Stem Cell Tactics

I'm posting a link to this because it made me so angry when I read it. This guy, Steven Edwards, admits up front that he has "this nagging case of paralysis that makes me passionate about stem-cell policy"

But then he immediately says that embryonic stem-cell policy must change for FINANCIAL reason, stating that it is the #1 threat to Medicare.

So, in his first two breaths, he comes up with a "emotional" and a "financial" reason to destroy more embryos in the search for cures that won't come in time to help him or our Medicare system.

He then goes on to mock Bush's decision to limit federal funding to embryos already destroyed but never seriously mentions Bush's and millions of other people's real concern with Embryonic research.

His ultimate compromise to the allow the 300 embryo's killed since Bush's first executive order to be studied with federal money, as long as the law "encourages research into techniques that don't destroy embryos".

I'm sorry, but if you allow researchers to use the stem-cells from destroyed embryos, there would be no benefit for them to look into ways that don't kill embryos. Currently there IS a lot of effort being made to come up with ways to get stem-cells without killing embryos, and this is precisely because Bush made a firm stand on this issue. For the President to change that now would be silly...almost as silly as this article.

Wired News: Stem Cell Tactics for a New Age