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Originally Posted by ok, ok,....I get it
noooo they are god's chosen ones.....surely they will never get a disease....
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I think you're confusing Catholics with Jews.
The Catholic Church doesn't have a lot of influence in U.S. politics anyway. They are not a predominantly Catholic country. Although, they have their fair share of Protestant and Calvinist wingnuts who will be opposed to stem cell research, it certainly won't be because of what the Pope says. Most of them dislike the Catholic Church just as much as atheists.
The thing that bugs me most about this issue is that people still don't seem to realize that there are alternative sources to stem cells than just purposely aborted embryos and a big part of the research is aimed at finding alternative sources. There's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater (pun intended).