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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Bush choose to allow the stem cell strands already in use to continue to be used. You can't bring that embryonic life back. He was being pragmatic. I don't support China's harvesting of organs from condemned prisoner for use in transplant operations. If I could stop the practice I would. But having done that I wouldn't deny someone a life saving organ if one was still available from before the practice was outlawed.
I believe that an embryo is the beginning of a human life. It shouldn't be treated as a meaningless collection of cells. I understand the value I put on an embryo is not shared by everyone in society. That being said, I don't want my tax dollars used in support of research that destroys a viable embryo.
I honestly think even if Bush didn't hold that same view of an embryo he would have been wrong to fund something with tax dollars that a significant amount of tax payers found offensive and/or immoral.
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A "significant amount of tax payers" think that eating meat is "offensive and/or immoral. A significant amount of tax payers also think war is immoral. Just saying. Government's job is to show leadership, not be the toadies of the noisiest special interest group.
I respect your opinion regarding an embryo. However, that isn't what we're talking about. In fact, an actual embryo would be useless for harvesting stem cells--because cells have begun to differentiate. What we're talking about is a collection of undifferentiated cells. If you choose to see that as a human being, fine. I happen to disagree, but I do at least agree that it can be a matter of opinion.
I just think that if a blastocyst really is a person, then mass murder is being committed daily at fertility clinics across the nation. Whether it's federally funded is political doublespeak, and utterly beside the point. Do we allow murder as long as it's not "federally funded"? Or, to put it another way, as long as it doesn't affect us directly? Clearly, even those opposed to stem cell research don't see it as being in the same moral category as murder. The level of outrage just doesn't match.