The Common Lawyer
“But he also believed in science. He did not hold to the view that those beliefs were mutually exclusive, that to believe in God meant one must deny science or to believe in science one must deny God.He was a faithful scientist. He had always followed the science wherever it led him, without moral, ethical, religious, or political restraints, because those restraints, he believed, were man-made, not God-made. But he had grown weary of American politics that restrained science. Too many Americans believed faith trumped science, as if God had given us our inquiring minds but demanded that we ignore the world around us—the very world God had created, directly or indirectly. He had tired of people who used politics to enforce their moral and religious restraints on science.Stem cell treatment might well be the medical breakthrough of the century, but the religious right possessed the political power to take stem cells out of play in America—simply because scientists termed the process "emb...ryonic stem cells." The anti-abortionists latched onto the word "embryo" like a Doberman Pincher's teeth into a T-bone steak and dragged an entire field of scientific research into the abortion debate—notwithstanding the fact that no human life is aborted.Scientists create embryonic stem cells by taking the sick patient's skin cells and extracting the nucleus.MoreLess
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