More information is coming out about the Korean embryonic stem cell research. The main researcher has resigned under a cloud of scandal. His research is under heavy fire as a fraud, going back to the earlier papers as well as the latest. He still protests the validity of his research, but the scientific community is up in arms about it.

It is a serious blow to those promoting embryonic stem cell treatments versus adult stem cell treatments. The adult stem cell work has led to treatments that work, while the embryonic stem cell work has not. Now the very methods to obtain embryonic stem cells are in serious doubt.

I'm not surprised that there might be fraud underlying this research. It seems that fraud underlies so much work connected to the exploitation of women and children, and not just in stem cell research. Anything somehow associated with the sexual revolution has widespread support from the liberal community, and yet often has a basis in politically correct scientific myths promoted to advance the political cause no matter how scientifically inaccurate.

That is one of the major reasons that I turned from feminism as developed in the 1960's. I still believe in equal rights for the sexes, but that should be based on truth and not on political expediency or exploitation. Abortion rights were said to be necessary for the liberation of women, but no other group had to have abortion as a plank of their program to secure their full human rights.

It was insisted that the baby, called an embryo or fetus to obscure its humanity, had no human rights that equaled the woman's rights. Ultimately, the baby was treated as not being human at all until birth or at least the declaration by the mother that she wanted to carry it to birth. There are some people who want to extend that period of questioned humanity even further after birth.

That was the source of treating human embryos as being non-human at the early stage of life where they would be exploited as a source of embryonic stem cells. One reason that embryonic stem cell research was carried on was that the embryo had its own unique genetic code and thus there was a transplant rejection issue for tissues derived from this source. It is the exact same rejection issue dealt with for transplants from adult or child organ donors! The embryo has its own genetic pattern showing that it is a unique human being.

The doctors were going to get around this problem by creating a duplicate human and killing him or her at the embryonic stage to extract the necessary stem cells. This is the same as killing your identical twin if you need an organ transplant. It simply would happen at a stage when your twin could not defend himself or herself.

We decry the killing of Chinese prisoners to obtain organs for transplants, yet fetuses are not supposed to have any rights against being killed for transplants. Consider this scenario. Suppose you are a coroner called to examine the human remains at the scene of a suicide bombing. Some of the victims are so badly mangled that only pieces of human tissue remain. Can you medically tell the difference between an adult victim or an unborn child victim if all you have to work with is a piece of tissue with no other way to determine if this individual was born or not?

The DNA tests will show that the tissue came from a human being. To identify which victim, you would have to obtain DNA evidence from personal belongings of suspected victims to match with the test results for each tissue fragment. If you cannot obtain such additional evidence, you can't tell if the unknown human being was born or not. There is no medical or magical transformation of the DNA at the moment of birth that suddenly turns this living being from a non-human life to a human life. There isn't a transformation that suddenly turns a "non-human" fetus into a "human" baby. It is a human baby before birth as well, no matter how young it is.

Why don't we see the analogy to killing embryos for their stem cells? Its because of a medical myth about embryos developed to support the political myth about abortion being necessary to uphold women's human rights. We can kill an embryo legally in man's eyes because the government has been disarmed by the abortion laws from protecting this very young human life. All we have to do is convince enough people to accept the lies supporting the myths, and all will be well.

Or will it? What happened to the legal protection for people like Terri Schiavo who could not protect herself when her husband decided that she must die so he could go on with his life with a new family? There was an autopsy done on her after her horrendous death by dehydration and starvation, but can you really trust it? When doctors play politician and god with human lives at the pre-born stages of life, can you trust them not to do it at later ages?