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Replies like "get a grip" and "absurd" are no substitute for arguing your point. I hear responses like this from my daughter who is a college student and my liberal friends--people who use the establishment news media for a belief system.

Embryonic stem cell research, which has led to tissue rejection and tumors in lab animals, cannot survive without taxpayer handouts. The reason is that privately-funded research (ie: big business, capitalism) has found adult stem cells to be a far more productive (profitable) path to treatments and cures. New adult stem cell progress is announced every week.

The political value of embryonic stem cell research is that ultimately it will be sustained by the harvest and destruction of human embryos. This practice morally elevates abortion and human cloning. It is not a huge leap to say that this moral mindset would also be inclined to accept euthanasia because the political philosophy under this whole trend in medicine is Materialism or Marxism which denies the individual in favor of the state.

I gave a response. There are advances in ESC research all the time. I see the religious nuts insisting that there has been NO achievements, and then equating it to euthanasia.

The position of the religious right is so weak on these points, they resort to lies.

While it is true that ESC research has resulted in tumors in rats, this point is irrelevant because it was a result of injecting embryonic stem cells directly into rats... which is not what the treatments will do!

You also say that the research cannot survive without taxpayer money... another falsehood. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in the U.S. with billions more spent around the world. Federal funding would provide not only more money, but regulation of the research.

As for your incredible leap of logic that federal funding would result in the acceptance of euthanasia, your premise is based on the myth that there is some equivalence between a 3-day old test-tube embryo and a 60-year old man. "Gee, if we can snuff out embryos, how long before we're killing old people?!" It's one of those ridiculous slippery slope arguments that are not even worth acknowledging.