There has been much discussion over the future of embryonic stem cell research over recent days. The following was relayed to me recently:
Theologian Stanley Hauerwas (Notre Dame) confronted a medical researcher who was defending experiments on foetal tissue. He posed the following question: 'What if it were discovered that foetal tissue were a delicacy; could you eat it?' He happened to believe that no amount of benefit to medicine could justify experimenting on foetal tissue: either it is human and deserves respect, or the door is open to all kinds of uses. (The medical researcher was forced to admit that, given the researcher's own logic, there is no reason to forbid Hauerwas's ghastly suggestion).
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