This article by Yuval Levin on NRO articulates the “sorry state of the embryonic stem cell debate” in American society. Because of people like Michael J. Fox and the late Christopher Reeve showing the world the effects of their disability and disease in order to promote the misguided hope of human ESC research, I think many Americans are afraid to face the real facts in the stem cell debate and admit where the real hope lies. ALL of the success in stem cell research has come from non embryonic stem cell sources. And yet the media and our politicians continue to regurgitate the same tired old arguments that have largely been disproven over time. They refuse to face the scientific facts that prove that ASCs (including cells from umbilical cord blood, the placenta and amniotic fluid) are more effective and more promising than their embryonic counterparts. Why, in light of the amazing advancements in non embryonic stem cell research, must we continue to insist on research that requires the destruction of nascent human life? I am afraid that our society has been so crippled by the devastating effects of abortion on demand and our inability to recognize the dignity of human life from its very beginning that this is just an extension of that devaluation of human life mentality.