From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Aug 12 2001 - 23:34:49 MDT
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The split became clear on Friday when 11 anti-abortion allies called the
news conference at the Press Club, where they accused Mr. Bush of missing a
historic opportunity to close the door on stem cell research.
"The president's position contradicts the Nuremberg Code," said Wendy
Wright, the communications director of Concerned Women for America, a
conservative public policy group. "We should be horrified at the prospect
of participating in research on embryos who are deliberately killed for the
same reason that we are horrified that gold fillings were taken from the
teeth of Holocaust victims."
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We should not be horrified at the prospect of participating in research on
embryos that are deliberately killed for the same reason we are not
horrified that transplant organs are taken from the corpses of accident
victims if permission has been granted.
We should not be horrified at the prospect of participating in research on
embryos that are deliberately killed for the same reason we are not
horrified that skin cells are abraded from the faces of people washing
themselves.
(Those embryos cannot be nurtured, brought to term and born as baby humans
without immense scientific and technological intervention. Now that nuclear
transfer is possible, the nuclear DNA and associated factors in any skin
cell has the same possibility of becoming a separate human if known
technologies are employed. Should we stop washing our faces to stop this
carnage of `potential lives'?)
Damien Broderick
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