MBC embryonic stem cell resolution
June 14, 2005
Messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention’s 2004 annual meeting at First Baptist Church, Raytown, overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for more research on adult stem cells which may produce promising “breakthroughs in the treatments of several diseases including Parkinson’s, diabetes and Alzheimer’s.”
The resolution went on to express Missouri Baptists opposition to embryonic stem cell research which “requires the intentional and unnecessary destruction of human life, perpetrates a philosophy of treating human life as a commodity, and contributes to Americans devaluing human life at all stages of development.”
It went on to praise President Bush for opposing embryonic stem cell research and protecting “developing babies from certain death” by banning any government funding of such research. It declared that “the best hope for the cure of many diseases is in adult stem cell research and that embryonic stem cell research is unpromising, unnecessary, and immoral.”