This Blog considers assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, radical environmentalism, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)
Germany has a more restrictive policy on these issues than the USA. Here is a story about the country's attempt to ban all EU funding of ESCR. (And guess what: Germany doesn't have a "religious right.")
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 11:55 AM
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I am a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute and the author of 12 books, including A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy, which is relevant to the issues considered by this blog.
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This is off point, but this story mentions embryonic stem cell research once, but then just keeps talking about stem cells and human stem cells. I've noticed a huge media disposition not to distinguish between the two types of stem cell research. I know that happens all the time with the refusal to say SCNT is Cloning, but the refusal to distinguish was very noticable to me this week.
This leaves two impressions. 1. That opponents of ESCR are anti-research and anti-patient. ESCR supporters have promised to label us as that. 2. That adult stem cell sucesses are embryonic because "all stem cell research" is (or appears) after all, embryonic when you don't distinguish between the two.
Give that man a Cupie Doll!
Maybe that backrub of Chancellor Merkel did some good!!
;)
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