From other Sources associated with the Magisterium

Intervention of the permanent observer of the Holy See at the UN Organization in Geneva on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 12, 2008)

Why the Concept of Brain Death is Valid as a Definition of Death - PDF (Pontifical Academy of Sciences 2008)

The Hope of Salvation for Infants who Die without being Baptised -- International Theological Commission (April 2007)

Intervention of the Holy See at the Ordinary Session of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- H.E. MSGR. Silvano M. Tomasi (March, 23 2007)

Christian Conscience in Support of the Right to Life -- Pontifical Academy for Life (February 2007)

Catholics and non-Catholics joining forces -- Bishop Elio Sgreccia, Pontifical Academy for Life (February 2002)

Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells -- Pontifical Academy for Life (August 25, 2000)

Speech to Pontifical Academy for Life -- Archbishop Tauran (February 2000)

Consistory of Cardinals, April 4-7, 1991, on Threats to Human Life (with Address by Cardinal Ratzinger)

Statement on Human Cloning -- Pontifical Academy for Life

Book on Identity and Status of the Human Embryo -- Pontifical Academy for Life

Identity and Status of the Human Embryo (Paper from the Center for Bioethics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, June 22, 1989)--Full text

RU486 -- Chemical abortion (Editorial, L'Osservatore Romano)

The Rights of the Unborn Child and Artificial Procreation -- Center for Bioethics and Human Rights, University of Lecce (1994)

Holy See Delegation's Address to Fourth World Conference on Women -- Mary Ann Glendon (September 5, 1995)

Holy See's official position at Beijing Conference on Women (August 25, 1995)

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