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Bishops Hold Back Progress, Say Humanists

For Immediate Release - Contact: Fred Edwords at (202) 238-9088

(Washington, D.C., June 13, 2008) The American
Humanist Association denounced today's document issued by the United States’
Roman Catholic bishops in which the bishops "warned" against the "moral
dangers" of embryonic stem cell research. The document states that "no
commitment to a hoped-for 'greater good' can erase or diminish the wrong of
directly taking innocent human lives here and now."

In response, the American Humanist Association warned against the harm to