In a surprise turnabout, Sen. Jim Talent withdrew his support Friday for a controversial ban on human cloning and offered what he said was a compromise proposal that would heal the deep divide over stem cell research.
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Even as Talent outlined his new proposal, saying he'd spent a year researching the issue, he still declined to take a position on a Missouri initiative petition that has made the stem cell debate so hot at home.
How can he
NOT take a position on Danforth and company's efforts to become mad scientists in their quest to become like God? Is he afraid of "St Jack"?
"I'm going to cross that bridge when I get to it. I'm not there yet," Talent said Friday of the Missouri initiative, which would protect certain types of embryonic stem cell research. That measure has torn apart the GOP, with key business leaders, Gov. Matt Blunt, and other Republicans backing it and abortion-rights foes staunchly opposing it.
Any politician who supports the wanton murder of innocent human life deserves to be rejected at the ballot box. We need to pray that these individuals accept the grace God gives them to see the truth...
Talent said Friday he will promote altered nuclear transfer, or ANT, as a new avenue of research that could end the political impasse. Under ANT, a cell is genetically altered so that it can't ever develop into an embryo. Proponents say the process - still being developed and studied - avoids the dicey questions involved in traditional stem cell research.
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