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But I do think they need to find a better way to get stem-cells.
adult stem cells, the ones already allowed, have a lot of promise.
no one, anywhere, has achieved anything with fetal stem cells. They dont work. Stem cell research is just a smoke screen by the pro abortion folks.
On a side note, it is interesting to see, that people critical of the previous administration, failed to point out that adult stem cell research projects were well-funded, and were never opposed by the Bush Administration, or any of the GOP. In fact, George W. Bush gave a strong endorsement for the funding of such projects.
Stem cell research is just a smoke screen by the pro abortion folks.
Interesting. I'm confused about it from the other end - what could be more pro-life than finding cures for intractable diseases? I'm not asking to pick a fight, it's a sincere question.
Embryonic stem cells, perforce, come from a human embryo - created en masse for a fertility treatment. Typically, these are frozen, and then implanted 2-3 at a time until 1-2 takes hold.
You then have a problem of leftovers. The next couple doesn't want them in the grand majority of cases. So, what do you do with them? Do you throw them out in the trash? Do you hold on to them in the freezer until they are no longer implantable, before throwing them out on the forlorn hope someone that's had the entire procedure bomb on them tries with them? They are potential human life - a potential that will never be realized, an honest ethical dilemma, a form of the old save the one, or save the many hypotheticals.
Meanwhile, fundamentally, the abortion question is rather similar, hinging on the answer to the question of whose rights superceed whose - the unborn's right to life against the mother's right to self determination. There is a concern that should one question be answered in one way, the other must fall in line, regardless of the differentiation between them.
no one, anywhere, has achieved anything with fetal stem cells. They dont work.
Don't work because they don't work, or don't work because we haven't figured out yet how to make them work?
Empirical research is always the answer.
why waste money looking into fetal stem cells, which DONT WORK when you can look into adult stem cells, which DO and do not require the destruction of any embryos?
Seriously, this is what is being destroyed. Does it look like a person to you?