| Re: New True Debate #2: Jallman vs Billo_Really
I appreciate my opponent's ardor and thoughtfulness with which he pursued his stance. However, despite his passion for the subject, the facts still remain: research is a work in progress and in the field of therapeutic cloning, there have been leaps every couple of years. The potential benefits of this research far outweigh the objections.
I understand that there are moral objections to embryonic stem cell research. However, holding up legitimate life saving research while an entirely different debate (abortion and the right to life) is hashed out is absurd. There are no restrictions on the destruction of embryos and, in fact, thousands are destroyed every year as a result of fertility treatments. Immeasurable potential is incinerated every time we let one of these already doomed embryos go to waste.
Further, as I have shown, there are ways to produce stem cell lines with oout harming the embryo. Therefore, any moral objection to the use of therapeutic cloning is a moot point. Ninety thousand people currently waiting for organs...and each has an expected 5 year wait. That wait doubles by 2010. Ninety thousand people are the reason we should move forward and advance this technology. Ninety thousand people a year don't have the luxury of philosophizing and issue when the answer is already so clear. |