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U.N. Delays Debate on Cloning
hedpe2003 writes "'The General Assembly on Tuesday ducked for a year a polarizing debate over human cloning that has set the Bush administration against some allies like Britain and much of the world's scientific community.
All 191 United Nations members agree on a treaty to prohibit cloning human beings, but they are divided over whether to extend such a ban to stem cell and other research known as therapeutic cloning.
Opponents say total prohibition would block research on cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, spinal cord injuries and other conditions. The White House says that enough stem cells from human embryos exist for research and that cloning an embryo for any reason is unethical.
United States was happy to go along with the one-year consensus but would not alter its stance. 'We will continue to work for a total ban,' he said.'
I was just wondering what everyone thought about this. To tell the truth, I didn't know that the US was pushing so hard to ban stem cell research all together."
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Science is an okay thing when used properly in the knowledge of God but if we place science above our Creator then the results shall be futile.
God designed the world so that cloning humans is possible. God knows what He's doing. Therefore God wants us to clone humans.
If it's a choice between your survival or mine, take a wild guess where you rank.
...
Now try again.
Oh no, the "youre-wrong-because-im-really-selfish" argument again.
I thank God that my survival is *not* in your hands. It's in God's. And he's chosen to put an effective government in charge for my protection. Not you.
So, no... I won't "try again". You need to try again though.
eXPerimeNT(r)oll, version won, of course.
.controll just waved their 'magic' WAnD in front of lairIE/robbIE et AL, & 'stuff that matters' turned/weNT right into the nazis' payper liesense windows/gadgets, ala LeRegister.
the process has 'advanced' to transform bodIEs of regular folks into greed/fear/ego based puppets/ediots/droids. those slymebawls over at phonIE monIE
lookout bullow. there's nothing behind the ?pr? ?firm?/stock markup fraud 'curtain'. not even a little 'man'.
Take a good long hard look at where most of your stem cells come from before you open your selfish mouth next time.
Ofcourse, that's an awful picture. Nobody can deny that, although I have my doubts wether it's real or not.
But is it any worse than seeing a live animal suffer in labs? Is it any worse than sending criminals to the electric chair? Is it worse than war?
If a pedophile drugged and raped your 12-year-old daughter so she got pregnant, what would be your reaction?
Think about it.
Would you want her to be a 13-year-old mother who quit school to flip burgers so that she can support her child?
Would you want the rapists genes to be passed on?
Yea... liberating 51 million people, using expensive satellite-guided missiles to reduce civilian casulaties... what monsters they are.