Stemming the Facts, Pt. 2

Since I received a good number of comments on my last article about embryonic stem-cell research, I wanted to clarify my tack.

Yes I believe that the practice of aborting viable embryos is NOT very desirable, even for the sake of scientific-research...BUT there's a vast difference between viable embryos and human stem-cells grown in the laboratory.

The main crux is that almost every medically-advanced nation on earth has the capability of growing existing lines of human stem-cells in-culture.

Where most people balk is in thinking that such research will lead to more abortions or other equally draconian practices.

I counter with a truth that puts matters into perspective...nuclear-proliferation, for all its draconian implications, is managed in our imperfect-world by people of the utmost integrity...the proof is that as dangerous as nuclear-weapons are, nuclear-conflict has been withheld since it became a potential...since the days of Edward Teller.

I point this out, because medical-research is just as potentially harmful to mankind given its current technological state...yet is managed with equal care.

Where it might become dangerous are in places where the Hippocratic Oath is NOT enforced...places where moral-law is non-existent...but where there are still moral-laws, such abominations find NO refuge.