People who think that have obviously never set foot inside a church. Like any demographic segment there are as diverse a set of opinions as you might have at your average beat M*ch*g*n party.
That being said I walked into a conversation at church Sunday on the topic of Stem Cell research. Now I know liberals like to think Christians never put down the bible and are otherwise uninformed, but in reality it’s liberals who rarely read past the headlines and learn the facts about stem cell research.
I’m going to base the rest of this blog post on these three facts:
- Embryonic stem cell research is legal (just not funded by the federal government)
- Embryonic stem cell research has yielded ZERO treatments
- Adult stem cell research has yielded over seventy treatments
The conversation began somewhere around the point that the government should permit stem cell research.
Of course I had an opinion and said that the government does permit it, they’re just not funding it. Private industry has done plenty of research as well but because there are no results it has become a money hole and thus they have focused efforts on adult stem cell research where the rewards are abundant.
The reply was that the government should fund it because there are so many cures that could come from stem cell research.
At this time I defined the differences between adult and embryonic stem cells. Of course embryonic stem cells only come from aborted fetuses.
That’s when I was presented with the great myth: embryonic stem cells are untyped and can be made to become any kind of cell.
Well that’s a great theory, but it has yet to be proven in practice, whereas adult stem cells are providing over seventy cures for varying diseases.
Now I rarely get political at church, but I had to play my pro-life card here. You do realize that the only way to get embryonic stem cells is from aborted fetuses? And the real political motivation behind the stem cell issue is to legitimize the practice of abortion.
“Well, what else are you going to do with an aborted fetus?”
Sometimes you just aren’t prepared to react. This coming from someone who lives her faith, and is even in seminary with the hopes of becoming a pastor.
If I may take a take a page from Ann Coulter, the church of liberalism isn’t so much without God, just trying to become him.
But you don’t have to take my word on the miracles of adult stem cells, here are two articles with the details on everything I’ve said above.
Enjoy.
