Professor Sir Martin Evans urged MPs voting on embryo research legislation to ignore "emotive arguments" from religious groups. But what exactly is emotive? The professor says the research is needed to develop lifesaving treatments. That sounds pretty emotive to me! Especially as there's no proof or guarantee that the research done will actually produce these treatments.
So 'emotive' seems to mean disagreeing with him. And so the message is, ignore all disagreements!
Sorry, but I'm not going to. The "religious groups" he refers to are an important part of the few who are actually asking the hard questions about ethics and morality in these areas. And the questions need to be asked!
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