October 14, 2009
Skin isn't dead babies
I'm very interested in stem cell stuff.
I don't believe in a god so my opposition to embryonic stem cells comes from my revulsion at creating life only to experiment on it and not any religious motivations.
It seems like the top of the slippery slope that leads to experimenting on people.
Dr. Mengele with a smiley face.
I look closely at every stem cell breakthrough to see if they're using embryonic ones and so far I haven't seen any example of using embryonic stem cells, it's always a different type.
Like this one I saw via Instapundit
Scientists at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have successfully produced liver cells from patients' skin cells opening the possibility of treating a wide range of diseases that affect liver function.
Whether from amniotic fluid, spinal fluid or as this case, from skin cells, we can get useful stem cells without destroying embryos and that's a good thing.
I don't see any absolute morals anywhere, what I find repulsive has been found normal and even moral (killing your own babies was moral to followers of Baal for instance), in America we get to decide our ethics.
And I don't like creating human life to experiment on it. I'm glad we don't have to.
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I don't believe in a god so my opposition to embryonic stem cells comes from my revulsion at creating life only to experiment on it and not any religious motivations.
It seems like the top of the slippery slope that leads to experimenting on people.
Dr. Mengele with a smiley face.
I look closely at every stem cell breakthrough to see if they're using embryonic ones and so far I haven't seen any example of using embryonic stem cells, it's always a different type.
Like this one I saw via Instapundit
Scientists at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have successfully produced liver cells from patients' skin cells opening the possibility of treating a wide range of diseases that affect liver function.
Whether from amniotic fluid, spinal fluid or as this case, from skin cells, we can get useful stem cells without destroying embryos and that's a good thing.
I don't see any absolute morals anywhere, what I find repulsive has been found normal and even moral (killing your own babies was moral to followers of Baal for instance), in America we get to decide our ethics.
And I don't like creating human life to experiment on it. I'm glad we don't have to.
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Stem cell research has always been primarily about using cells from adults. Most of their successes have come from that direction. The embryo la-de-da was mainly a Dem political attack on Bush when he outlawed it for anti-abortion reasons.
Posted by: Dick Stanley at October 14, 2009 08:17 AM (xMwJw)
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But they were going to allow Christopher Reeve to walk!!!! And fix Parkinson's for Michael J. Fox!!!!!
He didn't outlaw it, he restricted the lines you could get federal funding to work on.
He was the first President to okay any federal funding for it.
He didn't outlaw it, he restricted the lines you could get federal funding to work on.
He was the first President to okay any federal funding for it.
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