This is especially perplexing when you learn the simple fact that adult stem cells (ASC) have already yielded 50 treatments and more are coming. This is one of the main reasons ESC researchers needed government funding: ESC wasn't considered plausible enough to justify investors putting money into it, while ASC was and as a result receives healthy investment.
Now, I guess the ESC's offered some promise due to their pluripotency (the ability to morph into a large variety of cell types), but early testing had shown that ESC development was nearly impossible to control and very unstable. ASCs, on the other hand, were stable and developed predictably.
Assuming pro-ESC folks are decent hearted, one could assume they honestly believed in their power. But now that the CA project has come up empty, we need to move on. But I have a feeling we won't.
There's a reason certain types of people are for ESC research. They need to destroy embryos to prove that they are not human life. This bolsters their contention that abortion too does not result in the death of a human, but rather simply the premature of death of a clump of cells.
The two are connected and require zealous adherence and constant reaffirmation lest the believers' arguments begin to crack and collapse. If that happens, they will have to accept the horrible reality that they have been advocating murder their whole lives. The conscience simply doesn't want to accept that. They also would have to accept that crazy, toothless, fundamentalist freaks were right, and they were wrong. That simply won't do, even though the same people (liberals) drone on night and day about their overwhelming compassion for the poor working class. They do this, but then disdain and constantly make fun of those some people, putting them down for their Wal-Mart clothes, simplistic religion, idiotic pastimes (NASCAR), etc.
It's a sad state of affairs, but there you go.
Of course, I must end by saying that liberals, pro-choicers, feminists, culture-of-death protagonists, etc., are not the enemy. They need to be cured, prayed for, converted. The real enemy, the one behind this desire to destroy nascent life is the great liar himself, Satan. In this war, he is the enemy and his defeat is what I and many others seek.
Sound crazy? Well, that's what I believe. Satan is real, he's smart, and he's BIG. He's at work and needs to be stopped.
Please help us St. Michael!
I love the tag "Culture of Death" Does that include bombing children in Afghanistan and governments putting fully formed humans to death, or does the culture of death only apply to killing blastocysts?
返信削除The culture of death refers specifically to abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment, for the most part. Would you say that our killing of innocent civilians during WWII was a manifestation of the Culture of Death? Some say yes, some say no. But as much as you might want to believe it, the intent of U.S. forces was not to kill innocents in Afghanistan or Iraq, but to take out the people who were posing a threat to others. When innocents are killed in such efforts, it is tragic and unintended. Military personnel from the US do not seek the deaths of innocents, unlike the enemy we are fighting. To be guilty of your charge above, you would have to demonstrate that our military were actively seeking the deaths of innocents, or being negligent to the point of criminality. I choose to give them the benefit of the doubt, even if there are cases of abuse from time to time.
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