Gut Check on Stem Cells
ABC: Is President Bush bucking the Stem Cell Trend?
Maybe. Either that or he’s on the leading edge of ethical developments in science.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:27 am Comments (1) on Thursday, June 21, 2007
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June 21st, 2007 at 11:32 pm
The story is slanted.
Stem cell research is great! It has already produced good results. Just last week scientists reproduced experiments that showed they could produce pluripotent stem cells from adult human skin cells. This is not far from being able to do great things like grow tooth buds and kidneys and hearts for implantation, plus the promise for treatment of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and diabetes. And it doesn’t involve killing a baby, unlike embryonic stem cell research.
Embryonic stem cell research, on the other hand, has not produced good results, only uncontrollable cancers. Plus in order to create new lines of embryonic stem cells you have to take the embryonic stage of a human being and harvest them, turn this child into a sort of crop or an experimental animal, even less than a slave or a victim of murder. Chew on that for a while and tell me if there is any way you can find it to be anything but murder most foul, about as repulsive as cannibalism or necrophilia.
If pollsters ask questions about stem cells one way, they’ll get the answer they want. But if they were to ask “do you support federal funding using your tax dollars for unproven embryonic stem cell research if it requires living human embryos to be killed and harvested for their cells?” they would get a very different answer.