Your Pastors' Conference Rev. Dr. James Lamb, LFL Executive Director, and other presenters will explore the pastoral, theological, legal, physical, psychological, and sociological aspects of Living With Dying. The National Institutes of Health guidelines, announced August 23, allow federal funding for research with stem cells that have been removed by killing unborn children. The rules forbid research on the unborn child herself, which is prohibited by federal law. Pro-life leaders quickly denounced the guidelines and the use of such stem cells.
Stem cells form very early in the gestation of a human being.
Scientists have found that the embryonic stem cells can be prompted to evolve into the individual types of cells found in each of the organs of the body. He said that even though the actual death of the embryo is not funded by the government, the stem cell research prompts the death. Pro-life people have never been against lifesaving medical research but have opposed killing unborn children to promote it. Brownback points to research which shows that adult bone marrow cells can be turned into what appear to be nerve cells as evidence that research on embryonic stem cells is unnecessary. Under the terms of the guidelines, stem cells used in federally funded research must come from human embryos that were surplus from a fertility clinic.