Stem Sell......
at least that is what the media is doing trying to sell embryonic stem cell research.

So far, yesterday, the research managed to rob stem cells from rat embryos, thus killing the future population of healthy rats, to help an aged rat to walk better. By extrapolation, what they are saying is....we want to take away the life of human embryos and the potential for a healthy normal child to grow up in order to give their cells to someone who has been injured or become aged.

Am I against stem cell research or usage? No, but much research is already being done using adult stem cells from the eventual user and some early stem cells from umbilical tissue. I have a sister-in-law who is going to have her stem cells harvested, her cancerous cells removed, and the stem cells replanted within her own body. The rejection factor for the new cells should be very minimal, because they are, after all, her stem cells.

The impact of killing unborn children has already been felt in our country. Since 1970, we have lost potential population and workers in the millions. Is it no wonder that our Social Security System is bankrupt, when we haven't allowed for the natural production of new laborers to pay into the system to help the elderly, who are reaching Social Security age now?

Not to mention that the killing of unborn children flies in the face of the commandment against murder, which is the premeditated taking of another's life. Even the courts have realized that the killing of a pregnant mother with her unborn infant becomes two counts of murder. When will the Supreme Court reverse its stand that unborn children are not humans at all?