In Obama’s overturning of the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research:
The U.S. bishops’ conference pro-life committee chairman is denouncing President Barack Obama’s executive order that will allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Cardinal Justin Rigali issued a response to the U.S. president’s order today that will allow federal tax dollars to be used to fund scientists in the destruction of live human embryos to develop stem cells for research.
The cardinal said: “President Obama’s new executive order on embryonic stem cell research is a sad victory of politics over science and ethics.
We don’t need embryonic stem cells to do stem cell research – we have plenty of other means of obtaining them and, indeed, while embryonic stem cells are proving worthless as a treatment, adult stem cells are proving ever more worthwhile. It is sheer culture of death bloody mindedness which impels Obama along this path – that plus the amount of research dollars and reputations already tied up in embryonic stem cells, and thus the vested interest in keeping this useless line of inquiry open.
Keep in mind, dear people, that we will be making human beings in order to kill them for our personal benefit – and that is only if, by some odd chance, a treatment actually comes out of embryonic stem cells. If, as I expect, embryonic stem cells continue to prove unusable, then we will have made human beings to kill them for nothing.
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