Industrial relations, Treasury minute – Interview with Catherine McGrath, ABC AM
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Treasurer
Doorstop Interview
ABC Centre, Southbank
Tuesday, 20 December 2005
9.00 am
SUBJECTS: Stem cell research
TREASURER:
… expert committee, and I want to carefully consider what it says. I
think the capacity for medical research to treat diseases like Parkinson’s
disease is so important, but I do not believe that potential lives can be created
and destroyed. Now if there is a way through this that can protect and respect
human life whilst allowing medical research to continue, I would like to find
it, and I will be looking carefully at the report.
JOURNALIST:
Does the idea of creating embryos then at an early stage in order to carry
out scientific research constitute that balance of life?
TREASURER:
I would be against creating embryos for the purpose of destroying them in medical
research. I think that is taking a callous view of life, but where there are
stem cells that otherwise would be destroyed, and they can be put to a medical
use which has the potential to deliver treatment for life saving treatment,
then I would be in favour of that. And it is a careful balance, I want to very
carefully consider the issues. Thanks.
I would be against creating embryos for the purpose of destroying them in medical
research. I think that is taking a callous view of life, but where there are
stem cells that otherwise would be destroyed, and they can be put to a medical
use which has the potential to deliver treatment for life saving treatment,
then I would be in favour of that. And it is a careful balance, I want to very
carefully consider the issues. Thanks.