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Embryo research is wrong
Mar 30 2008 Sunday Sun
THERE is no scientific evidence to suggest that the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill will lead to major advances in medicine and the treatment of fatal diseases.
To date, embryonic stem cell research has not yielded one single clinical benefit. Animal trials suggest that they are too genetically unstable and too likely to form lethal tumours to be used for treatment.
Tests using human adult stem cells, however, have produced significant and encouraging results in the areas of Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, cardiovascular disease, sickle-cell anaemia, and dozens of other conditions without posing any moral problem.
On a biological level, the pre-natal being is not like any other tissue . . . it is human with its own DNA, indicating that — as a human — it has the same fundamental and moral right to life as any other human being.
Human welfare does not demand that scientists pursue every avenue available.
On the contrary, human welfare depends upon a shared responsibility that involves moral limits. The respect for every human life, for example, is an essential condition if a societal life worthy of the name is to be possible. When man’s conscience loses respect for life as something sacred, he inevitably ends by losing his own identity — PAUL KOKOSKI, Ontario, Canada.
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