The Orlando Sentinel’s tangy Kathleen Parker has a few things about embryonic stem cell research, including a quote from Dr. Bernadine Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health. Healy calls embryonic stem cells ”obsolete.” After these appetizers you can click on the main course below.
though federal dollars still won’t directly fund embryo destruction, federally funded researchers can obtain embryos privately created only for experimentation. Thus, taxpayers now are incentivizing a market for embryo creation and destruction.
Next comes a move to lift the unfortunately named Dickey-Wicker amendment in Congress, which prohibits using tax dollars to create human embryos for research purposes. If the amendment is rescinded, then human embryos can be created and destroyed with federal tax dollars.
Here’s the full article from The Detroit News.
