Apparently, on Monday, Obama will undo a legitimate good deed done by Bush. Read all about it.
Bush made some big mistakes. The stem cell funding/research restriction was not one of them. Note: The restrictions weren’t even a ban (as pointed out by Jennifer Lahl at this link); federal and private funds were still doled out; it essentially amounted to a moratorium on created further lines – more human lives, who would be alive for the sole purpose of serving other ends. Sounds a lot like the abolition of man to me.
The word is “Embryonic stem cells offer promising results.” But so far, even with years of research, that’s it: a promise. I am tired of promises. Science sure is investing a lot of faith in these small humans. They’re even better politicians and PR people than they are scientists.
I wonder if the cure for Parkinson’s was known to be available simply by dismembering infants for their magical cells, if that would garner as much support as embryonic stem cell research. Of course, we’ve never gotten to clinical trials for that, so that’d be ridiculous to assume. Pardon me.
Again, the issue is not consequences. Whatever spinal injury, Parkinsons, diabetes, etc. patients who might benefit from embryonic stem cells will live, but not without blood on their hands.
The issue is the nature of the embryo – that thing you’re dicing up in a Petri dish.
Oh, and, please excuse me, I simply forgot that we’ve got federal dollars to spare.
Lord help us.
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