Professor Adriano Bompiani, director of the Paul VI International Center of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, said today: «In the ambit of spontaneous abortion, if the embryo is still vital at the cellular level, there is no difficulty.»
It is a case analogous to that of the transplantation of organs taken from a cadaver, he explained.
In order to meet proper moral criteria for extracting organs or cells from the fetus, at least two conditions are required, he said.
First of all, «explicit maternal permission,» Bompiani told a press conference at Vatican Radio headquarters.
Second, «there must be no doubt whatsoever that the miscarriage was not provoked,» he said.
