A while back scientists were making revolutionary breakthroughs in stem cell research. Unfortunately they fell foul of interpretations of thousand year old texts in foreign languages, and a government with the scientific understanding of a squashed grape said "Sorry, our kind and loving God requires that people continue to suffer from Parkinson's, anemia, and various other horrible ailments." Luckily, scientists are awesome and did the obvious thing - make ANOTHER revolutionary breakthrough to get around the problem.
The previous problem with stem cells was that they came from aborted or
otherwise unviable fetuses. Note that these fetuses had been
terminated anyway, and the only issue now was whether it was more moral
to chuck the goo in a bin and burn it, or use it to help cure the
sick. The ethical answer, apparently, isn't what you think.
This issue can now be sidestepped with the creation of induced
pluripotent stem cells (IPS) from any kind of tissue
clipped from: www.dailygalaxy.com 