The Bishops of Malta and Gozo, along with the Bishops members of the Commission of the Bishops Conferences of the European Community (COMECE), are dismayed with the European Parliament’s decision to ask the European Union to fund the research about human embryos and human embryonic stem cells.
“Together with the COMECE Bishops we are supportive of an effective EU research policy in the service of the common good. However, we are concerned that the European Parliament expressed itself in favour of research on human embryos and human embryonic stem cells when in various member states of the EU, among them Malta, this type of research is not acceptable for ethical and moral reasons which touch on the protection of life and human dignity,” the bishops said in a press statement.
According to the bishops, with such a decision, the Union would interfere with delicate decisions which are exclusively the competence of each member state and therefore would also be against the principle of subsidiarity.
“In no case can the Church agree with the funding of research on human embryos and human embryonic cells. The Church holds not only that such funding should not be allowed, but also that it is totally excluded”, the statement stated.
The bishops thanked all those who, in the EU institutions, promote values “which reflect the values that the Maltese people have always had at heart especially as regards human life and dignity”.
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