Ep 20. Moral Concerns About Vaccine Research Using Embryonic Stem Cells
The drive to design a COVID-19 vaccine calls attention to the moral concerns about vaccine research using embryonic stem cells, which destroy a human life in the embryonic stage of development. We share two stories about Pluristem Therapeutics, an Israeli biotech company working to produce a vaccine using placental cells, an ethical alternative to embryonic stem cells. We study Power Point slides #25 What Does Rabbi Bleich Say?, and #76 The Use of Language Medical Research. We close the episode with the meditation for today's Omer count. Aired 4/15/20.
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