It Was Never About The Stem Cells

This is a fascinating bit of news, not that it will make any difference to the abortion rights crowd that simply used the issue to advance their jihad against the fetus:

Stem cells found plentiful in amniotic fluid
By Paul Elias, Associated Press

Scientists reported yesterday that they had found a plentiful source of stem cells in the fluid that cushions babies in the womb and produced a variety of tissue types from these cells, sidestepping the public fight over destroying embryos for research.

Researchers at Wake Forest University and Harvard University reported that the stem cells they drew from amniotic fluid donated by pregnant women hold much the same promise as embryonic stem cells.

They reported that they were able to extract the stem cells without harm to mother or unborn baby and turn their discovery into several tissue cell types, including brain, liver and bone. (link)

One can be forgiven for getting confused at this point, wondering what difference "harm to an unborn baby" makes since abortion - the ultimate harm - is backed by, encouraged by, and funded by the United States government, with force of arms.

Still, the news that babies (at embryo stage) need not die so as to retrieve stem cells that may some day provide a cure for something will take away a powerful argument that the abortionists and their allies on the left have been using in recent years.

Watch the leftists quickly abandon the issue, an act that will speak volumes about how committed these slimeballs were to the cause all along.
Make note of it.