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Connecticut Governor Signs $100M Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

The lure of moloch continues. This time Connecticut falls under the sway:

Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell, a Republican, signed legislation Wednesday that would spend $100 million in taxpayer funds for grants for stem cell research, including research on embryonic stem cells taken by destroying human life.

"Stem cells hold a huge amount of hope for the future of medicine," Rell said at the bill signing, according to an Associated Press report. "This is really a day of great promise. I don't think I can say that enough."

Exactly what is the huge hope based on, Governor? The overwhelming evidence that cures are around the corner? The thousands that have died and will die as more cryogenically frozen children are thawed out and put under the knife?

Sure, it's easy to just call embryos cells. Keeps the messy killing part out of all this research. If embryos are just cells, then how come there aren't a few million me walking around? Or any of us, for that matter. We shed cells everyday. I don't see fully grown copies of us anywhere. Could it be because (gasp!) human beings don't develop from mere cells? Well, apparently scientists and politicians fail to understand a fact that even an educated child knows: humans develop from embryos. That makes embryos human beings. Period.

But, hey. Everything's just fine. After all, researchers will let the kids live. For a while:

The law prohibits human embryos used in research from growing past 14 days, which detractors say mandates that all days-old unborn children must be killed for their stem cells.

The maurauding continues.