March 9, 2009 | In: Culture of Life, Medical Ethics
Counting the Cost: More Babies Dead
Catholic voters who chose Barak Obama as president must really be kicking themselves (one would hope). While the president has done some good things so far, the death toll continues to mount. This morning President Obama overturned President Bush’s ban on using federal funding for research into embryonic stem cell research.
Once again, the great orator couches his decision in terms that make the opposition unreasonable and self-serving, stating that his decision ensures that no scientific data will be “distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda.”
President Obama further opined:
“Promoting science isn’t just about providing resources, it is also about protecting free and open inquiry,” Obama said. “It is about letting scientists like those here today do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it’s inconvenient especially when it’s inconvenient. It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”
The problem with this line of thought is that the ban on federal funding did nothing to inhibit free and open inquiry. It simply said that federal money would not fund this particular area of scientific research for moral reasons. Taken to its logical conclusion, federal funding should be granted to groups that want to step over other moral lines as well. How can someone with the president’s policy pick and choose which moral lines can be crossed? Let’s experiment on Alzheimer’s patients in ways that will lead to their deaths. Let’s do lethal experimentation on the handicapped. After all, “It is about letting scientists like those here today do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it’s inconvenient especially when it’s inconvenient. It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”
Let’s be clear here. First of all, stem cell research that does not destroy human embryos has developed an increasing numbers of successful treatments. Embryonic stem cell research, which has been prodigiously funded by private sources, treats none. The reason for the failure of embryonic stem cells is that they grow too fast and too unpredictably, resulting in tumors and other abnormal growths. So, why would be be pumping more federal money into research that has born no fruit? One word – money. The scientific or medical company that does develop a cure based on patented stem cell lines has legal custody of that cure. This is not true of adult stem cell developments, since the cure has its source in the patient’s own body.
So, who is serving a political agenda? Obama’s decision potentially benefits “big business” medical research companies much more than it will benefit patients, despite his propaganda about finding cures and advancing medical progress.
My fellow Catholics, what price will we pay for our socially liberal administration that has so far shown no signs of decreasing the body count on the war, but every sign of increasing the body count of our innocent unborn?
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