Stem Cell Research Good, Religious Nuts Bad

The ongoing debate in Republican and Christian circles over the use of embryonic stem cells in research for otherwise incurable diseases is puzzling and hypocritical.

The National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children recently accused President Obama of violating constitutional rights of a frozen embryo and "enslaving" it like the Nazis did Jews during the Holocaust.

Their lawsuit suggests that "government funding of human embryo stem cell research and experimentation is what led to the Nazi experimentation on concentration camp prisoners during World War II."

These religious nuts are not only completely ridiculous and scientifically ignorant, but they're apparently also anti-Semitic.

The fact of the matter is that embryonic stem cells have real potential to reverse the painful, crippling effects of increasingly common diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and diabetes.

This would in turn give people who are already alive and capable of feeling pain and suffering a second chance at living their life. But these anti-stem cell groups call it murder of "human life." The embryos used for medical research consist of 50 to 100 individual cells, which the last time I checked is far less than a living human.

These groups are adamantly against this type of "murder" but are also completely willing to send young, 100 trillion-celled human life to war, knowing full well there will be real-life casualties.

But don't worry, these religious circles who hate potentially curing dreadful diseases can justify the death of soldiers and civilians in war by praying for their safety.

Instead of praying for the soldiers they know are likely going to die, how about praying for the Alzheimer's or Parkinson's sufferers who are being denied a likely cure to their miseries.

Well, that would just be a nose dive further into hypocrisy. You can't pray for them to get better when you're already praying for federal judges to basically kill them.

And if "enslaving" embryos is just like Jews being enslaved during the Holocaust, what about those being actually enslaved by degenerative neurological diseases? They probably wouldn't stoop to a comparison like that.

What ever happened to helping the meek?