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By FRANCES D'EMILIO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER


VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II on Monday called for more opposition to laws he sees as threatening families based on traditional marriage, urged a vast mobilization of the public worldwide to combat hunger and restated the Catholic church's ban on embryo stem cell use.
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John Paul asserted that the Church's opposition, "supported by reason and science," to abortion, assisted procreation and scientific research on human embryonic stem cells was clear.

In an obvious reference to laws in several countries or localities permitting marriage between homosexuals or equating the social rights of unwed couples to married ones, John Paul said that in some countries, the family's "natural structure" is challenged.

Families, he said, "must necessarily be that of a union between a man and a woman founded on marriage."
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