Do we have to kill them?
Why is it that a majority of politicians and many scientists think that they must kill children?
On Thursday, the US House of Representatives voted 253-174 to pass a bill for taxpayer funding of stem-cell research. While still short of the majority needed to overturn the President’s veto, should it also pass the Senate, the position of the Reps simply makes no sense.
Why are we throwing valuable taxpayer dollars at a solution that lacks foundational value and respect for human life — specifically when other alternatives exist that are more viable and can provide real therapies and cures without the ethical concerns?
There are currently over 70 treatments being performed with adult stem-cells. Further, new research shows that stem-cells from amniotic fluid hold as much, if not better, promise as embryonic stem-cells.
One of the items on the 100-hour agenda was “ethics reform”. I just don’t see how you can talk about ethics reform when one of the things you are promoting is the support of unethical use of human beings for scientific research.
And, why is it that there can be such overwhelming evidence of the problems of embryonic stem-cells with so little change in the results of research that is known, but still such a huge push for taxpayer funding of this dangerous and near-futile research? Of course, there is the matter of the mass media ignoring it / not reporting it.
Related: Catholic Church Backs Stem-Cell Research
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How is using frozen embryos, created in a petri-dish, and which will be discarded in any case, killing children. I don’t see the logic in this and I certainly don’t see the biblical evidence for such a rationale. Isn’t it truly pro-life to care for the living over the frozen embryo?
Bob Cornwall said this on January 11th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
First off, how is it pro-life to freeze an embryo? Second, how is it pro-life to create embryos for the sake of destroying them?
The fact of the matter is that an embryo, no matter how or why it was created, is a human life.
Kill an embryo, kill a child.
So, along come those who say … it’s a “frozen embryo … which will be discarded in any case”. Are the objections supposed to dissolve when the dignity due human life is disregarded?
I fail to see the logic in that.
When we use human beings for parts, we put at risk no less than our own humanity.
Matt said this on January 12th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Well said, Matt.
For the record, Bob, an embryo is a human being in his/her first stages of development, so it is destroying human life.
Not only is embryonic stem cell research unethical, it hasn’t even been shown to have any promise. Adult stem cells, on the other hand, DO show promise, and there’s no moral problem with it. Why is this alternative being ignored?
Karen said this on January 14th, 2007 at 5:05 pm