Death by Conservatism

" .... The Strongin-Goldbergs, in turn, had nine unsuccessful invitro attempts, and finally had to use marrow from an imperfectly matched unrelated donor to treat their son Henry, who was running out of time. He died of graft vs. host disease at the age of seven. .... One of the reasons that the Strongin-Goldberg family lost Henry was because research on PGD was stalled for a year and a half in the middle of their attempts to use it — stalled by government officials who called it stem cell research, and who feared a slippery slope, and designer babies, and parents who use their children for spare parts. Had this family not lost those 18 months of research time, their real life story might have had a different ending."

Read the whole story (click on the title, above.) Everyone dies, sooner or later, but how much sooner depends on whether the politicians in power are on the side of Man, the animal that lives by his mind - or on the side of faith, of ghosts, and of living and dying in fear of their stupid and arbitrary God. And, depending on which medical technology your life will eventually depend on, consider how many months or years of research time they already took away from your life.