Religion & Law

The Witherspoon Institute's Neuhaus Colloquium has made available online the executive summary of its recently released statement, "The Obama Administration and the Treatment of Human Embryos" (here).  A bit:

. . . Shall we limit our ambitions, even at a price to ourselves? Shall we treat human beings in the embryonic stage as less than fully human because the embryonic human would be more useful to us dead than alive?

We believe these questions have clear answers. Every human being deserves to be treated with the same basic level of concern and regard that we owe to all members of the human family. If basic human equality means anything at all, it must mean that individuals deserve equal moral regard and legal protection in virtue of who they are, not because of their worth as judged by others according to their own needs and desires. . . .