{"id":2181,"date":"2007-01-12T09:04:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/12\/stem-cell-miracle-an-advance-this-side-of-bushs-moral-line\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T09:04:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T14:04:41","slug":"stem-cell-miracle-an-advance-this-side-of-bushs-moral-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/stem-cell-miracle-an-advance-this-side-of-bushs-moral-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Stem Cell Miracle? An Advance This Side Of Bush&#8217;s Moral Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.JewishWorldReview.com\">Jewish World Review<\/a> Charles Krauthammer January 12, 2007<\/p>\n<p>When President Bush announced in August 2001 his restrictive funding decision for federal embryonic stem cell research, he was widely attacked for an unwarranted intrusion of religion into scientific research. His solicitousness for a 200-cell organism \u2014 the early embryo that Bush declared should not be destroyed to produce a harvest of stem cells \u2014 was roundly denounced as reactionary and anti-scientific. And cruel to boot. It was preventing a cure for thousands of people with hopeless and terrible diseases, from diabetes to spinal cord injury. As John Edwards put it most starkly and egregiously in 2004: If John Kerry becomes president, Christopher Reeve will walk again. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This kind of stem cell advocacy did not just shamefully inflate its promise. It tended to misrepresent the basis for putting restrictions on embryonic research, insisting that it was nothing more than political enforcement of the religious fundamentalist belief that life begins at conception. <\/p>\n<p>This has always been a tendentious characterization of the argument for restricting stem cell research that relies on the destruction of embryos. I have long supported legal abortion. And I don&#8217;t believe that life \u2014 meaning the attributes and protections of personhood \u2014 begins at conception. Yet many secularly inclined people such as myself have great trepidation about the inherent dangers of wanton and unrestricted manipulation \u2014 to the point of dismemberment \u2014 of human embryos.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/krauthammer011207.php3\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish World Review Charles Krauthammer January 12, 2007 When President Bush announced in August 2001 his restrictive funding decision for federal embryonic stem cell research, he was widely attacked for an unwarranted intrusion of religion into scientific research. His solicitousness for a 200-cell organism \u2014 the early embryo that Bush declared should not be destroyed &#8230; <a title=\"Stem Cell Miracle? An Advance This Side Of Bush&#8217;s Moral Line\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/stem-cell-miracle-an-advance-this-side-of-bushs-moral-line\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Stem Cell Miracle? An Advance This Side Of Bush&#8217;s Moral Line\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sanctity-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}