More Good News on Stem Cell Research

This has to be tough for the Culture of Death crowd to swallow.

It's yet another breakthrough in stem cell research that does not require the destruction of embryos.

From The Washington Post:

Three teams of scientists said yesterday they had coaxed ordinary mouse skin cells to become what are effectively embryonic stem cells without creating or destroying embryos in the process -- an advance that, if it works with human cells, could revolutionize stem cell research and quench one of the hottest bioethical controversies of the decade.

In work being published today, the scientists describe a method for turning back the biological clocks of skin cells growing in laboratory dishes. Thus rejuvenated, the cells give rise to daughter cells that are able to become all the parts needed to make a new mouse.

If the process also works with human cells, as scientists suspect it will with some modifications, it would mean that a person's own skin cells could be converted directly into stem cells without having to collect healthy human eggs or destroy human embryos -- steps that until now have been required to obtain embryonic stem cells.

Those stem cells could then be used to make a wide variety of personalized replacement tissues.

The findings have generated tumult on Capitol Hill, where the House is set to vote today on a bill that would loosen President Bush's 2001 restrictions on the use of human embryos in stem cell research.

Acutely aware that their new work could undermine that key political goal, the scientists cautioned that their success with mouse cells does not guarantee quick success with human cells. They called for Congress to pass the bill, which would give federally funded researchers access to embryos slated for destruction at fertility clinics.

The researchers are "acutely aware" of "key political goals"?

Are they scientists or lobbyists for libs?

Destroying innocent human life is morally wrong.

It's absolutely repugnant that embryos, AKA genetically complete human beings, are created at fertility clinics and then just tossed out like trash.

There should be outrage over the fact that the embryos are going to be destroyed at these clinics, not that they aren't being used as material for medical experimentation.

Although the embryos have been sentenced to death, that doesn't make their destruction by researchers morally acceptable.

President Bush should veto any legislation that dismisses the sanctity of human life.

Stem cells hold promise. Absolutely.

That promise doesn't have to come via immoral acts.

"[T]here is no such thing as a spare embryo. Every embryo is unique and genetically complete, like every other human being. And each of us started out our life this way. These lives are not raw material to be exploited, but gifts."

--George W. Bush, May 24, 2005