No. The fear is scientist will create life in vitro for the purpose of destroying it to get the cells. They say there are 400,000 frozen embryos, already fertilized, in storage. Bush wants to let people adopt them. So far, under the snowflake program, 81 children have been adopted and are now alive. That's such a tiny fraction of the 400k that it's not realistic. The problem is the frozen discarded embryos might not suffice, so they might need to create fresh ones. They might also want to create embryos with known genetic defects so they can understand it better and cure that defect. I'm not even sure if I have a problem with that but it does sound creepy and I can understand why people think it's morally wrong.
On 7/21/06, Dana Tierney wrote: > I have not said anything about stem cells because I've been busy and because, > to be honest, I did not exect any kind of legislation to ever pass to get to > the veto stage. > > But here we are, andmy question is -- the opposition to stem cell research > comes from some secret conviction that if it is allowed women will > deliberately conceive so they can sell the fetuses? Is that it? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:5/messageid:211622 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
