Mission and Public Affairs Council2019-09-252019-09-252015-10-142003http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/228406"1. This paper offers some reflections on the science, theology and morality of using human embryos for therapeutic research purposes. It draws on previous papers by the Board for Social Responsibility produced for briefing purposes during the late 1990s and early 2000s. It also uses material from the Annual Report of the Ethical Investment Advisory Group, which is currently considering the investment policy of the Church towards companies which engage in stem cell research. Appendix One lists previous Synodical debates on the subject, and Appendix Two lists Board responses to relevant consultations. Deliberately, this paper does not come to specific policy conclusions which, with fast-moving technical developments, can become easily outdated. Rather, it aims to explore the perspectives Christians have brought to the ongoing debate, and to offer a framework of ethical reasoning which will enable a continued contribution in the light of our fundamental convictions about God and the humankind he so lovingly created."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderbioethicschurchhuman embryochristian perspectiveshuman lifeReligious ethicsMethods of ethicsPhilosophical ethicsBioethicsChristian denominationsPostprint