The reality is not here yet but cabinet ministers could vote soon to authorize the research.  The only question is the ethics of such experimentation.  Dawn Vargo, Associate Bioethics Analyst at Focus of the Family Action, puts it in perspective.

“We’re really seeing kind of a kid in a candy shop mentality, that researchers don’t like to be told ‘no,’ and they like to be able to research the origins of life at every stage of development.”

The research is “incredibly wasteful” according to Richard Doerflinger with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops because it will require thousands of women’s eggs. 

“It’s dangerous for the woman, even the danger of death in some cases, in order to get all these eggs.”

Vargo says each embryo created will die as well in the laboratory.

“We’re now seeing the push to create and destroy human life for research purposes, at any and all cost; even if it means blurring the line between humans and animals.”

And Doerflinger predicts it will be in the next stage of research, when artificial sperm or artificial eggs are possible, that we will see the worst of all unethical outcomes.

“We will only make the kinds of people that we want to have made and we’ll make them for our own purposes. And as often as not we’ll be making them just to destroy them for their cells.”

There is mounting pressure on cabinet members to vote to pass the bill.