However, I beg to differ with Chris Weinkopf's opinion in the fetal stem-cell research issue. The tissue used in . . . Our bodies are used for medical experimentation all the time. Every new drug approved for public use by government, every new surgical procedure, every new physical therapy treatment is tried out on humans. The evaluation period goes on beyond the approval process, and data is examined for many years.
Some people die from it.
Bruce Lee's name springs to mind, killed by a cold remedy, I believe. The big difference is consent. Embryos cannot give consent. It would not be alive but for science in the first place, and as we can all at least admit, acorns are not mighty oaks. The rhetoric surrounding this issue is of the same silly nature as that in the gun debate, and as devoid of logic.