But for a moment, imagine the morally tone-deaf researcher about to dismember a living human embryo. Using words this way is worse than meaningless because it dulls our God-given aversion to taking innocent human life. An embryo is an individual life in every significant aspect. The cures proposed are certainly no greater goods than might be achieved by spending the same scarce dollars for research on less problematic ways of bringing healing to the sick and dying. Medical researchers have the bad habit of overselling the healing potential of their scientific achievements.
Skepticism is appropriate when wonder cures are promised.
There is no moral justification for destroying a living human embryo in the hope of biomedical progress. Before pursuing questionable research, bioscientists should first test every alternative thoroughly as well as to provide compelling evidence that their proposed research would produce a genuine benefit. To date, the biotech industry has done neither. There are viable alternatives to the use of stem cells from human embryos. In May, Daniel McConchie from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity in Ban nock burn, Illinois, testified before the National Bioethics Advisory Committee.