Federal Funds Approved to Study Fetal Stem Cells
Life ethics advocates troubled by the discrepancy that allows days-old embryos more protection than more mature fetuses.
Todd Hertz | posted 7/01/2002 12:00AM
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The FRC yesterday issued a letter urging the president to revoke the funding. Connor told CT that if the 1993 law inhibits Bush, he hopes the administration would contest the law as being a violation of the separation of powers principle, which is designed to maintain proper checks and balances.
Using aborted fetuses for federally funded research, Connor says, would "create a perverse incentive to generate more aborted fetal tissue to service the needs of the research community."
Kilner said that the idea of aborted children being used for research could have a profound effect on those considering abortion. He said: "If obtaining stem cells and developing medical treatments becomes a part of what abortion is all about, it then becomes broad knowledge for all women who are making decisions on whether to do an abortion or not. Part of deciding to abort would become a means to do some good, a way to contribute to society."
Todd Hertz is assistant online editor for Christianity Today.
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