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Posted on 07/06/2007 1:08:56 PM PDT by wagglebee
“Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States.” These words, spoken in the East Room of the White House, lifted people to their feet in anticipation of the historic gathering of a presidential veto. Although the excitement of the event focused on President Bush, he intended for the spotlight to spill onto some others in the room. Those of us in the audience (including the staff of CWA) soon found out that people sprinkled on stage and in the audience provided the powerful argument to support Bush’s veto of the embryonic stem cell research funding bill.
Douglas Rice was one of them.
Douglas Rice was told in November 2005 that without a mechanical heart he had three-to-four months to live. He was in the final stages of congestive heart failure and was also battling diabetes and kidney problems. But when he received an adult stem cell treatment, derived from his own healthy stem cells in January 2006, his heart began to rebuild itself. He quickly felt the positive effects of the treatment. “Prior to going, I could only walk a few feet, had to sleep sitting up,” said Rice. “Within three weeks I felt noticeably different. I felt better, had more energy, my mind was clearer and was in a better mood.”
But his success story does not stand alone — nearly 400,000 people have been treated with adult stem cell treatment. Carol Franz, who stood behind President Bush in the veto ceremony, is another incredible success story.
Carol Franz, 65, was diagnosed in 2002 with multiple myeloma cancer, a cancer of the blood that destroys the bone. X-rays revealed that her bones appeared to have holes in them, similar to the appearance of Swiss cheese. After nine long months of searching for an answer to her pain, Carol’s well-informed hematologist/oncologist recommended her for an adult stem cell transplant. After undergoing two adult stem cell transplant treatments, Carol is now exercising, traveling and leading a normal life.
Perhaps most importantly, though, she is educating people about the lifesaving treatment she received from the non-fetal harming adult stem cell transplants. She and Douglas Rice provided joyful testimonies at the White House supporting President Bush’s veto of the ESCR funding bill.
It’s a veto to be commended. Government-funded murder of tiny humans for the sake of “research” is absolutely unethical and should be condemned. Recognizing the advances that have been made in adult stem cell research and that it is not logical to throw tax dollars at unethical research that has produced no cures, President Bush declared: “If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers for the first time in our history to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos. I made it clear to Congress and to the American people that I will not allow our nation to cross this moral line.”
Supporters of ESCR ignore true medical advances, like a man who refuses to acknowledge the great advances in aeronautics and instead attempts to fly by riding a bicycle. Despite the testimony of the airplanes soaring overhead, he is determined that his pedaling will one day get him off the ground.
In the same way, ESCR supporters are the man on the bicycle, and adult stem cell research is the passenger jet in the sky flying others to safety. ESCR has not produced lifesaving results, despite the hope proponents continue to trumpet as “fact.” Adult stem cells, however, continue to produce incredible, life-changing cures.
“ESCR groups are spending tremendous amounts of money on confusing the public,” Rice points out. “The average person (98%) believes there are only embryonic stem cells. They don’t know that adult stem cells have been treating patients since 1959 and have treated well over 400,000 patients and at least 75 different diseases,” says Rice, who has spent much of his time dedicated to the research and promotion of adult stem cell treatments. “What is important is the need to know the facts. They are quite simple. Adult stem cells save lives on a daily basis now! Embryonic stem cells will, in my opinion, never do it as simply and cost effectively as adult stem cells. … We need to educate the public on the facts, not fiction and maybes.”
President Bush made this point at the veto ceremony when he said, “Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical, and it is not the only option before us.”
The media will NEVER acknowledge this.
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Anybody with any doubts about Bush's veto of embryonic stem cell research funding needs to read this!
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Ann Coulter covers the adult stem cell versus baby stem cells very well in “Godless”. The MSM needs a kick in the butt to report truth much of the time.
“Carol Franz, 65, was diagnosed in 2002 with multiple myeloma cancer, a cancer of the blood that destroys the bone. X-rays revealed that her bones appeared to have holes in them, similar to the appearance of Swiss cheese. After nine long months of searching for an answer to her pain, Carol’s well-informed hematologist/oncologist recommended her for an adult stem cell transplant. After undergoing two adult stem cell transplant treatments, Carol is now exercising, traveling and leading a normal life.”
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There’s also my grand daughter who marched with the Republican women in the 4th of July Parade this week. Veronica had an umbilical cord blood transplant at 15 months old in December, 2001. Today, she’s beautiful and healthy.
Here’s “Roni” at the Parade in New Braunfels, with Congressman Lamar Smith,
http://ccgoporg.blogspot.com/2007/07/fourth-of-july-parade-pictures.html
and there’s an article about her testimony at the Texas Senate, last summer, in a pdf newsletter from Texas Alliance for Life (You have to scroll down a bit)
http://www.texasallianceforlife.org/Newsletters/Pdfs/LM06Fall.pdf
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