Thank you Obama

TC

I thank God for stem cell research and I thank Obama for lifting the restrictions on stem cell testing. If God did not intend us to go along those paths, he would have never given the scientists the intelligence to perform said research.

For you anti-stem cell activists who say that this research is an abomination because that’s not what God intended; have you ever taken an aspirin? Have you ever taken any medication? If so you are a hypocrite.

What if society dictated to not allow Sir Alexander Fleming to pursue his invention of penicillin in 1928? Or Edward Jenner in 1796, who invented the small pox vaccine? What if Dr. Christian Bernard were banned from performing open heart surgery? Where would we be today? Probably with life spans only to 45 years old.

I’ll bet that a vast majority of you naysayer’s if faced with the decision to either let your child die or have the chance of experimental research to save his/her life, you would chose the latter. You would make no different decision if it were a choice to have antibiotics save your child or die. If God didn’t intend for us to save people with medicine he wouldn’t have given the scientists the knowledge to do so.

If you believe in God, then you should believe that he works through all of us, good or bad. What paths we choose from what he gives us in intelligence determines our final outcome at judgment time.

Should we create embryos to destroy them? I say no. But, for the ones that they will destroy anyway, I feel that is wasteful, if you could save a life. If you believe in organ donations after death, it is no different in my opinion. 

That is what this forum is…. an expression for differences of opinion.