Two North Carolina bishops oppose state funding of stem cell research.
Roman Catholic Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the diocese of Raleigh has written a letter to members of the N.C. House Committee on Science and Technology opposing the draft of a bill in the General Assembly that would publicly fund embyronic stem cell research, Yonat Shimron reports.
The letter, which he co-signed with Bishop Peter J. Jugis of the diocese of Charlotte, reiterates the Catholic teaching that embryos constitute human life.
Bishops Burbidge and Jugis said they supported adult and umbilical cord blood stem cell research.
"We stand ready to mobilize these citizens and their like-minded supporters of other beliefs and traditions to contact their legislators opposing this bill should it advance beyond the House Committee on Science and Technology," the two bishops wrote.
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Re: Bishops on stem cells
I don't support government-funded stem cell research, not because I think that God cares either way, but because that's simply not that responsibility of government. Tax money is the publics money, not the property of the government. It should only be spent on those things that are absolutely essential, and which benefit us all. Even though I disagree with the Bishops as to whether or not stem cell research is immoral, I agree that their tax money should not be spent on something that they are morally opposed to.