President Bush condemned the ending of the life of embryos, and stopped any further (legal) killing of those embryos. He has saved those babies' lives, whether you recognize it, or not.
This is a huge victory for the pro-life movement, except to those who are determined to be angry, regardless of the progress made...........that would be you.
I refuse to get into an argument with anyone saying that I'm not pro-life, because it's so ridiculous, so if that's the direction you plan on going, I won't be replying to you again.
I am certainly not saying that you are not pro-life, just that I believe you are wrong in your belief that Bush's compromise was in any way morally acceptable. I do not believe in Utilitarian philosophy, nor to I believe that situation ethics is a morally acceptable justification for any sort of federal funding of stem cell research, which would also include President Bush's embryonic stem-cell compromise.
There was absolutely no need for President Bush to make any sort of compromise in regards to embryonic stem-cell research. Why? Because we can already obtain stem cells from our own blood and fat, not to mention umbilical cords. With that being said, there has been no proof showing that embryonic stem cells are better than those taken from the other alternative sources mentioned above. President Bush did not need to make a compromise because we can already obtain stem cells without the taking of an innocent human life.
The human embryos that are destroyed in this process are not, as George W. Bush would say, “potential life,” these are human beings and should be given the same rights as any other and treated as such. Because these embryos are human life, any process that would destroy them is morally unacceptable. One could make the line of reasoning that constructing an argument based solely on human emotions is a bad course of action and using situation ethics an even worse one, which is exactly what the arguments made by the proponents of this research and compromise dwindle down to. Trying to save hundreds, even thousands of human lives by sacrificing the lives of the unborn who have not the ability to defend themselves is inhumane and detrimental to the moral compass of America, which is already in a state of perpetual disrepair. We cannot as a society, equate human beings to the status of a lab rat.
Because of all the reasons listed above, the U.S. Government should not fund this type of research or even attempt to validate it by funding research on embryos that have already been killed; the ends just do not justify the means here. That is like saying that it was okay for the Nazi’s to use the body parts of Jews that were murdered in concentration camps to experiment on because, well, they were already dead. Embryonic stem cell research is Nazism and mad scientist syndrome at its worst because it does not herald life; it insults and cheapens the whole concept of respecting life itself, whether one is pro-life or not.
The whole philosophy behind and supporting stem cell research has the substance of an echo and is a sad attempt to make human decency and basic moral ethics non-existent in America today—not only that, but it also makes our great Creator shutter with disgust and sadness.
We as a society, are witnessing a disturbing trend of utilitarian medical science, and as Christians, we must stand up for what we believe in—the sanctity of human life--because with embryonic stem cell research, there is no middle ground.
I do not believe that it is morally acceptable for anyone to profit off the murder of an unborn child, that is what I believe, and the conviction that enables me to live in peace. Some pro-lifer's are satifisied to sell-out their moral convictions to politicians and compromise, but because human life is a gift from God to us, I could not live with a clear conscience if I supported either this research or Bush's compromise.