Views

• Catholic Teaching

  • Full rights from the moment of conception
  • must be treated with dignity
  • "It is immoral to produce human embryos intended for exploitation"
• Church of England

  • embryo research may be permissible as long as the intention is to alleviate human suffering
  • up until 14 day as that is when they believe personhood begins
• Church of Ireland

  • not morally right
  • use umbilical cord as an alternative
• Could lead to slippery slope

  1994 use eggs of aborted foetuses

  2008 'hybrid' embryos