Stem cell results labeled meager, immoral
A Southern Baptist seminary president has termed findings that embryonic stem cell treatments might have improved the vision of two blind patients "downright ominous."
Might is the key word, said Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He noted that researchers writing for the medical journal Lancet acknowledged that the results could have been due to a placebo effect.
"The use of human embryos in medical experimentation is absolutely immoral," Mohler said in his daily news commentary podcast January 26. "This research involves the intentional destruction of a living human embryo and thus a direct attack upon the dignity of human life."
