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Human Embryo Stem Cell Research Allowed

Posted by Hemos on from the the-boys-from-brazil dept.

glitch13 writes "This article from MSNBC discusses the federal go-ahead (read: money) to start research on stem cells from human embryos."

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  1. Re:About time by Valdrax · · Score: 3

    I wonder what those people who exhorted president Bush to cut off funding for embryo research will say when they hit seventy and start forgetting where they live? I'll bet you they run right off to other countries and get their treatments. After all it isn't sinful if the neighbors don't know. Nonsense. Some of us have higher ethics that don't boil down to "what everyone else thinks." There's something just wrong about mining dead babies for medical treatments. It's somewhere lower that Niven's "corpscicle" raiding, but I'm sure that society will come up with the same morally indifferent excuses if this kind of research continues. I'm appalled by this kind of research. This is just a step below "organlegging."

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