"I don't see the problem with using embryos created in the process of fertility treatments which are due to be destroyed anyway."
Apparently you dont have a problem with federal funding for this either, ie more socialism?
Hey...as long as it's proposed by someone with an (R) next to their name it's goooooooood. Baaaa baaaa went the sheeple....
Yeah, I'm a socialist who just agrees with whoever has an R next to his name. Of course, most R's are against this, but such an obvious contradiction is invisible to someone with your bizarre logic.
Nice debate on the issues, thanks so much!
Federal funding should be a separate issue. There are plenty of people who would like the government to ban embryonic stem cell research altogether, regardless of who's paying the tab, and a lot of those people are using the federal funding debate as a platform to promote their ideas. Personally, I regard any restrictions whatsoever on any kind of stem cell research as dangerous Luddite-ism. But I'm no fan of government funding for anything that can realistically be done by the private sector, and this is certainly private sector doable.
If there's anything I find scarier than Luddites managing to get this type of research banned altogether, it's the prospect of government providing it heavy funding and then ending up owning many of the key patents. This would put the government in a stronger position to implement full-blown socialized medicine, by withholding the treatments developed by these methods from use by anyone outside the government health system, or requiring big royalty payments for such uses.