
Should President Veto Embryonic Stem Cell Research?
Unequivocally, yes! Read about the issues at Lifeway Resources and tell me morally how we can kill another potential human being to just possibly help an adult human? Do we allow the removal of organs from living humans to transplant into other defective humans? Are we so callous that we want to have embryos used as a human parts house?
At the end of the Lifeway article, there is mention of the Snowflake organization which allows people to adopt the frozen embryos of other couples and have them implanted in the womb of a woman who couldn't have children another way. What do you think this creates in 9 months? See the picture of Seth Flowers, who was born to Troy and Kristy Flowers of Beaver, OK. Would you have rather had his embryonic stem cells used for research?
Newscasters want to leave the impression that because the U.S. House and Senate may pass bills to fund embryonic stell cell research and that 61% of Americans think it is morally acceptable, killing embryos to harvest their stem cells becomes moral. Don't we have any authoritative writings to allow us to discern morality? Of course, we do, and they are inspired by the Creator of all human life in The Bible.
A leading scientist, Dr. Francis Collins, Head of the Human Genome project and genetic physicist stated in an article for "Christianity Today":
"It is a classic example of a collision between two very important principles. One is the sanctity of human life and the other is our strong mandate as human beings to alleviate suffering and to treat terrible diseases like diabetes, Parkinson's, and spinal-cord injury. The very promising embryonic stem-cell research might potentially provide remarkable cures for those disorders. We don't know that, but it might. And at the same time, many people feel, I think justifiably, this type of research is taking liberties with the notion of the sanctity of human life, by manipulating cells derived from a human embryo."
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