I heard on the news today that President Obama had, as one of his first moves in office, given the green light for embryonic stem cells to be freely used in medical research. I am deeply angered by this. If one truly believes that life starts at conception and that, therefore, the embryo is actually a real human being and not a mass of cells that represents some sort of potential for life, then this presidential move is absolutely no different than Hitler's medical experiments on the Jews. This move on the part of the Obama administration (the most pro-abortion in the history of the States) was completely expected, but I am still awed by the rapid nature of these changes. How many days until he ushers in the Freedom of Choice Act repealing the bans on partial birth abortion (essentially infanticide)? I am completely aware that there are far more eloquent commentators than I on the new era that dawned on Tuesday, but I am angered and felt that this slight departure from the usual family blog fare was justified. Here is a clip for your contemplation.
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medical research has become a total joke. (well, you know how i feel about that.) in 150 years people are going to look back on how we treated, say, cancer, as equally barbaric to bloodletting. so much research money is totally wasted on pc (and therefore fundable) but ultimately useless projects. and funnily enough it is already evident that embryonic stem cell research (as opposed to adult or cord blood stem cells) is likely to be a big fat bust, too. aaargh.
I agree. As far as I have read there has been very little if any success with embryonic stem cells whereas the advances made with cord blood and adult stem cells are extremely encouraging. brave new world, indeed.
p.s. i looked into banking cord blood when joe was born but the cost was astronomical...
No different than medical experimentation on the jews? What a freaking joke! There are a LOT of differences between embryonic stem cell research and the experimentation that was done to the jews.
You need to do some research on the haulocaust- and when you do that you need to pay attention to the atrocities he committed NOT ONLY on the Jewish people, but also on Polish people, and children and adults that had special needs or mental disorders (such as schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, dissoasociative identity disorder, etc). To even put a embryo (which is never let grow past 100 CELLS- which means it doesn't have a brain, heart, nervous system- it is LITERALLY just a group of cells- embryonic stem cells are the cells that are present BEFORE they begin to function in order to create a life form) and a HUMAN BEING who is breathing and can FEEL the things happening shows that you have a serious lack of empathy. To put Obama online with someone who committed disgusting atrocities and ordered the genocide of over 5 million people all together is crass to say the least. Clearly, you have no clue what you are talking about.
Dear April, Actually I have done lots of reading on the Holocaust and the atrocities committed by Hitler upon Jews and many others. And, still, I feel there is no difference between those atrocities and medical experimentation on human embryos. Perhaps the only difference is that Obama is not as fully aware of what he is doing as Hitler was. I believe, and am fully supported by the medical community, that life begins at conception; thus, the embryo is not a potential human life but an actual human life. The only difference is that we can't see it as a human life in the way that I can recognise your life as fully human. If one believes that human life begins at conception and that there is no point after conception that we suddenly become human then medical experimentation on human embryos (which never allows for that embryo to grow and live and be born) is the same as medical experimentaion on human beings that results in death. I believe that that sort of thing is crass, to say the least.
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