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...bill, at present, is not guaranteed passage. Governor W. Mitt Romney sent a letter to Travaglini in early February citing moral justifications for his opposition to the creation of new embryos for research purposes. Romney wrote that “respect for human life is a fundamental element of civilized society” and that “lofty goals do not justify the creation of life for experimentation and destruction...
...Although Romney has declined to say whether he will veto the bill, Ann Dufresne, a spokeswoman from Travaglini’s office, said Friday that Travaglini “feels that the bar has been raised...
...accusations commonly made against opponents of stem cell research are really quite beside the point. Romney does not seek to limit “scientific inquiry” in its entirety, but rather an extremely specific and controversial part of it. Romney is not interested in preventing kids from learning about Darwin in high school biology, nor is he interested in limiting the nuclear physics taking place at MIT. He does not even seek to stop researchers from studying and utilizing human embryos. What he in fact seeks to do is prevent the creation of a human life with...
...human embryos that Romney would allow to be utilized in research were created under moral circumstances very different that the ones whose use he would ban. Embryos from fertility clinics are the leftovers of an effort to create a functioning human being: a baby boy or a baby girl that the two parents were otherwise incapable of begetting on their own. Thus while our society has, in the words of Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School Dan W. Brock, “accepted the principle that some embryos won’t be used...
...glance, it is puzzling that Romney would pursue such restrictions, which pit him against both the formidable Boston biotechnology community and an overwhelming Democratic majority in the Massachusetts State Legislature. We speculate that this move may be aimed at nothing more than building arch-conservative credentials for the purposes of a 2008 presidential run. Romney is certainly entitled to hold any sort of personal opinion he chooses about the morality of embryonic stem cell research, but wasting the legislature’s time and energy in order to add another line to his résumé disrespects both...