Embryonic Research
can I ask readers to consider the following in respect of the bill now going through Parliament in respect of embryonic research.Now we know that scientists receive government funding for medical research. Now there are some pretty brilliant scientists who still have some ethical and moral issues over some aspects of embryonic research. Consider if they are told that unless they perform this type of research then they will not get any funding. A fanciful suggestion you may say but enter the real world.Furthermore, the scientist discovers a procedure which will solve the problem of Parkinsons or Alzheimers diseases. However, in order to further his research he has to go further than the law allows. Will he have to stop or will he go to a lobbyist who will get Parliament to go further than was intended. Who would deny anybody the opportunity to cure these diseases!For me it is the same argument about organ transplants and IVF, even birth control and abortion. We have opened pandorras box and we are soon to reap the whirlwind. No good will come of this. If it was found that the Nazi scientists had been doing some of these experiments, all for a good cause of course, then at the end of the war they would have been prosecuted for crimes against humanity. That is unless they were of course rocket scientists in which case they would have been employed by the American government.


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