Tolerance oils the machine
By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | Aug 02, 2004
Count on the Boston Globe to print an op-ed piece that perfectly distills the fashionable case for embryonic stem-cell research (in other words, cloning).
When I say it's a "fashionable case," what I meant is that author Ann Parson (no, I don't know who she is, either) makes her presentation based on fashionable ideas, rather than logical arguments. The full case that be reduced to 2 simplistic points:
"Religions are ancient, while science is as modern as the future."
Got that? We're not to think about religion any more. So what replaces faith? You don't need to wait long for the answer."Stem cell medicine makes too much sense for partisanship to hold it back in this country. When the tide is high enough, the vessel will float off the bar; the debate will be over."
In short, as soon as there's enough money in it, we'll all discard our scruples.
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