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The Great Debate
- John Petrucci
Stero min. 00:24
"A Gallup snapshot poll taken immediately
after
President Bush's speech on funding embryonic
stem cell research last night shows that half of
Americans approve of his decision, 25% do not,
and still another 25% aren't sure what to think."
Canale sinistro min. 00:48
"Most people don't even know what stem cells
are."
"Who's going to scream the loudest, will it be the
right-to-lifer's, will it be the scientists?
And now what's going to happen is that there will
be a tremendous amount of lobbying in Washington
D.C. Scientists, entertainers, people who want to
see this research will be coming forth."
Canale destro min. 1:08
"I'm concerned about it, Christopher Reeves is
concerned about it, everyone is concerned about it,
but the big question is, do the ends justify the
means? And when we talk about research, yes we can
cure a lot things speculatively, but where's the
proof?"
Canale sinistro min. 1:22
"These developing human beings that they're
talking
about, these embryos were produced in an artificial
scientific environment, in vitro fertilization is
not God's will."
Canale destro min. 1:34
"That doesn't make them any less human though,
after
that happens."
Stereo min. 1:39
"We're on a road where we really don't where
we're
going as far as what's next, we're talking about
harvesting embryos, we're talking about this, we're
talking about that, but what is the cost?"
Canale sinistro min. 1:52
"How could we possibly abandon the research?"
"Well that's right, it's the old question, I
mean if
you think the research is good, of course you'd have
no problem at all with it. It's only if you think the
research involved is something evil, then you get the
question of ‘Is it okay to [.]?’ And the truth of
the matter is that we do that all the time with organ
transplants, I mean with people that are killed or
murdered or people who're just victims of automobile
accidents, abandoning all [.]. We do take their organs
and we look to try to save other lives. We try to [.]
all the time. [.] kill someone [.]"
"And I'd like to mention that we don't have the answers
yet. We need to put the money into something that'll
hopefully get those answers in the future. Listen,
we're out of time."
Canale destro min. 1:58
"And in this country there is a great...
What if someone said
Problems lie ahead
They've uncovered something highly controversial
The right to life is strong
Can't you see it's wrong
Human kind has reached a turning point
Poised for conflict at ground zero
Ready for a war
Do we look to our unearthly guide
Or to white coat heroes
Searching for a cure
Turn to the light
Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates
Turn to the light
Turning away would be a terrible mistake
Anarchist moral vision
Industries of death
Facing violent opposition
Unmolested breath
Ethic inquisitions breed
Antagonistic views
Right wing sound bite premonitions
A labyrinth of rules
Are you justified
Are you justified
Are you justified
Justified in taking
Life to save life
Life to save life
Life to save life
This embryonic clay
Wrapped in fierce debate
Would be thrown away
Or otherwise discarded
Some of us believe
It may hold the key
To treatment of disease
And secrets highly guarded
Are you justified
Are you justified
Are you justified
Justified in taking
Life to save life
Life to save life
Life to save life
Human kind has reached a turning point
Poised for conflict at ground zero
Ready for a war
Do we look to our unearthly guide
Or to white coat heroes
Searching for a cure
Turn to the light
Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates
Turn to the light
Turning away would be a terrible mistake
We're reaching
But have we gone too far
Harvesting existence
Only to destroy
Carelessly together
We are sliding
Someone else's future
Four days frozen still
Someone else's fate
We are deciding
Miracle potential
Sanctity of life
Faced against each other
We're divided
Should we push the boundaries
Or should we condemn
Moral guilt and science
Have collided
Turn to the light
We defy our own mortality these days
Turn to the light
Pay attention to the questions we have raised
Canale sinistro min. 11:34
"...research, scientific advancement. And I
know we're
going down a road that we may not know where we end, but
we...that's exactly what science is all about. I'm very sorry,
but I you know I do feel sympathy for people who whose spines
are...have uh have been severed. There's a possibility we
might be able to cure them. I am concerned about a cure for
juvenile diabetes. And if these types of scientific
advancements can cure these diseases, then quite candidly
I think there ought to be at least, what President Bush has
said, some limited research."
"I have a 28- year- old son. her grandson.
that. that uh. is. uh. paraplegic. And if there is a small chance
that my son would be able to have any feeling and be able to walk, I
am for it."
Canale destro min. 11:34
"One of the one of the big questions that
still remains for
me though is that all of these embryos that are are set or
uh being discarded for example um is this worse than just
throwing those away?"
"We don't know if they're going to be
discarded. All of a
sudden, I mean, we're going to say, uh we started with the
ones that are going to be discarded. Then all of a sudden,
we're going to have people being solicited to donate parts
of their their anatomy to harvest parts of, like, a part
of what have you. I mean that's how's it starts."
"Even though if they start soliciting, women and men in
fertility clinics have extra embryos."
"Stem cells come from developing human beings and that they
shouldn't be uh experimented on in a way that doesn't make
sense or that is unethical, but at the same time there is
great promise."
"...a human body having evolving for tens of thousands of
years and we're just injecting cells from embryos into
people's brains, and and how do we come to. to do something
like that?"
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