It's emotional thinking. The greater (perceived) threat to people's children these days is defective immunizations, as they fit in with the whole "corporate America is fucking us" mindset. The fear of diseases such as mumps and measles has declined with the incidence of those diseases. The only way to solve this is to somehow remove emotional decision-making from the human population.
As for anti-stem cell sentiment, that's a moral argument based primarily on the belief that a fertilized egg/embryo is a human, and the distaste for sacrificing humans in the name of research. The only way to counter this is to prove that eggs/embryos are not human. As far as I know, nobody has been able to do this.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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