Thursday, July 20, 2006

President Bush's Veto of the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

Thanks be to God that we have a President who knows the difference between right and wrong. That's why I voted for him. He understands that human life is sacred and that the very youngest, the most vulnerable, even those who don't yet resemble the person they would be had they been given the right to grow normally-- are all human beings. They are alive. All living things belong to a species. The species they belong to is the human species. How difficult a concept is this?

I know that there have been a great many scientific advances in the use of adult stem cells and none in the area of embryonic stem cells. There is only the hope that they might someday work miracle cures. But it seems to me that the argument must be made that it doesn't matter if research done on human embryos might bring about extraordinary cures for horrible diseases. It would still be wrong! And the fact that these embryos would be destroyed otherwise does not in any way change their status as human beings. We should never have allowed the formation of embryos outside of the normal God-given process to begin with. The whole situation just wreaks of evil.

What kind of monster would allow for the exploitation of some human beings for the betterment of others? Apparently the kind who are supposedly serving us in our Congress. May God have mercy on America.

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