Back to fetishizing the future?
Sometimes the heralds of scientific progress are just plain morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably and reliably wrong:
Although there are vast differences between the eugenics movement of the past and the stem-cell research of the present, there is an eerie similarity to their rhetoric and tactics. Like eugenics, promoters of embryonic-stem-cell research talk of its endless promise, declaring it the scientific “path to the future,” as two state senators from Massachusetts wrote in a recent opinion piece. Embryonic-stem-cell promoters claim that their science will lead to cures for a range of diseases and the alleviation of much human suffering. And they denounce those who question the ethics of their pursuit as backward or blindly religious. But as we continue to debate the ethics of embryonic-stem-cell research, it is worth recalling that movements waged in the name of scientific progress often leave a troubled legacy
Although there are vast differences between the eugenics movement of the past and the stem-cell research of the present, there is an eerie similarity to their rhetoric and tactics. Like eugenics, promoters of embryonic-stem-cell research talk of its endless promise, declaring it the scientific “path to the future,” as two state senators from Massachusetts wrote in a recent opinion piece. Embryonic-stem-cell promoters claim that their science will lead to cures for a range of diseases and the alleviation of much human suffering. And they denounce those who question the ethics of their pursuit as backward or blindly religious. But as we continue to debate the ethics of embryonic-stem-cell research, it is worth recalling that movements waged in the name of scientific progress often leave a troubled legacy
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As coroner, I must aver. I've thoroughly examined it and they're not only merely wrong, they're really most sincerely wrong.
It's hard to believe that the same people who want a law to protect them from every imaginable danger and justify the intrusiveness with "if it saves only one life, it will be worth it" are the same people who will not give the benefit of the doubt to a fetus. They can't even admit there's a tiny chance that abortion and stem cell research just might be the same as killing someone. No, they cannot even bring themselves to admit that maybe, just maybe, the other side (pro-life), might have a point and shouldn't we think about this a little before marching forward into the a future where babies are just parts factories.
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