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Religious conservatives Monday criticized legislation in the U.S. Senate that would use federal taxpayer dollars to pay for embryonic stem cell research. "The Senate should not be tinkering in the baby body parts business, except to ban it and to punish it," said Paul Chaim Schenck, director of the National Pro-Life Action Center.
Backers of the legislation to fund more research say the testing would be conducted on excess embryos created during in vitro fertilization and stored at fertility clinics, and that the embryos would otherwise be discarded. The National Pro-Life Action Center insists that the use of these embryos represents the destruction of human life and is ethically wrong.
"To date, without exception, all of the miracle cures found from stem cell research come from adult stem cells," said Nancy Fortier Paltell, who is the associate director of the Respect for Life Department at the Maryland Catholic Conference.
"When all of these diseases are being cured, why are we even talking about embryonic stem cells?" she asked at Monday's news conference on Capitol Hill.
Stem Cell Research is 'Baby Part Business,' Say Prolifers
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In other words, loosen the rules for killing patients so they can help themselves to the body parts. Worth a lot of money! The same cannibalistic urge is at work in stem cell lobbying.