Best of the Blogosphere: Culture of Life

The KC Star is, in my view, the most biased newspaper in the country in its reporting on the ESCR/human cloning controversy. For example, when the political decision was made by promoters of human cloning research in MO to rename embryonic stem cells "early" stem cells, the paper made the shift without missing a beat. And it continually pimps the Stowers Institute line that unless Missouri whole-heartedly supports its desire to engage in human cloning research, why scientists will refuse to work for Stowers and the biotechnology industry will leave the state--never mind that most biotech is not controversial and doesn't involve cloning or embryonic stem cells.

Well, the paper has done it again in this whining editorial about how the "uncertainty" caused by continued resistance in MO to human cloning research is making life tough for Stowers. Read more from Wesley J. Smith at Secondhand Smoke.
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As part of a research project on stem cell research and politics, I am going to be answering questions regarding life issues. I have decided to share some of the answers here.

The first question asks me to describe my pro-life activism since the 1970's.

In 1975, when I was in 7th grade, and Roe v Wade the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion throughout all 9 months of pregnancy was two years old, I had two single women, the Didwell sisters, as Catechism teachers. Since we were an all-girl class, and the curriculum was vaccuous, they used the opportunity to tell us the horrors of abortion. I have never lived one day since then without thinking about how many thousands of children are killed each day. Only now that I have lost three children to miscarriage myself, I often think about the emotional scars of the mothers as well. Read more from Leticia at causa nostrae laetitiae.

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Why not hear the answer to this critical question as given by someone who actually performed them...and stopped because of the damage to women that abortion was causing?
Here is the brief overview of the issues involved from Dr. Beverly McMillan. Read more from Denny at Vital Signs Blog.

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