Obama dumps another pro-life measure
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 3/10/2009 5:40:00 AM
A press release by Concerned Women for America (CWA) states Obama signed an executive order yesterday to fund "destructive" embryonic stem-cell research, despite "more efficient [and] effective" alternatives.
CWA's Wendy Wright, who is at the United Nations this week, notes that President Obama said he would not permit reproductive cloning. "That's a bit deceptive. By not banning all forms of human cloning, he's left the door open to clone human beings in order to experiment upon them and to make it illegal to allow a cloned human being to survive," she explains.
According to the CWA leader, the notion expressed in some circles that there are hundreds of thousands of embryos waiting to be used for experiments is false. Wright says most are waiting to be implanted in women who want a baby.
"In order to create all of the embryos that these unethical scientists will want, it's very likely that women, especially young women, will be encouraged to donate their eggs for this research -- and the process of donating can be very dangerous to the women," she points out.
Wright also notes that despite millions of dollars being spent on embryonic stem-cell research in England and California, the results have been "abject failure" because the cells tend to become "deadly tumors."
Douglas Johnson, spokesman for the National Right to Life Committee, was asked about the president's statement that he would oppose reproductive cloning.
"This is the kind of code that's intended to mislead the public," the pro-life leader states. "...[W]hat he's saying is that he doesn't want human clones to be brought to birth; but he's quite conspicuously not saying that he doesn't want to create them in the first place."
Johnson believes the president's action violates current law. "...[T]he president is basically giving a wink to the National Institutes of Health to try to find a way to do that, and they're also giving a signal to Congress that they should try to repeal the law which prohibits it."
And that, Johnson believes, is due to pressure from the bio-tech industry. He fears the end result will be creation of human embryo farms, which will likely lead to millions of dollars in profit.
