Religious row over stem cell work

From an article of the same title BBCNews.com:

Scientists have condemned a leading Catholic cardinal's calls for those who carry out embryonic stem cell research to be excommunicated. Vatican-based Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo told a Catholic magazine such research was "the same as abortion". He said excommunication should apply to "all women, doctors and researchers who eliminate embryos"... But Dr Stephen Minger, leading stem cell expert at Kings College London, said: "Having been raised a Catholic, I found this stance really outrageous. "Are they going to excommunicate IVF doctors, nurses and embryologists who routinely put millions of embryos down the sink every year throughout the world? "It is more ethical to use embryos that are going to be destroyed anyway for the general benefit of mankind than simply putting them down the sink."