Stem-cell bill

I just have to point this out, because it’s buried in the CNN story.

The House of Representatives passed a bill, HR 810, that would reduce the current ban on stem-cell research.

The CNN story wrote in the lede that the new bill “would expand public funding for embryonic stem cell research.” Yes, this is true. But what’s buried is this very important part of the bill: It would only allow reserach on stem calls in which

[T]he embryos would never be implanted in a woman and would otherwise be discarded (Emphasis mine.)

In other words, these embryos are going to be destroyed. Gone. So the question is, should we allow them to be used to do research that might save lives, or should we simply discard them? ‘Cause that’s the choice here — there’s no third option. Destroy them or try to save lives with them.

What choice would “err on the side of life” here? Seems pretty obvious to me.