In his recent book Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II airs his views on human reproduction. The pity is that he ignores most of modern genetics and embryology.
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Godfrey, J. The Pope and the ontogeny of persons. Nature 373, 100 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/373100a0
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