Thirteen embryonic stem-cell lines were approved for use by U.S.-funded researchers today, the first of hundreds of cell colonies that may become available under new polices promised by President Barack Obama.
Stem cells taken from days-old human embryos can be kept alive indefinitely in solution, and have the ability to turn into about 200 cell types in the body. Use of these so-called cell lines is opposed by some people because extracting them destroys the embryos. The stem-cell expansion was announced today by Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, in a telephone briefing with reporters.
Well let’s just find another way to offer our little kiddies to the hot, molten hands of Molech and see what blessings this will bring! Sad.
There seems to be a lot of talk about stock prices and money but the story seems to be somewhere here:
[blockquote]The NIH conducted a “rigorous†review to make sure the stem cells approved today were made from embryos that were freely donated by women who were not compensated or induced in any way to provide them, Collins said. Scientists had to submit evidence that donors were informed of all options on use of their embryos and provided written consent.[/blockquote]
So what happens? Do couples deliberately conceive with the aim of having their putative children harvested?
There is not much that is Christian about this. All those nightmare films from one’s childhood seem to be coming true.
I am sure that the Mayans had an ethical way to do human sacrifice too.
Pageantmaster, these are probably “leftovers” from in-vitro fertilization procedures, where the parents have enough children who were implanted and brought to term and born. These extras are expendable from their point of view.
Thirteen now, twenty more to come.
Funding from HHS – our tax dollars at work.
::sigh::
What did we expect, people? It will get darker before the Lord returns, much darker.
Weep for the children – even those that might have never survived past being “frozen” embryos – God knows their names.
[blockquote]Stem cells taken from days-old human embryos can be [b]kept alive[/b] indefinitely in solution, and have the ability to turn into about 200 cell types in the body. . . . [i](emphasis mine)[/i][/blockquote]
Interesting turn of phrase, this. It seems to be vitally important that the individual cells be [i]kept alive indefinitely[/i], but the embryo from which they came (and which, not incidentally, has the ability to turn into a mass of several millions of cells which can act as a single unit, namely a human being) is considered to be of no consequence.