Unless the media amplifies in its print reportage or sound bites, the incredible message this breakthrough sends is being reported out of context and a is a whitewash of the liberal pressure and obsessions the past couple years.
Methinks the media is NOT fleshing this story out.....but then, I do miss SOME things when I'm cooking, LOL.
Leni
I thought I had seen Michael J. Fox mentioned in some of the coverage, but he's not in the article I linked, so maybe not.
The part I think people still aren't getting is that the embryos used in this research largely are not coming from abortion clinics, but from fertility clinics, where millions of embryos are still languishing in suspended animation, because more were created than could be used, and now their "parents" don't know what to do with them. There was a survey published a couple of months ago that said many parents would rather have the embryos used for research that might benefit someone than just "kill" them or allow their biological children to be raised by strangers. I think that would be a difficult decision to make.
I will add that I don't think too many embryos were created out of any "evil" intents, but simply because sometimes all the eggs are fertilized, sometimes not; sometimes no embryos implant, sometimes too many implant, and we don't have the knowledge to tell which will happen in any given case yet.