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The Vatican has over recent decades issued blanket condemnations of artificial methods of birth control, in-vitro fertilization, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, and human embryonic stem cell research.
FORBES: Venter and the Vatican
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But Josephine Quintavalle, director of Comment on Reproductive Ethics (Core), which opposes embryonic stem cell therapies, dismissed the research as "highly speculative".
BBC: Green light for US stem cell work
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So the controversy over government funding of embryonic stem cell research quickly reaches into the unregulated domain of reproductive medicine.
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