Imagine that you're the manager of a baseball team. You're down by a run and the bases are loaded in the bottom half of the last inning with two outs. You have to make a choice. You have two potential pinch hitters available.
One is an all-star with a batting average over .300. The other player has struck out every time. To be honest, it's time he's sent back to the minors because he has yet to do anything that proves that he belongs in the big leagues. Which one will you choose?
Our president had the same decision to make on stem cell research. Adult stem cell research, the kind that does not destroy human life, has helped to provide treatments and cures for over 70 diseases. Not bad. Embryonic stem cell research, the kind that destroys actual human life (and not potential human life)...zero. Yet, Barak Obama decided that our tax dollars should go to research which has yet to produce a cure, in spite of the fact that it has received tremendous funding through the private sector and from other governments.
Of course, even if embryonic stem cell research produced many cures, that would not justify destroying innocent human life. The fact that it has repeatedly struck out only makes this decision all the more baffling.
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