Roman Catholic Church updates code on reproduction
The Roman Catholic Church slams the moral door on many modern reproductive technologies in a new "instruction" for researchers, medical personnel and married couples who want children.
The document, being released Friday, updates and expands church teachings, and gives the force of papal authority to strictures against embryonic stem cell research and abortion. It also says that efforts by infertile couples to adopt and implant frozen embryos is just as wrong as destroying embryos for stem cell research....