Dr. James Thomson, the discoverer of embryonic stem cells, said "if human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." Obama clearly has not.
A conclusion I'm drawing is that the idea human embryonic stem cell research makes everyone uneasy since, everyone has their own point of view towards it.
Obama's address was morally unserious in the extreme.
A golden line for me is,"Obama's address was morally unserious in the extreme..."since it shows the outrage of the author. Since, he believes Obama should have an interest in human cloning.
How anyone as sophisticated as Obama can believe this within living memory of Mengele and Tuskegee and the fake (and coercive) South Korean stem cell research is hard to fathom.
I got lost here because I have no knowledge of Mengele and Tuskegee and the fake South Korean cell research.
I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix. Moreover, given the protean power of embryonic manipulation, the temptation it presents to science, and the well-recorded human propensity for evil even in the pursuit of good, lines must be drawn. I suggested the bright line prohibiting the deliberate creation of human embryos solely for the instrumental purpose of research -- a clear violation of the categorical imperative not to make a human life (even if only a potential human life) a means rather than an end.
In a nutshell, this says that he does believe in the creation of human embryos, but there must be boundaries.
This reminds me of the idea that cloning is controversial.
I wonder, why Bush and our government is looking into embryonic stem cells?
I already know this article will have to do with the governments knowledge on the stem cell research.