In what's being hailed as a victory for "science," President Obame today put another nail in the coffin of unborn children and widened the divide that separates much of this nation.
"Our government has forced what I believe is a false choice between sound science and moral values," Obama said as he signed documents changing Bush's policy against embryonic stem cell research. "It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda — and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology."
Some researchers have said that lifting the ban removed the shackles from their work. What everyone is ignoring is that science itself is divided on the effectiveness of embryonic stem cells. Many respected scientists have demonstrated that cord stem cells and a person's own stem cells may be more therapeutic and safer than embryonic cells. And they don't require the sacrifice of a premature life.
The researchers who downplay these facts and the media who ignore them have as much of an agenda as those of us who are pro-life. It's just that they won't admit it. Cloaking their agenda in the jargon of "science" and claiming that their stance is the only enlightened one, they try to portray anyone who disagrees with them as idealogues who ignore facts and put politics before the welfare of others. Does anyone else see the irony in this?
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Science is always a hard subject for me to discuss rationally; being a scientist and all. Part of me truly celebrated that the new president (whom I really don't like) made an excellent decision. Government should not be able to limit scientific research; that is not their job nor should they have the right. I think of all the possibilities that could come from research with stem cells; cures for horrible diseases, custom cures for cancers, organs that won't be rejected, etc. As a believer I only hope that our scientists in the medical field will act morally and ethically in the future research to be done. If one had to select the subject for tonight's prayers I would suggest we pray for morality in our nation's scientists, not that stem cell research be restricted again.
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