Brownback emphasizes the Positive

Too often in debates over stem cell research, we let our opponents cast us as the unscientific uncaring bad guys. According to this Focus on the Family article, Sam Brownback is doing a good job of breaking that impression.

U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback said Tuesday he plans to call for a floor debate on bioethics when the chamber takes up H.R. 810, an embryonic stem-cell research bill that life advocates oppose.

At a news conference, Brownback, R-Kan., said he opposes the bill that would rescind the policy President Bush put in place in August 2001. The policy limits the use of embryonic stem-cells to lines in existence before 2001.

Brownback said Congress is paying attention to the wrong kind of stem-cell research. He said that embryonic stem-cell research ??? human embryos are always destroyed in the process of harvesting those cells ??? is unethical and takes money and attention away from noncontroversial research using adult stem cells, such as those taken from umbilical-cord blood.

The ethical research, meanwhile, is bearing considerable fruit.

What Brownback is saying is not new, and it isn’t new to him. But it is a good strategy–a strategy I’d like to see adopted by a conservative nominee for President.

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