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NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research
sciencehabit writes "Responding to a court order issued a week ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday ordered intramural researchers studying human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to shut down their experiments. NIH's action — probably unprecedented in its history — is a response to a preliminary injunction on 23 August from US District Judge Royce Lamberth. The judge ruled that the Obama policy allowing NIH funding to be used to study hESC lines violates a law prohibiting the use of federal funds to destroy embryos."
Meh. Why don't we just study with cosmos with proven telescope technology and don't try anything else. Why don't we just stop trying new things all together. It's a couple of fucking cells. They would thrown in the garbage otherwise.
The Nazis took great leaps forward in science and medicine, but look who they experimented on in the process. I'm just saying...
Life is not for the lazy.
Strange since funding for embryonic stem cell research and conducting embryonic stem cell research has been hampered by political posturing for decades.
moron.
And I find the use of the word just as absurd when it’s done so as to exclude by definition all valid scientific research that’s been done since Darwin.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
I have no problem with niggers going to college, just as long as my tax money isn't used for it. I have no problem with the military, but just make sure my tax money doesn't support it. Sorry bozo, after uncle sam takes his, its his to spend as he pleases. Just be glad he ain't taking more.
Why not not make extra babiez? I personally know a couple that requested that. The doctor thought it was unusual, but they had him do it anyway. Now their child will be born soon and they have a clean conscience.
The government can't save you.
Good for you. You figured it out. Unlike the next guy.
Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
You mean like charging crack whores and meth freaks with child endangerment for doing drugs while pregnant? Yeah sure, I'm for that, I mean if you're asking for my opinion.
As for general miscarriages ... well that is kind of tough to say. After all, my wife miscarried even though she wasn't doing drugs or alcohol.
The ethics of being a human would say that how we treat the smallest, weakest, most defenseless of our society is how we should be measured.
And if you're not vocal for the voice that cannot be heard, what does that say about you as a human?
As for slippery slopes go, being ethical is not slippery at all. It is the most solid ground one can stand on. Questioning not if we can do something but rather if we SHOULD do something is something that is lost in today's world. And the quote makes that point, from a movie that came from a book that is very much about ETHICS of science. You should read the book.
Would you rather me quote from a video game? ;)
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Wait, what? The parent mentioned religion, but not morals. I'm atheist but morally opposed to destroying embryos.
Right! Destroying embryos for the betterment of humanity which would just simply be destroyed anyway is a moral outraged.
I for one am morally opposed to the idiocy of people like you. Thou shall not take a life, despite it not being a life yet, and despite the life being taken regardless if humanity may gain some wonderful scientific breakthrough that could save thousands of lives.
I mean for fucks sake even the religious believe in the ultimate sacrifice, that all your sins are forgiven if you give your life to save another. Who are you to morally object to absolution provided to this embryo, a reject of an IVF treatment which will never get beyond the embryonic stage anyway, much less live a so called life. If you for even a moment think that by stopping embryonic research you are saving a life you are sorely mistaken and possibly bordering on outright ignorance.