Re: OT: Embryonic stem cell research: The Moral Minefield


ddnoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/author/denise-noe/

"Of course, some people will say my hypothesized artificial uterus and
harvested fetus is far-fetched but it is no more of a science fiction
scenario than an embryo created in a petri dish would have been a
couple of generations back. Much of the most haunting science fiction,
such as Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein, warns of the
catastrophes that can result when our technical capacities outstrip our
moral wisdom. The debate over embryonic stem cell research underlines
the need for those warnings."

A previous version of this was published in the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.

Posted in Denise Noe at 2:08 pm by Denise Noe | Permalink | 1 Comment

Here is the good thing about laws designed to protect human beings,
Denise; we need not go down EVERY slipperly slope just to prevent
progress. We need not allow marriage between humans and goats if we
allow gays the same rights as straights, and we need not allow the
killing of a late term fetus so as to provide donor organs for other
humans. Those who speak against stem cell research are very much like
those yelling "the sky is falling" for every new scientific discovery.
This has happened at every invention from aspirin to penicillan to just
about everything else.

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