The Weekly Standard is now taking Michael J. Fox to task for his World Series ad on support for a stem cell research ballot initiative.
Writer Ryan Anderson notes that Sen. Jim Talent has supported increased funding for scientific stem cell research that doesn't involve the destruction of a human embryo.
"And it is worth mention that Missouri has a bill on the State ballot that would allow the cloning of human beings and then require their destruction prior to gestation," writes Anderson.
"These ads are repulsive. They play on the hopes and fears of million of Americans who are suffering from debilitating diseases, are caring for loved ones, and yearn for something, anything, to hold onto. They manipulate the public's emotions in the worst imaginable ways, promising them cures that are, in fact, quite uncertain, and pressuring them to forgo their own ethical convictions," Anderson writes.
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Thank you for posting the link to the Weekly Standard article. It was highly informative and very exhaustive in its coverage of the issue.
No one opposes scientific research and the discovery of cures for debilitating disease but it must be done in a way which will not present moral and ethical problems for millions of Americans.
I have heard at least one person who opposes it request that if he is ever diagnosed with a disease which requires the taking of a life in order to save his own that he would prefer to die. I can imagine that millions of Americans who view this as morally and ethically wrong feeling the same way.
Can you imagine the problems it would create for those of us who believe what Amendment 2 would accomplish is immoral and wrong?
Excellent find on this hot topic. I agree with everything Jacke has pointed out.
Hey pbbut- Throw in E.D. and this thing would pass with 90% approval.
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