Pre-implanted embryos have right to life, pope says
In vitro procedure opposed because birth often not the goal
By Nicole Winfield
The Associated Press

Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI said Monday that embryos developed for in vitro fertilization deserve the same right to life as fetuses, children and adults - and that that right extends to embryos even before they are transferred into a woman's womb.

The Vatican has long held that human life begins at conception, but Benedict's comments were significant because he specified that even an embryo in its earliest stages - when it is just a few cells - is just as much a human life as an older being. the rest