Growing People for Spare Parts
Posted by: tony on 03/09/2009 05:37 PM
Updated by: tony on 03/09/2009 05:37 PM
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Expires: 04/09/2009 12:00 AM
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President Obama has reversed the Bush policy of not allowing federal funds to go toward any but existing stem cell lines (already dead) at the time. In defense of his action, President Obama says:
Monday's order, Obama said, "is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology."
So we are divorcing ethics from science. This was the sort of thing that Dr. Frankstein did in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Do we really want to start down this slippery slope which might lead to the creation of clones for spare body parts for rich clients, human-animal chimeras and other horrifying abominations (Obamanations?).
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