Congress is trying to push through a bill to create federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.[1] This move comes with lots of promises of future cures, at the cost of lives, but no results at all so far. The promising treatments from stem cells to date come from adult stem cells and from umbilical tube stem cells, neither of which cost a life to obtain. This is then thus simply an attempt by materialist and atheist scientists to further desensitize to death.
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4576407.stm