Rep. Andre Jacque has an excellent op-ed in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Respect for human dignity is essential in the authorization and conduct of scientific research, a point underscored by numerous and horrific past failures to establish or follow such protocols. Yet as a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate with substantial coursework in the biological sciences, I heard the declaration from more than one of my professors that the ethical questions surrounding pushing the boundaries of scientific inquiry should be "set aside and dealt with later" if there was "great potential" for medical breakthroughs.Imagine what atrocities can be justified by such a philosophy! We can do better. I have introduced Assembly Bill 214 to establish reasonable standards for human tissue research and to prohibit the sale or use of aborted fetal body parts for experimentation or other purposes.
The whole op-ed is outstanding. Read the entirety here. Wish I had written that myself!
The chancellor of UW-Madison sent the below letter attacking Rep. Jacque's bill to all legislators. Spin, spin, spin. The letter is a testament to the degree of intellectual rationalization and modernism in our society as a whole. See the line, "Nothing we are doing is illegal.".............. Which is the whole point of the legislation! Everything Hitler did was legal, too, remember that?
The chancellor of UW-Madison sent the below letter attacking Rep. Jacque's bill to all legislators. Spin, spin, spin. The letter is a testament to the degree of intellectual rationalization and modernism in our society as a whole. See the line, "Nothing we are doing is illegal.".............. Which is the whole point of the legislation! Everything Hitler did was legal, too, remember that?
UW Fetal Research