Lawyer-Wearing-Yarmulka
Friday, November 30, 2007
Bush Is Vindicated...
...On stem cells. So says Charles Krauthhammer. He's right.
posted by LWY, 11:42 AM
6 Comments:
fyi, jewish law has no problem with embryonic stem cell research
FYI, I'm well aware of that. But what does that have anything to do with Bush?
He has not been vindicated. Firstly, this new discovery does not obviate the need for embryonic stem-cell research. Second, there's still the matter of having had reduced research for these six years:
This issue will not go away. First, even the scientists who achieved the latest success believe strongly that embryonic-stem-cell research should continue. No one knows for sure whether the new method of producing pluripotent cells will pan out or where the next big developments will come from … Second, even if this were a true turning point in stem-cell research, people like me are not going to quickly forget those six lost years.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1689196,00.html
These are real people's lives and health we're talking about and Bush's stance was morally incoherent. Krauthammer's proposed compromise -- that stem cells from fertility clinics could be used -- was at least consistent, but Bush's was all political expedience. To allow extra human embryonic cells from fertility treatments to be destroyed rather than used for research makes no moral sense whatsoever.
This issue will not go away. First, even the scientists who achieved the latest success believe strongly that embryonic-stem-cell research should continue. No one knows for sure whether the new method of producing pluripotent cells will pan out or where the next big developments will come from … Second, even if this were a true turning point in stem-cell research, people like me are not going to quickly forget those six lost years.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1689196,00.html
These are real people's lives and health we're talking about and Bush's stance was morally incoherent. Krauthammer's proposed compromise -- that stem cells from fertility clinics could be used -- was at least consistent, but Bush's was all political expedience. To allow extra human embryonic cells from fertility treatments to be destroyed rather than used for research makes no moral sense whatsoever.
6 years wasn't "lost". Plenty of research was done across the world. States were tripping over themselves trying to attract stem cell research labs.
You can definitely argue that Bush drew the line in the sand incorrectly. The point though, is that he drew a line.
You can definitely argue that Bush drew the line in the sand incorrectly. The point though, is that he drew a line.
6 years wasn't "lost". Plenty of research was done across the world. States were tripping over themselves trying to attract stem cell research labs.
Of course. But we're behind where we would have been.
You can definitely argue that Bush drew the line in the sand incorrectly. The point though, is that he drew a line.
Huh? Was somebody arguing that he didn't draw a line? The whole point is that his line was ridiculous.
Of course. But we're behind where we would have been.
You can definitely argue that Bush drew the line in the sand incorrectly. The point though, is that he drew a line.
Huh? Was somebody arguing that he didn't draw a line? The whole point is that his line was ridiculous.
If Bush would have permitted using discarded embryos, then he would have been bashed for not allowing embryos created specifically for research.
