If God so loved us that he allowed Jesus to be sacrificed for the betterment of mankind, wouldn't God incourage stem cell research? Jesus cured so many sick people, surely he would not be against finding cures for so many illnesses.
2006-11-03 08:02:45 · 4 answers · asked by waynesworldstage 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, God would say, "Stem cell research is not illegal, and we should allow private enterprise to continue building this country in the same manner that it has for the last 200+ years."
2006-11-03 09:13:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not now nor has it ever been illegal to do research on embryonic stem cells. The debate is about whether government ( that is the taxpayer) should fund it. And i for one do not believe the proper role for government is to forcibly take money that i've earned and use it for scientific research.
Furthermore, if embryonic stem cell research is so promising, as its supporters would have us believe, then private companies would be lined up around the block to fund it because they would be the ones cashing in on the profits when a cure was found.
And GOD so loved the world that he sent Jesus to die in our place so that we might be saved from sin and live for GOD.
2006-11-03 16:36:38 · answer #2 · answered by mikey 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well for one, stem cell research is not illegal, just severely limited by lack of federal funding that would enable them to create new stem cell lines. Currently, researchers in the United States may do research but only with existing, old cell lines that have been around for years and are becoming less and less viable as time passes and as copies of the lines are made.
Think of a xerox copy of an original document...if you keep making copies of the copies eventually the end copy will only vaguely resemble the original. Such is the case when stem cell lines are copied for research. This is why researchers are pushing to be able to create new ones. It's the creation of the new ones that is illegal.
As far as what God might or might not think, the politicians in power are only thinking of their own constituents and their own twisted beliefs, who are of the opinion that scientists will begin creating embryos to harvest stem cells from, or that they will being trying to clone human beings.
As it stands now, the idea is to use embryos that have been frozen by people who feel they may not be able to conceive naturally in the future or by people who are undergoing invitro fertilization. A great many of these frozen embryos are never used and are then destroyed because IVF labs just don't have the storage space to keep them all indefinitely and they aren't viable forever even frozen.
The plan is to use these embryos that are going to be destroyed anyway to create new stem cell lines to work with. But the conservatives don't want this to happen...better they just be destroyed when they mght have helped save someone.
2006-11-03 16:24:09 · answer #3 · answered by Chanteuse_ar 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It isn't illegal. There is no federal funding for it.
2006-11-03 16:08:31 · answer #4 · answered by Your Best Fiend 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋