Government Blocks Development of Medicines That Can Relieve Human Misery
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Stem Cell Research

Current Situation

 

Stem cell research offers miraculous wonder cures, and delivery of such scientific progress should not be hindered unless there's really an ethical concern.  The Bush Administration has stated it's opinion that ethical concerns become unbearable when the divisions of a fertilized egg reaches about 8 cells, and has instituted barriers to scientific progress that needlessly hinder scientific research.  

This vital area of medical research has basically gotten caught up into the politicized issue of abortion.  No humane person proposes killing human fetuses.  Abortion of a viable fetus is murder, and early in the first trimester of a pregnancy, ethics concerns arise.  My belief is that no ethical concern exists so long as the diameter of a blastocyst (fertilized egg that's developed a little) is less than 1 millimeter in diameter.
Proposed
Changes 		Remove any and all governmental hindrance to medical stem cell research when the blastocyst is less than 1 millimeter in diameter.
Expected
Benefits 		Possible Benefits Include:
bulletMedical scientists are more likely to discover cool new drugs that literally may allow the blind to see and the crippled to walk
bulletOur own government will not prevent our medical professionals from continuing to lead the world in development of advanced medical research