Yes, yes, yes! We must not destroy all those useless fertilized eggs. We should let them perish on their own and then we should have an elaborate funeral and bury them in a tiny little plot of earth. AND we must not allow abortion at ANY cost. Thank you Jesus! Hallelujah!
Dan, who always gives great credence to anything authored by a reverend. At 06:15 PM 4/7/2007 -0700, Jim Lubin said something that elicited my response: > >SIX STEM CELL FACTS > > > >The public discussion of human embryo research has too often lacked >intellectual honesty, which has only compounded the confusion of an issue of >great scientific and moral complexity, say Robert P. George professor of >jurisprudence at Princeton University and a member of the President's Council >on Bioethics and Rev. Thomas V. Berg, executive director of the Westchester >Institute for Ethics and the Human Person. > >Consequently, there are certain facts on which people on either side of the >moral debate should be able to agree, say George and Berg. For example: > * There is no "ban" on human embryonic stem cell (ESC) research in the > United States; the federal government has funded such research to the tune of > $130 million dollars since 2001, and the United States continues to be the > international leader in the field. > * We are a long way away from therapies derived from embryonic stem cells; > many leading stem cell researchers have echoed the fact that there may be no > breakthrough any time soon. > * Standard embryology texts insist that from the zygote (single-cell > embryo) stage forward there exists a new living member of the species homo > sapiens that has the active potential to develop by an internally directed > process towards maturity. > > >Also: > * There are non-controversial alternatives worth exploring; such as the > reprogramming of ordinary somatic (body) cells, the derivation of stem cells > from amniotic fluid, and (assuming that it can be shown that the product is > not an embryo), altered nuclear transfer. > * Concerns about embryo destruction are not only religious; but merely a > healthy respect for the human capacity for doing evil in pursuit of the good. > * The search for cures is not the only motive behind ESC research,; many > scientists are interested only in enhancing basic scientific knowledge of > such things as cell signaling, tissue growth and early human development. > > >Source: Robert P. George and Thomas V. Berg, "Six Stem Cell Facts," Wall >Street Journal, March 14, 2007. > >For text: > ><http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117384191108736444.html>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117384191108736444.html >
