Seanad debates

Wednesday, 19 November 2003

Stem Cell Research: Statements.

 

This is not an issue of funding or guidelines. Rather, it is fundamentally an issue of human life and no human life is more insignificant than another. Therefore, that must be the premise upon which we have this debate because the moment that concept is breached, as we have seen in world history, we open ourselves to all excesses. For instance, in the case of slavery the whites genuinely believed they were doing something good to build up their economy by using coloured people as slaves. They tried to convince those same people that it was to their benefit because they were not intellectually capable of looking after their own interests. Such excesses occur when one breaches the inviolable concept of all human life being equal.

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