Anastasia writes:
Just supposing the majority of the christian opposition has no scientific knowledge, the Biblical law they are following is quite simply 'thou shalt not kill'.
Kill what?
Is ignorance of science
and the Bible a sufficient excuse to condemn people to an earlier death than necessary? Those precious excess embryos are simply flushed down the toilet. This is the policy of our Fundamentalist President Bush and his religious fanatic lackeys, they would rather see the embryos destroyed than aid science to cure disease.
What is the alternative? To see such extra embryos forcibly implanted? To make artifical insemination illegal?
Today they are trashed. What is the moral message?
No, I can't imagine anyone being so callous. There are those who do not seek medical treatment for themselves because of religious views such as the above, but I have not heard of them interfering with the rights of others to seek treatment, or of science to discover cures. You could be right, of course, but I don't imagine the majority of folk to base their opposition to stem cell research on that. Since I am not a scientist I prefer to end this part of the topic here...and to hope that one of the alternative means of harvesting stem cells proves viable so that we no longer have this dilemma.
What is happening right here in the USA, right now?
They
are this callous, right here, right now.
Edited by anglagard, : Clarity