Setting up an industry free of state and local regulation because it “discourages” embryonic stem cell research is “a modest” proposal?

No other industry operating in Michigan is free from legislative regulation. And by the way, there are no federal laws restricting ESCR; only the funding of same with our tax dollars.

And if a scientist decides to create an animal – human hybrid like they have in England, the Michigan legislature could not regulate that unless it got a two-thirds majority to change the state constitution. Any chance of getting a two-thirds majority on any substantive issue?

Modest Proposal? Embryos can be bought and sold except for stem cell research.

Embryos, defined as created by purpose (fertility treatment) but not by technique (cloning), could be sent into Michigan for research. Hence , it is not limited to “in vitro fertilization.”

Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal” recommends eating Ireland’s poor children as a way to prevent the children from being a burden to their parents or country and to make them beneficial to the public. But Swift was using sarcasm. Supporters of this “modest proposal” mean it.