The abortion 'industry' and the bio-tech marriage

Biotech Industry Reminded That Human Dignity Must Remain Paramount
from Agape Press
by Bill Fancher and Jody Brown

The biotech industry, which just concluded a huge convention in Chicago, is being challenged by a Christian segment of the industry to avoid ethical lapses.

While BIO 2006 was taking place, the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity -- based in Bannockburn, IL, just north of Chicago -- was on hand to activate the industry's conscience. "We are for biotechnology," explains CBHD's director of communications Joe Carter, "but we believe it needs to be couched in a framework of Christian ethics."

...the biotech industry's ethics have lapsed in recent years. He cites two areas of research as examples of that slip: embryonic stem-cell research and human cloning.

"Most scientists will tell you that any cures [resulting from embryonic stem-cell research] are 20 to 30 years away, if it's even possible, because embryonic stem cells are harder to work with than adult stem cells," he says.

"Another example is therapeutic cloning. There is no such thing as therapeutic cloning. There are no therapies involved with cloning."

The biotech industry, he asserts, "kind of downplays those solid facts and kind of plays up the cures angle, even though they know it's not true."

Carter believes the industry's ethical slide is a result of the issues being tied to the abortion debate, and because many researchers depend on government tax dollars to subsidize their work. He contends

the pro-abortion

community has seized these

ideas as ways to further

dehumanize the unborn.

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