As far as standard of morality when it comes to doing medical research on human embryos, as far as I have been able to find so correct me if I am mistaken, Canada and the European Nation countries also do not fund research on human embryos. Only China and South Korea do.
Bush only put a restriction on federal funding when it comes using human embryos. He did not outlaw there use. The federal gov't is funding a few hundred million in stem cell research. This bill would not have increased that amount.
The state of California alone is funding $6 billion in human embryonic stem cell research. That $6 billion in California tax payer dollars could have been spent to feed the hungry you mentioned but the California voters decided that funding stem cell research was more important. So the hungry, sick and poor have to live with the moral standards of not one person but of the 7,009,814 people in California who voted for Proposition 71: Stem Cell Research. Funding. Bonds, not the 4,859,401 who voted against it.
At 08:32 PM 7/19/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its sad to think that our government is establishing the standards for morality. Its a shame that we have to live by the morality of one person, while others go to bed this very evening hungry, sick and poor. It almost happened today,except for the stroke of a pen that might have helped someone's dream. It happened because a single person felt it was the moral thing to do.
Hitler, in his own way also felt that he was only doing the moral thing. It took several nations to prove him wrong.
Let's pray that not one of us should die before our time because of a stroke of a pen. Granted, we won't all live forever, but we all deserve a fair chance.....
Jim Lubin
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