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Kathryn Jean Lopez posts this on The Corner:

This paper, finally published online today (there has been quiet buzz about it for weeks now), is a big deal.

It shows that a team at Wake Forest University and Harvard created "pluripotent" stem cells from amniotic fluid collected in routine amniocentesis exams during pregnancy (i.e. collected without doing any harm to mother or child). The cells isolated from this amniotic fluid proved capable of transforming into a wide variety of cell types and showed many of the qualities of embryonic stem cells (though without the tendency of those cells to form tumors). It was just published, and hasn't been replicated of course, so we should be careful what we make of it, but these early results are extremely encouraging, and are the latest in a string of studies over the past two years showing that cells like the ones derived from embryos could be produced in ways that don't require the destruction of embryos. Members of the House should certainly think about all these advances as they prepare to vote on a stem cell bill on Thursday. Just as a potential consensus solution to the divisive fight over stem cell presents itself, the Democrats seem intent on forcing the issue back into divisive territory. Studies like this one show that federal funding for embryo-destructive research would not only be unethical, but could well be unnecessary even in the advocates' own terms.

The thing is this. It isn't about curing disease. What it is about is the legitimizing of the destruction of human life. The modern Left is a death-cult. Abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and the destruction of human life for research and industrial purposes are all irresistible to them.

These anti-life practices are literally the sacraments of the new religion. Point out the undeniable fact that while umbilical cord stem cells, adult stem cells and now amniotic fluid stem cells show great promise and are even being used to cure human maladies today embryonic stem cells show little or no promise and you will be assured that if only unlimited destruction of human life is allowed that a great panecea of cures will open up and virtually banish disease and disability from the human race.

Perhaps even Christopher Reeve will rise from the dead and walk again (of course miracles of this magnatude will require more than human sacrifice - we will also need to elect John Edwards).