US government funding would be good (The state is funding stem cell research here in California), but it will not be the difference between success and failure in stem cell research. There are serious moral and ethical questions about embryonic stem cell research. Lots of people feel very uncomfortable about the whole notion, and we should go slow in terms of setting any national policy about creating new embryonic stem cell lines using federal dollars.
Personally, I am in favor of all forms of stem cell research, but I would never accept the idea of fertilizing an egg solely for the purpose of harvesting that egg for stem cells. Using "discarded" eggs for stem cells? The question then becomes how to classify an egg as discarded. What if we say it is ok to use discarded eggs, then ten years from now we find that in vitro clinics are conveniently fertilizing ten times the number of eggs they had in the past, and low and behold the extra embryos were harvested for stem cells? Do we file charges against clinics? I have no idea, but the very thought of it is chilling. Not to go into hyperbole here, but it sounds like a Nazi experiment- scientific research no matter the cost to our humanity. On 1/22/07, G Money wrote: > > Actually, it sounds to ME like desperate men of science are using their > creativity and intelligence to try and get around a huge road block to > their > endeavors to save the lives of millions of people. > > A road block set up for political and ideological reasons. > > How many people will suffer for this clusterphuck remains to be seen. > Probably in the millions, maybe tens of millions, depending on what new > breakthroughs are achieved, and how severely these breakthroughs are > delayed > due to this idiot wrangling. -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225415 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
