Opposing The Actual Miracle Of Curing Blindness

Recent headlines regarding stem cell research. First from the US, second from the UK. Startling differences. Think of the lives improved and potential industries would could develop.

"The Obama administration took the easy political path on embryonic stem cells last week by proposing to pay for research only on stem cell lines created from surplus embryos at fertility clinics but not on lines created in the laboratory to study particular diseases.

The proposal is not bold enough and will continue to deny federal financing to some potentially promising research. Still it is a significant improvement over former President George W. Bush’s rules that allowed federal support for work with only 21 stem cell lines already created from surplus embryos at fertility clinics."

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"British scientists have developed the world’s first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. Surgeons predict it will become a routine, one-hour procedure that will be generally available in six or seven years’ time."

We need to separate church from state, science from mythology.

The same people who believe in a 2000 year-old story about curing blindness are the ones who oppose the actual miracle happening now.

Source: NYT
Source: TimesUK