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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (16608)	6/13/2001 7:30:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

WASHINGTON, June 12 — A battle is raging within the Bush administration over whether to prohibit federal support for biomedical research that uses cells derived from human embryos, federal officials say. I am less opposed to the use of such stem cells then I am to abortion because there use isn't causeing any death its just IMO the moral equivilent of doing experiments on the body parts of people who where killed. It gives me a bad feeling but I can't at this time say it is definitly some sort of injustice. If the embryos were destroyed for this purpose then it is the destruction of the embryos that I would be against. In most cases I understand the embryos were destroyed for other reasons ("extra" embryos from fertility clinics). It has some simularities in my mind to a hypothetical situation where we found data that was obtained from Nazi experiments in concentration camps to help save lives or make people healthier. Tim