PETA: Sacrifice Human Life, Not Animals, in Stem Cell Research
by Steven Milloy
July 30, 2006

LifeNews.com Note: Steven Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and CSRWatch.com. He is a junk science expert, and an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

The animal rights activist group PETA seems to have its own "ethical" problem -- urging the sacrifice of human life rather than that of laboratory animals for medical research.

Amid this week's hullabaloo over embryonic stem cell (ESC) research, which culminated in President Bush's veto of a bill overriding his limitations on federal funding of such research, curiosity got the better of me and I wondered what PETA's position, if any, might be regarding the controversy.

I assumed that PETA most likely opposed ESC research since it necessarily involves the sacrifice of animal lives as well as human embryos.

Au contraire. the rest