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

To: epicure who wrote (21398)	8/10/2001 4:22:58 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 82486

Elsewhere on the apoplectic stem cell front, a couple local legislators came up with this one: Invoking the slippery slope that led to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, Rep. Steve Freese said today that human embryos must be protected from stem cell research or other forms of destruction. Freese, R-Dodgeville, and Sen. Bob Welch, R-Redgranite, will introduce the Human Embryo Protection Act, which would ban not only stem cell research in Wisconsin but the destruction of any embryo outside of the womb. The legislation would also create a study committee aimed at the "adoption" of unused embryos and the regulation of infertility clinics to reduce the number of unused embryos. Freese said there is a big demand for embryos and each one should find a good home. "The Nazi Holocaust arose from small beginnings," Freese said. "Technology has been advancing incredibly fast ... Clearly, we need to have a debate." Freese compared the scientific arguments for embryonic stem cell research to the propaganda in Nazi Germany that led to the extermination of millions in the 1930s and 1940s. Asked how Holocaust survivors might react to his analogy, Freese said, "If you ask them, they'd say I'd never want to see that happen to another human being anywhere. We have a very specific class of individuals who are in the very earliest stage of life." This being a liberal rag, the reporter went off and contacted some Jewish source on the Holocaust thing. As you might expect, they didn't much hold with that particular comparison.