Comments on: Stem Cell Debate: What’s Your Opinion? http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/ To build consensus on issues Thu, 24 May 2012 10:05:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: David http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2651 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:38:39 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2651 I'm definitely pro-choice. BUT I believe in being fair about it. Give the foetus a chance to grow to be old enough to choose for itself whether it wants to be killed by its mother. Fair's fair. She already made the choice to have sex; now its only fair to give the child a choice. I’m definitely pro-choice. BUT I believe in being fair about it. Give the foetus a chance to grow to be old enough to choose for itself whether it wants to be killed by its mother.

Fair’s fair. She already made the choice to have sex; now its only fair to give the child a choice.

]]> by: C. Harris http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2645 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:09:52 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2645 It would be nice, when tracking back to a post other than 'open' trackback linkfests, if the topic of the trackback was related to the post. Call me crazy, but tax-time and the stem cell debate don't appear related. It would be nice, when tracking back to a post other than ‘open’ trackback linkfests, if the topic of the trackback was related to the post. Call me crazy, but tax-time and the stem cell debate don’t appear related.

]]> by: 123beta http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2641 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:03:52 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2641 <strong>Tax-Time Open Weekend Trackbacks...</strong> Just days left to find some last minute deductions...... Tax-Time Open Weekend Trackbacks…

Just days left to find some last minute deductions……

]]> by: Stanford Matthews http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2629 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:41:00 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2629 This question is for both Cao and David. Are both of you on the pro-life side of the abortion issue or pro-choice? This question is for both Cao and David. Are both of you on the pro-life side of the abortion issue or pro-choice?

]]> by: David http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2621 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:28:20 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2621 Cao's pegged it correctly. With phenomenal results for adult stem cells already on the books (such as <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070312231717.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>adult stem cells already being used--in so far successful <i>Phase II</i> clinical trials--to repair heart damage after a heart attack</b></a>), advocating <i>expanding</i> the use of embryonic stem cells in research (especially since ONLY adult stem cell research has yet shown positive results!) is, in Cao's wiords, "illegal, immoral, and unnecessary." And if President Bush can resist being nice to disingenuous advocates of infanticide, it'll stay illegal in this country to expand the use of embryonic stem cell research using MY tax dollars (embryonic stem cell research can still be done with private monies and can still be done using the existing lines of embryonic stem cells, even with government funding, so the claims that a presidential veto of this bill is against stem cell research is triply bogus). Let the market decide. The market stampede is toward adult stem cell research (because it has so far shown not only <i>"promise"</i> but <i>results</i>). Cao’s pegged it correctly. With phenomenal results for adult stem cells already on the books (such as adult stem cells already being used–in so far successful Phase II clinical trials–to repair heart damage after a heart attack), advocating expanding the use of embryonic stem cells in research (especially since ONLY adult stem cell research has yet shown positive results!) is, in Cao’s wiords, “illegal, immoral, and unnecessary.”

And if President Bush can resist being nice to disingenuous advocates of infanticide, it’ll stay illegal in this country to expand the use of embryonic stem cell research using MY tax dollars (embryonic stem cell research can still be done with private monies and can still be done using the existing lines of embryonic stem cells, even with government funding, so the claims that a presidential veto of this bill is against stem cell research is triply bogus).

Let the market decide. The market stampede is toward adult stem cell research (because it has so far shown not only “promise” but results).

]]> by: Cao http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2616 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:07:31 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/stem-cell-debate-whats-your-opinion/#comment-2616 I think people are somewhat confused as to the difference between adult stem cell research that has produced results, and embryonic stem cell research which hasn't. Embryonic stem cell research hasn't shown any benefits aside from destroying/killing human life; sadly, scientists use the Theory of Evolution as their criteria for medical ethics today. So the result is a modern day Mengele infused research criteria - experimentation and murder of unborn children is being advocated with no scientific basis. Adult stem cells have given us much more to work with - even though headlines talk about possibilities for embryonic stem cell research - stem cells from embyros are the problem; and what is in my opinion unethical. <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory022601a.shtml" rel="nofollow">From NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez's interview with David Prentice, Professor of Life and Sciences at State University and an adjunct professor of medical &#38; molecular genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine</a>: Human embryonic stem-cell research is illegal, immoral, and unnecessary. It is ILLEGAL regarding use of federal funds because Congress has stated that no funds should be used for research which involves the creation or destruction of human embryos for research purposes, and human embryos are destroyed in the process of deriving human embryonic stem cells. It is IMMORAL, because human beings are killed in the process. Scientifically there is no disputing that we are a human being even at the one-cell stage. It has never been acceptable to sacrifice one set of human lives for the potential benefit of others (and they are only potential benefits at this point.) Human embryonic stem cell research assigns different values to different human beings, designating some as people and some as property. It is totally UNNECESSARY. Ethical alternatives exist such as adult stem cells which have already shown much more promise than embryonic cells, these results for adult stem cells are fully detailed in the scientific literature, and that adult stem cells are already being used clinically, making good on the potential that embryonic stem cells only promise. I think people are somewhat confused as to the difference between adult stem cell research that has produced results, and embryonic stem cell research which hasn’t. Embryonic stem cell research hasn’t shown any benefits aside from destroying/killing human life; sadly, scientists use the Theory of Evolution as their criteria for medical ethics today. So the result is a modern day Mengele infused research criteria - experimentation and murder of unborn children is being advocated with no scientific basis. Adult stem cells have given us much more to work with - even though headlines talk about possibilities for embryonic stem cell research - stem cells from embyros are the problem; and what is in my opinion unethical.

From NRO’s Kathryn Jean Lopez’s interview with David Prentice, Professor of Life and Sciences at State University and an adjunct professor of medical &
molecular genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine:

Human embryonic stem-cell research is illegal, immoral, and unnecessary.

It is ILLEGAL regarding use of federal funds because Congress has stated that no funds should be used for research which involves the creation or destruction of human embryos for research purposes, and human embryos are destroyed in the process of deriving human embryonic stem cells.

It is IMMORAL, because human beings are killed in the process. Scientifically there is no disputing that we are a human being even at the one-cell stage. It has never been acceptable to sacrifice one set of human lives for the potential benefit of others (and they are only potential benefits at this point.) Human embryonic stem cell research assigns different values to different human beings, designating some as people and some as property.

It is totally UNNECESSARY. Ethical alternatives exist such as adult stem cells which have already shown much more promise than embryonic cells, these results for adult stem cells are fully detailed in the scientific literature, and that adult stem cells are already being used clinically, making good on the potential that embryonic stem cells only promise.

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