The NIH is taking comments for their policy of destroying small human beings, so that
their cells can be harvested, and so that the government can spend a lot of money to
incentivize the killing of people the government does not see a use for. Please take the
time to go there, and leave your comments.
http://nihoerextra.nih.gov/stem_cells/add.htm
I wrote this:
It is without conscience to allow the destruction of a human embryo for the
capture of embryonic stem cells. First, designating some humans as
beneficially-killable contravenes the first purposes of the Declaration of
Independence. You cannot have equal rights and also designate some people as
beneficial to be innocent-slaughtered. Second, science has demonstrated huge
benefits and gains from ADULT stem cell work, while science has demonstrated
huge incidence of runaway cancers from fetal transplanted stem cells. Third, by
placing the possibility of benefit on the killing of a fetus, the government is
creating a system whereby the murder of future people will financially benefit
adults. This engenders class warfare, pitting the mature against the nascent,
literally incentivizing our own destruction. Both ethically and empirically,
fetal stem cell research is anathema. It should not be done at all.
