One hopes that Congress isn t equally trusting, as they oversee NIH operations. Unlike Mike, I do value the consistency principle-there s certainly no other way to deal with the issue of human life. Stem-cell research is not a good end coming out of a bad means. It s bad. It s destroying human life.
Couples adopt embryos.
Let s encourage that. With thousands of couples in the United States who suffer from the heartbreaking disease of infertility, there s a truly good end we can all embrace. Even though Congress long ago banned the federal funding of the destruction of human embryos, the NIH has sought to circumvent Congress by arguing that the law doesn t include stem-cell research because stem cells aren t embryos. Never mind that you have to destroy an embryo to get to the stem cells. And never mind that what the law prohibits, specifically, is, research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.