Stem Cell Research
Stem cell research has promising potential to treat
a plethora of diseases. The vast majority of therapeutic benefits come
from adult stem cells from donors, not from the controversial and
unethical embryonic stem cell lines obtained from aborted children.
Nevertheless, the federal government has no lawful
jurisdiction over medical or scientific research, neither to fund it,
nor to regulate it, nor to prohibit it. The federal government is
limited to specifically-enumerated powers, and the Tenth Amendment says
that the powers not delegated to the federal government belong to the
states and to the people. The federal government has lawful authority in
only three crimes: treason, pirating, and counterfeiting.
Of course stem cell research should be regulated,
and of course the exploitation of preborn children should be
criminalized, but this is outside of the jurisdiction of the federal
government. The leaders of the federal government, who take an oath to
uphold and defend the Constitution, should keep their promise and cease
from all funding and regulation of stem cell research.
States should exercise their lawful sovereignty
over the matter and nullify all federal mandates on stem cell research.
They should defy any unlawful and immoral federal attempt to justify the
killing and experimentation of some innocent children. States should
criminalize the killing and exploitation of these preborn children by
abortion and by stem cell researchers, and regulate ethical stem cell
research to ensure that our natural God-given rights are protected.
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