LIFE ISSUES FORUM
March 6, 2009
For Immediate Release
Science’s Rightful Place
By Richard M. Doerflinger
Though tempered by sober realism, President Obama’s inaugural address in January delivered a message of hope – including a hope that science will help our nation solve its serious problems. “We will restore science to its rightful place,” he said, “and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its costs.”
Now the President is considering whether to force U.S. taxpayers to subsidize research that requires destroying live human embryos. I hope he remembers his pledge to take science seriously -- because science is moving on, and embryonic stem cells are becoming “obsolete.”
That’s the considered judgment of the first female director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Bernadine Healy, writing in the March 4 issue of U.S. News and World Report. Dr. Healy cites a recent study in Israel, showing the formation of multiple tumors in a boy’s nervous system after he was treated with derivatives from early fetal stem cells...
to read the rest of the article go here... http://www.usccb.org/prolife/publicat/lifeissues/030609.shtml
March 6, 2009
For Immediate Release
Science’s Rightful Place
By Richard M. Doerflinger
Though tempered by sober realism, President Obama’s inaugural address in January delivered a message of hope – including a hope that science will help our nation solve its serious problems. “We will restore science to its rightful place,” he said, “and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its costs.”
Now the President is considering whether to force U.S. taxpayers to subsidize research that requires destroying live human embryos. I hope he remembers his pledge to take science seriously -- because science is moving on, and embryonic stem cells are becoming “obsolete.”
That’s the considered judgment of the first female director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Bernadine Healy, writing in the March 4 issue of U.S. News and World Report. Dr. Healy cites a recent study in Israel, showing the formation of multiple tumors in a boy’s nervous system after he was treated with derivatives from early fetal stem cells...
to read the rest of the article go here... http://www.usccb.org/prolife/publicat/lifeissues/030609.shtml
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