The Great Debate

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(Paroles : John Petrucci)

"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."

"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."
    
"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?"
    
"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."
    
"That doesn't make them any less human though, after
that happens."
   
"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?"
    
"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."

"And in this country there was a great outrage of [???]
from all points. From churches, mainline [???]...  
that you can not use [???]... to cure [???]...
and as it turned out [???]... great outrage... [???]"

What if someone said
Promise lies ahead
Hopes are high in certain scientific circles
Life won't have to end
You could walk again

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 the turning point
Poised for conflict at ground zero
Ready for a war
Do we look to our unearthly guide
Or the 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

Anarchistic moral vision
Industries of death
Facing violent opposition
Unmolested breaths

Ethic inquisitions breed
Antagonistic views
Right wing sound bite premonitions
In a labyrinth of rules

Are you justified
Are you justified
Are you justified
Justified in taking
Life to save life
Life to save life
Taking life to save life

This embryonic clay
Wrought 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 the turning point
Poised for conflict at ground zero
Ready for a war
Do we look to our unearthly guide
Or the 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
Before 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

"...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."
    
"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."
    
"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."
    
"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?"