Can't stop it?

Someone recently said “the church had no better chance to stop research into regenerative medicine than it had centuries ago in trying to stop Copernicus and Galileo from positing that the earth revolved around the sun.”

The analogy is flawed (as is the history).

A better analogy would be that the Church has no better chance of stopping embryonic stem cell exploitation than it has always had of stopping fornication.

It will never be stopped entirely (until our Lord returns) and could become more widespread from time to time. But it is also something that can be reduced through the mechanisms of society, mechanisms that can be affected by the efforts of conscientious people inside and outside the Church.

As people of faith and pilgrims on this earth, we are bound to make this effort. We must stand and work on behalf of the truth, on behalf of the tiniest human lives this so-called research threatens, and on behalf of the people whose suffering is being exploited by misguided researchers.