Congress and stem cells: a question

Published 7/19/06

So President Bush will be vetoing a bill that would remove some restrictions on stem-cell research in the U.S. The bill does not have enough supporter to override said veto — in other words, there are a good number of Congressmen and -women opposed to stem-cell research.

OK, that’s fine. I don’t agree with them, but they claim to have an ethical objection.

But here’s a question we should be asking them: Are you willing to sign a pledge that you will never take advantage of any treatment that comes from stem-cell research?

See, the research is going to continue, just not in the U.S. And you can bet that treatments will arise because of it, and those treatments will eventually get to the States. But if these folks find the research leading to those treatments so abhorrent, they should have no problem promising never to use any of them.

Think there would be any takers?

The Fray

One response so far (add yours)

gnomic says:

The local right-wingnut coworker tried to pitch Dumb-ya’s position on this as protecting minority rights. I tried to explian to him that labeling a clump of cells as a person doesn’t make it a person. And if bush is so pro-life, why did he gleefully kill so many people as gubernor o’ texas?

Once you endorse torture, you give up the moral high ground.

July 19th, 2006 at 7:55 PM

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