By MICHAEL KINSLEY | 1/19/11
Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47821.html"...I could use a miraculous cure for Parkinson’s, too, as could millions of others around the world who have the disease or will develop it. And
the main force preventing such a miracle is the Roman Catholic Church. The most likely source of miraculous cures for all sorts of diseases, with Parkinson’s foremost among them, is stem cell research. The
Church opposes stem cell research on the grounds that it uses, and in the process, destroys human embryos. These are surplus embryos from fertilization clinics that will be destroyed, or permanently frozen, anyway. They are not fetuses; they are clumps of a few dozen cells. But of course, none of this matters if you believe they are human beings. The famous test of that belief goes something like this:
Suppose there was a fire destroying your house and you had the choice of rescuing either a real one-year-old baby or two test tubes, each containing an embryo. Would you really go for the test tubes and let the baby die?..."
Alex's comment: Well-said!
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