All of this human embryonic stem cell research smacks of Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. Mengele arrived at Auschwitz with a mission to plumb the depths of the human mystery, and to extract the secrets of human genetics from the living twin specimens at his disposal. Are we not repeating the same mistake, Dr. Mengele preformed thousands of ghoulish experiments on Jewish prisoners during the Third Reich because, well after all, they were going to be exterminated anyway, so why not use them in medical experiments? This is the same rational used by those who wish to use stem cells from living, innocent, human embryos waiting to be born. Yet isn't it true that new research has found that certain cells from bone marrow of fully grown people have the same characteristics of stem cells and work just as well?
You can get the same stem cells in your bone marrow in your thigh (femur). It's just painful to harvest it. So why not take it from something that is going to die anyway. < /sarcasm >
I like the idea of saying that the libs are pushing a Mengelian conspiracy of killing children for a pie-in-the-sky chance to improve the lives of crippled celebrities and old people. But I don't think it will play with moderates and leaners. This stem cell funding is a sick and evil plan, but be careful how you compare Holocaust victims to embryos in a petri dish who will probably be disposed of anyway. The jews are a big-time swing constituency this year.