Pro-lifers respond to TV ads featuring Danforth, initiative on stem-cell research
Don’t believe everything you see on TV.
That’s the message leaders of several pro-life groups here and across the state want to share with Catholics in response to two television ads supporting embryonic stem-cell research.
The ads, sponsored by the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures, began airing last weekend and promote the coalition’s Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative. The effort would add an amendment to the state constitution preventing a ban on embryonic stem-cell research.
"The deception is just outrageous. It has me sputtering mad," said Pam Fichter, president of Missouri Right to Life, one of several pro-life organizations that have been working to ban human cloning and embryonic stem-cell research in the state.
A 30-second spot features former U.S. Sen. John Danforth, who says, "My entire political career I voted pro-life, and that is exactly why I favor the stem-cell initiative. I believe in saving human life. I want cures to be found, and I want the scientists, the physicians, who are here in our state of Missouri to participate in finding these cures. Please join me in supporting the stem-cell initiative."
What Fichter and other pro-life groups said they want the public to know is that the ads do not clearly state the details of the initiative and what it means for voters.
For example, one of the ads claims that the initiative will ban human cloning, said Fichter, but according to the coalition’s stance on the issue, the ban would only include reproductive human cloning — which is defined as cloning a human to be brought to term.
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"They don’t point out that embryonic stem cells have not been responsible for a single successful treatment, and adult cells have," she said, Adult stem cells are "ethical, and they’re legal, and they don’t destroy human life."
It's unfortunate that many people will be mislead by this self-proclaimed "pro-life" former Senator and 'minister'. I believe that further investigation will show that a member of the Danforth family is one of a number who will benefit financially by conducting "experiments" on human embryos - all while claiming they are not human. One might legitimately wonder why there is such a push to promote this lie? As with many thing of this nature, may one reasonably assume that it is all about money? Might one assume it's not really about saving lives but hoping one might obtain a lucrative patent? How is it even possible to believe people who propose to experiment and kill the most innocent human life? Pathetic!
Perhaps the good 'minister' should review some basic biology, ethics, and morality...Maybe then, he might respond to graces God is giving him so that he might abandon this demonic effort in which he is engaged. We can hope and pray!
The St Louis Review article is here. (Again, the Review article is by subscription only - Why, you ask? Good question! They wouldn't answer me.)
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