Sometimes wasting time on Facebook makes me laugh, other times it makes me want to vomit. Like when I stumbled onto the group “Support Stem Cell Research.” The description: “Because the misdirected values of a few should not hinder the health and well-being of billions.” That’s what Hitler said about experimenting on the Jews....
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Blastocysts and Reason…Radical Dude
Bill, you write: refusing to fund embryonic stem cell research because it involves “killing innocent human life,” but similarly refusing to push a ban on all embryonic stem cell research. Imagine, if you will, a law that bans governmental funding for murder, but refuses to actually criminalize “privately-funded” murders….To Sandel, this is...
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Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Blastocysts?!
Michael Sandel–the communitarian political philosopher at Harvard and former member of the President’s Council on Bioethics–fires a Boston Globe broadside into the President’s “don’t ban, don’t fund” policy on embryonic stem-cell research. I’m not too big of a fan of Sandel (in my opinion, political philosophy at Harvard died twice in 2002), but he...
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