Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

[MikeWaters]

Or what it probably ought to be called--Human Embryo Research.

I have heard a little here and there about it on NPR. Not a single reason given why it might be reasonably, ethically speaking, to limit this.

Of course, if this is our President's viewpoint on related issues, it goes without saying what the country's course will be:

On March 30, 2001, Obama was the only Illinois senator who rose to speak against a bill that would have protected babies who survived late term labor-induced abortion. Obama rose to object that if the bill passed, and a nine-month-old fetus survived a late-term labor-induced abortion was deemed to be a person who had a right to live, then the law would "forbid abortions to take place." Obama further explained the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not allow somebody to kill a child, so if the law deemed a child who survived a late-term labor-induced abortion had a right to live, "then this would be an anti-abortion statute."

http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Ba...a_Abortion.htm

Mormon politicians are not united on the issue of embryonic stem cell research. I don't think the church has a position.

Of course, not surprising given that the church doesn't have an ethically reasoned position against elective abortion.