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In an astounding lack of understanding on the issue of stem cells, Globe columnist Ellen Goodman criticizes Bush on his role in his opposition to embryonic stem cells. Here are some quotes from the article:
The idea that a leftover frozen embryo had greater moral status than your aunt with diabetes didn’t wash with the general public.
What an incredibly deceptive quote!! In an emotional way she’s trying to imply that that one embryo would cure the aunt of diabetes. The reality is that we would be killing the human embryo for the purpose of experimenting with the possibility of helping cure diseases (so far lots of human embryos killed with no progress). Here’s another beauty of a quote:
Democrats, on the other hand, may breathe a sigh of regret. The stem-cell controversy gave pro-choicers an iconic image of their enemy: someone who put the embryo uber alles. It gave progressives a poster girl in Nancy Reagan - and a poster boy in Michael J. Fox. Stem cells were to the left what partial-birth abortion was to the right, a way to frame a touchy issue and look like the reasonable center.
To compare the secular progressives like Fox and opponents of partial birth abortion is disingenuous at best and nutty at worst. I do think that moral conservatives opposition to embryonic stem cell research did give scientists an incentive to find a more moral solution - Goodman is wrong on all counts. And finally this quote:
***First of all, the Bush administration bet on the wrong horse - adult stem cells. ***
Sorry, Ms. Goodman, but adult stem cells are the only ones so far that have produced cures - hundreds of them. I think it was clearly the right horse as this latest breakthrough is essentially from an adult stem cell.
boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/11/30/bushs_vision_on_stem_cells/
The idea that a leftover frozen embryo had greater moral status than your aunt with diabetes didn’t wash with the general public.
What an incredibly deceptive quote!! In an emotional way she’s trying to imply that that one embryo would cure the aunt of diabetes. The reality is that we would be killing the human embryo for the purpose of experimenting with the possibility of helping cure diseases (so far lots of human embryos killed with no progress). Here’s another beauty of a quote:
Democrats, on the other hand, may breathe a sigh of regret. The stem-cell controversy gave pro-choicers an iconic image of their enemy: someone who put the embryo uber alles. It gave progressives a poster girl in Nancy Reagan - and a poster boy in Michael J. Fox. Stem cells were to the left what partial-birth abortion was to the right, a way to frame a touchy issue and look like the reasonable center.
To compare the secular progressives like Fox and opponents of partial birth abortion is disingenuous at best and nutty at worst. I do think that moral conservatives opposition to embryonic stem cell research did give scientists an incentive to find a more moral solution - Goodman is wrong on all counts. And finally this quote:
***First of all, the Bush administration bet on the wrong horse - adult stem cells. ***
Sorry, Ms. Goodman, but adult stem cells are the only ones so far that have produced cures - hundreds of them. I think it was clearly the right horse as this latest breakthrough is essentially from an adult stem cell.
boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/11/30/bushs_vision_on_stem_cells/
