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Inconvenient Facts About Stem-Cell Research

AliveInHim Wrote: Aug 27, 2010 11:48 AM
Robert indeed we DO know that embryonic stem cell research hasn't shown to be anything but an illusion. The medical researchers who support this anyway aren't in hysteria over a lack of funding, they're in denial about reality. Using adult stem cells, and the stem cells from a baby's umbilical cord, have indeed proven useful in treating conditions. Look it up. Still, if that embryo isn't human, what then is he, and what possible moral justification is there to use his body for another's benefit without either his knowledge nor consent? Per your argument that eagles are endangered and people aren't, I thought that AGW was going to be the death of us all anyway! In any case, 'endangerment' is not the issue. 'Humanity' is-and...

When he announced his policy expanding federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, President Barack Obama was not timid about proclaiming its benefits. It would, he announced, hasten "a day when words like 'terminal' and 'incurable' are finally retired from our vocabulary."

You thought Obama wanted to establish death panels? Actually, he seems to think he can confer immortality.

That announcement, made in March of last year, dismantled the limits imposed by the Bush administration. The change, in Obama's view, was a triumph over ignorance and ideology.

His executive order was, the president claimed, "about protecting free and open inquiry" and letting scientists "do...