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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (14160)	8/13/2001 7:25:54 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

He has established -- morally, politically and ethically -- the principle that it is permissible to experiment on a living component of the human race, even for the presumed benefit of other members of the human race. I'm not sure I would the stem cells in these experiments "a living component of the human race". An embryo is in my opinion a living human. But my understanding of the stem cell research is that it is done on what remains from already destroyed embryos. If the embryos are destoryed to create the stem cells for research then it is murder to get research material but not an experiment on a living human. Research on stem cells from the 60 lines that have been created in the past doesn't kill any new embyos but still feels wrong to me. Actually Bush didn't open a door to this. Such experiments happend before Bush (and where federally funded under Clinton) and experiments on new stem cell lines will still happen, they just will not get federally funded. This aspect seems mostly ignored by both sides of the issue. If Bush had decided on zero federal funding, then ebryonic stem cell research would still happen. Not many people at all have argued for outlawing the research of even the creation of new embryos for research purposes. Tim