SINGAPORE Seminar deals with Church stand on bioethical issues

UCANews.com, 27 Feb 2009

SINGAPORE (UCAN) -- Organ donation, brain death, euthanasia and palliative care were matters brought up for clarification and discussion among Catholic health-care professionals in a Church-organized bioethics seminar.

Dominican Father David Garcia, a moral theologian, told seminar participants that according to Church teaching, organ donation is "praiseworthy" only if it is an act of charity and self-giving. It is not to be demeaned by trading, he stressed.

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