The following story does not indicate that we should not use stem cells in medical research. It does indicate that there are reasons for concern, and that regulations are necessary. From the BBC:
Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests.
Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them.
Ukraine has become the self-styled stem cell capital of the world.
There is a trade in stem cells from aborted foetuses, amid unproven claims they can help fight many diseases.
But now there are claims that stem cells are also being harvested from live babies.
I have thought that the Bush policy on Federal funding for stem cell research was too restrictive. But critics of the Administration often act as if anyone who wants any limits is some kind of fanatic. The BBC story, if true, is about an atrocity. Anything that can reasonably be done to stop that traffic should be done.
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