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.
Lunatic Fringe:
The link below is to a CNN article this year on the likelihood that any clinical value of embryonic stem cells is at least a decade away. I am not a religious nut. I am a political nut. Please read this when you have time:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/08/01/feature.stemcells/