Let's talk about Stem Cell Research

There is PROBABLY not a person on the face of the earth against Stem Cell Research. Not one. Including the President and anyone pro-life. Stem cell research is exactly what Bone Marrow Transplants is all about. It is also what Cord Blood Transfusions are all about. There is a growing list of various human problems that are becoming treatable with Bone Marrow and Cord Blood cells. There are studies on adult stem cells being derived from nasal cells!

The line is drawn when we use a human 'embryo' to get those stem cells, effectively taking that person's life. Life begins at conception. Life is Sacred. Those frozen 'embryos' are not 'garbage to be tossed out, wasted.' They are human lives that deserve to be treated with dignity. MANY couples would be thrilled to adopt those children...that IS what they are. In fact, some have already done just this, with the blessings of the biological parents!

When we cross one ethical line, there are others waiting not far behind, challenging us to 'just step over this one'...giving false promises but leading further and further down the path toward the day that 'anything goes'.

Animals rights' activists have a hard time with doing experiments on animals, and think that this should be outlawed. I can see their point, but also know that an animal and a human being are not the same. But even there, some have crossed the line in animal experimentation, also, such as in cloning. Now they want to take that knowledge and clone human beings.... see, if you cross ONE ethical line, there are others beckoning, daring you to cross them, too, giving more and more 'rational reasons' to do so...and many will.

I listen to some giving very emotionally charged, manipulative 'pleas' to 'just let us use those embryos that will be tossed in the garbage anyway...for LIFE, so that they don't go to waste'.... and this kind of 'speech' persuades many others to step over that ethical. moral line of taking a life to experiment on human beings.

There will always be people in the private sector willing to do anything, regardless of the morality or the ethics involved, and some will think that they have very valid reasons to do so, justifying their actions as being good for humanity. The problem comes in when you want to use tax money to have government fund that work.

When there is so very much evidence that Adult and Cord Stem Cells are already being used with great success, there is no reason to kill the babies (excuse me, politically correct says that they are embryos..).

A line was already crossed when President Bush authorized federal funding on already EXISTING lines of stem cells..... daring others to press to cross the next. In order to continue, they say, they must have fresh cells to begin new lines because the existing ones 'may have been contaminated'.

Let's go with the ethical and moral way, staying away from the questionable things that destroy life, and continue working with what is proving to be fruitful, adult stem cells. For if we don't draw a line in the sand and say 'NO, you are not going to cross this barrier', there will be no end to the unethical and immoral choices in the future that are justified and ... emotionally presented to us in order to get us to accept each step down that slope.

For a list that Adult Stem Cells have been used to help patients, and a comparison of what Embryonic Stem Cells have been used for on humans, please see this site. For a very thorough and frequently updated website to learn the TRUTH about Stem Cells, go here, and check back often.

To read an online 'debate'/interview on the subject, see this website .

OH, and the new, politically correct terminology to learn that will obfuscate the entire issue in order to make it more palatable is already available! "Nuclear Transfer Technology" is what they now want you to learn. Just as Baby has been replaced by terms like 'products of conception, embryo and fetus' so that we don't think about who we are hurting when we do those abortions, and 'artificial feeding' so we don't realize it is REALLY food and water that we are taking from a living human being in order to 'let them die with dignity'...(starve and dehydrate a human being to death)... these three words are what they now call... cloning.

OBFUSCATE:
"to deliberately make something unclear or difficult to understand, by making use of unfamiliar terminology"


"Right is still right if nobody is right,
and wrong is still wrong if everybody is wrong,"
Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
author of The Life of Christ

LIFE IS PRECIOUS
FROM CONCEPTION
TO NATURAL DEATH.
CHERISH IT!
PROTECT IT.