Monday, November 26, 2007
Good News for Everyone! - Isn't it?
Well, maybe it's not...
At the North Star Writers Group, Dan Calabrese elaborates:
"It appears as if it may soon become easier for lives to be saved without lives being destroyed. Great news, right?
You’d think so, but in the everything-is-partisan world in which we live, celebrations are limited to one side of the aisle.
Dr. James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin – the man who pioneered embryonic stem cell research even while harboring ethical misgivings about the destruction of life it required – is now reporting he may have found a way to get the same kinds of stem cells from adult skin.
If true, the debate is over. Those who object to the creation of life for the purpose of destroying it can rest assured that no such abomination is necessary. And those who want to press ahead with stem cell research in the pursuit of cures for horrible diseases will be able to do so.
Everybody wins!
Oh, you silly. It’s never that easy, now is it?"
