Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Don't Be Removing My Wedgie!
Scientist announced that they "may", I repeat "may" be able to harvest stem cells without harming an embryo.

Let's assume for a moment that they do. Does anyone actually think this will remove opposition to stem cell research?:
"There is no rational reason left to oppose this research," one of the scientists involved told the NYT. But the White House said they'll be deciding what's rational, thank you. A Bush spokeswoman said the scientists had the right idea, but that in the end, "any use of human embryos for research purposes raises serious ethical questions. This technique does not resolve those concerns." The Catholic Church also was not won over, objecting as it does to in vitro fertilization in general as well as this particular diagnostic test.
This scientist quoted above makes a fundamental mistake is thinking that "rationality" has anything to do with the entire issue. For the White House and conservative nutbars, it's politics and fantacism. The controversy over this issue will never be solved in the laboratory.

At least the Catholics are consistently against all in-vitro fertilization.

Besides. Don't wedgies fit in the same category as frat nick-names, farting jokes?
Written at 9:51 AM by Greyhair.
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