Charles Krauthammer in today’s Patriot Post on embryonic stem cell research- one of the top 3 Democrat peices of legislation being advanced in the first “100 hours.”
You don’t need religion to tremble at the thought of unrestricted embryo research. You simply have to have a healthy respect for the human capacity for doing evil in pursuit of the good. Once we have taken the position of many stem cell research advocates that embryos are discardable tissue with no more intrinsic value than a hangnail or an appendix, then all barriers are down. What is to prevent us from producing not just tissues and organs but humanlike organisms for preservation as a source of future body parts on demand?
The fact that Krauthammer is permanently disabled- confined to a wheel-chair, in my humble opinion ,gives him a fair ammount of credibilty on this issue.
Entire article here