{"id":2321,"date":"2005-06-02T22:32:52","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T02:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2008-01-22T18:43:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T22:43:51","slug":"church-has-not-taken-a-position-on-the-issue-of-embryonic-stem-cell-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/06\/church-has-not-taken-a-position-on-the-issue-of-embryonic-stem-cell-research\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church &#8220;has not taken a position on the issue of embryonic stem cell research&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.lds.org\/ldsnewsroom\/eng\/commentary\/embryonic-stem-cell-research\">The church has corrected a newspaper<\/a> that had written, &#8220;Mormons, for example, oppose abortion, but find some embryonic stem cell research morally acceptable,&#8221; with the clarification that, &#8220;the Church has not taken a position on the issue of embryonic stem cell research.&#8221;   They also note that the church has no official position on the moment human life begins.   <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the church&#8217;s August 2001 <a href=\"http:\/\/lds.about.com\/library\/bl\/faq\/blstemcell.htm\">&#8220;Apostles have not taken a position&#8221;<\/a> statement about stem cell research,  which many interpreted as providing tentative support for embryonic stem cell research, has been removed from the church&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church has corrected a newspaper that had written, &#8220;Mormons, for example, oppose abortion, but find some embryonic stem cell research morally acceptable,&#8221; with the clarification that, &#8220;the Church has not taken a position on the issue of embryonic stem cell research.&#8221; They also note that the church has no official position on the moment human life begins. Additionally, the church&#8217;s August 2001 &#8220;Apostles have not taken a position&#8221; statement about stem cell research, which many interpreted as providing tentative support for embryonic stem cell research, has been removed from the church&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}