[fight_truth_decay]

Excerpt....."We should be offering people hope, just like physicians do, but neither physicians, scientists, public servants or trial lawyers like John Edwards should be offering hype. It is cruel to the patients, it is cruel to people who have disabilities and chronic disease, and on top of that it's dishonest. It's giving false hope to people – and I can tell you as a physician who's treated scores of thousands of patients – that you don't give them false hope. It is a wrong thing to do. Now I say that with such definition, first of all because I think it's shameful to use Christopher Reeve's death and secondly it reinforces what came out in the last debate, and what John Kerry has said again and again that there is a ban on stem cell research. There is no ban. That is dishonest. He said 'cures are at our fingertips' for embryonic stem cell research. That is untrue. Right now, first of all in terms of President Bush's policy President Bush is the first president to fund embryonic stem cell research and adult stem cell research.

"Secondly, there is no ban on stem cell research. He is the first one to make it possible to do embryonic stem cell and adult stem cell using taxpayer dollars. There is no limit or restrictions on private sector funding of adult or embryonic stem cell research. The President did say, appropriately, that no taxpayer dollars should be used to destroy human embryos, because human embryos are living, because they are biologically human, and because they are fully-differentiated.

"Lastly, in terms of therapy today, in terms of getting up out of the wheelchair, embryonic stem cell research today is not used to get people out of wheelchairs today. The treatment using stem cells today is all with adult stem cells, where the President has absolutely no restrictions, no limitations, and there about 140 treatments. Stem cell research is promising. The President vigorously promotes adult and embryonic stem cell research, but he does it with an ethical and moral framework."

Remarks by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., in Conference Call Today, Agencia emisora: mié 13 Oct 2004

[jbarkley]

Great piece, but this had me Laughing so loud my cats left the room... Size does not determine the humanity of the individual (if this were the case, then Michael Moore would have to be the most human person on the planet).

[fight_truth_decay]

PING

[sonsofliberty2000]

The Second Coming of John Kerry?

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Patriot Paradox

[Sybeck1]

[cake_crumb]

"This is why scientists who want to use stem cells have to try so hard to get federal funding. The fact of the matter is if stem cell research was so promising, money would be pouring hand-over-fist into the research and development departments of the leading stem cell researchers. The fact that it isn’t doing so speaks volumes."

Exactly. I suggest we all make a point of looking for pro-stem cell federal funding articles in online news publications, then writing letters to the editors asking exactly why, if fetal stem cells are known to affect such miracle cures, where are the STUDIES showing that, where's all the private funding and WHY has the public never seen either?

[Barb4Bush]

Kerry and Edwards: Miracle Men. The lame will walk the dead will vote.

[jwalburg]

Never heard of Peter Pike, but this was a very insightful article.