We had a "heads up" yesterday from Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith to expect a breakthrough on the issue of embryonic stem cells and now he has published on it.
Apparently, it has become possible to obtain embryonic-like stem cells from adult stem cells. If that is so, the air may go out of the campaign to get federal and state financial support for using human embryos -- human lives at their beginning -- for research on disease. If the same benefits can be obtained without exploiting incipient human lives, what excuse remains for the kind of embryonic stem cell research we have been fighting over politically?
The answer, regrettably, is ideology and politics. There are people who like the issue more than the solution. But they are going to have a harder time now.
As usual, Smith is on top of the issue.
