Stem Cell Veto

Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.

President Bush used his first presidential veto recently to knock down a bill allowing federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.  The bill had a surprising number of supporters in both the Senate and the House, but as we all know, consensus is not a gauge of truth.  The bill, if it became law, would allow the destruction of up to thousands of frozen embryos for the use of their stem cells in research.

If you believe life begins at conception then you might see this bill as destroying human lives.  In predictable fashion, however, the veto is being cast in terms of science versus religion.  What is not often noted is that science is not on the side of embryonic stem cells.  Their uses are only potential and possibly decades away from application while non-destructive means of therapy are already available and in use.  Don’t let the propaganda fool you-what is labeled as religious in this debate is also the scientific winner.

This has been Every Thought Captive.  I’m Phil Steiger, pastor at Quail Lake Community Church and Director of Dayspring Center for Christian Studies.  For more information, please visit everythoughtcaptive.org.