So folks are often surprised that I avoid all those "buy pink things for the cure" promotions, unless I can read the fine print-- I am greatly opposed to the Susan G. Komen group. Why? They do good work on trying to cure breast cancer, after all.
Well, they fund embryonic stem cell research - to borrow mom's phrasing, there's no disease she could possibly have that would make it alright to chop up babies. In so many words. (Not a stupid woman, my mother. The phrasing is at least as accurate as 'utilize portions of early division embryos' and touches on the important part of the situation.)
Interestingly, the only arguments I've personally had on this topic were by folks defending ESCR directly, rather than folks who thought curing breast cancer was worth the sacrifice of small humans. The worthless sacrifice, I'll point out, because ESCR hasn't cured jack. ASCR-- adult stem cell research-- has great results so far, and a lot of promise, without moral problems not found in blood donation. But no go there. (A good article here, including the question of supporting a good cause that directly supports a bad one.)
Maybe it's a mindset thing-- ESCR hasn't cured jack, but they'll sacrifice support for actually curing cancer to donate for the use of it for, I suppose, political reasons: they also sacrificed the attendance of Israeli doctors to have a meeting in Egypt.
But hey, what do they know about treating breast cancer?
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