Voting on embryonic stem cell research
Here’s the latest from the AP…
Senator Wants Swift Vote on Stem Cell Bill
Compare what the supporters of this bill are saying with some of the previous stories we’ve written about on stem cell research.
recent news stories on stem cell research…
I read a statistic recently that stated 90% of teens do not believe in absolute truth. Apparently many of our representatives do not believe in it either.
** Update 5/31 **
This BreakPoint commentary brings up some more good points:
Cloning for Dollars - Human Life as a Commodity
In its May 23 edition [Investor’s Business Daily], the publication noted that there have been more than 250 clinical trials using adult stem cells. These trials have produced eighty therapies. One of these enabled a Korean woman who had been paralyzed for twenty years to get out of her wheelchair and take a few steps. This was after only six weeks of the treatment.
To date, there have been—read closely—no clinical trials and no therapies produced by embryonic stem-cell research. Unlike embryonic stem-cell research, obtaining adult stem cells doesn’t require destroying human embryos.
There’s more…
…we are creating a class of human beings whose sole purpose is to provide the rest of us with spare body parts. That there’s little evidence that this monstrosity will even work is fittingly ironic.
This is why we need to support the president’s policy and to work to educate Congress. Human life is sacred, not something to be manufactured, used, and thrown away. What matters is doing right by life itself—and we can start by not believing everything we hear on the news.
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