Oh, well, it looks as if embryonic stem cell "research" is illegal in the US after all, since it involves federal funding of the destruction of embryonic human beings, contrary to a ban proposed, it is true, by a Republican, but passed by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by Jimmy Carter.
So those who engage in these activities are just going to have to take up adult and cord blood stem cell research instead. Which actually works. Even if it does not offend the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church that educated a very great many of those practitioners, snivelling ingrates that they are.
Meanwhile, if we cannot afford Avastin (as a gastric spastic, I feel strongly about these things), then how come we can afford homeopathy, or IVF, or, for that matter, embryonic stem cell "research"? The second works so rarely that it would simply never be funded by the NHS if it were anything else, while the other two do not work at all, and are nothing more than pseudo-science, superstitious in one case, politically ideological, like the pseudo-science in the Soviet Union, in the other.
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Good points.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the issue of offending the Catholic Church, I think many people are worried that if embryos are given legal protection, it puts the theories behind legal abortion ( based, as they must be, on the idea that the unborn are not human persons, or at least not human persons worthy of the right to life) in jeopardy.
It is somewhat similar to the efforts by some to get rid of laws recognizing fetuses as victims of crimes.