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Jen
03-10-2009, 05:05 PM
Obama has lifted the ban on stem cell research (http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5293EZ20090310?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=22&sp=true).

Good idea? Bad idea? What do you guys think?

It should come as no surprise that I'm against stem cell research if it involves the creation and destruction of human life just for research. That's wrong. However, as long as abortion is legal, which may be a while with Obama in office, there's no more or less harm done to the innocent children who are already killed in abortions if they are used for medical research.

I think it creates a dependence on something evil, and that if there's a Hell, the researchers will likely end up in the same corner as Dr. Mengele, who did medical research on Jews in concentration camps, but research away.

It's a shame methods of harvesting stem cells that don't require killing can't be used.

Brad
03-10-2009, 05:09 PM
i think that originally, if a child died in birth the doctor could ask the mother if the child could be used in SCResearch, however to many fuckwit doctors asked the mothers right after their babies died so that was done away with to.

Jen
03-10-2009, 05:16 PM
Sad, because that's how it ought to be--like the organ donation program. Doctors have to find ways to approach women gently about this, though, and it seems a lot of them do not.