BRAIN-SUCKING FREAKS (Friend of Kerry)

Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture ^ | October 12, 2004 | Thomas Fleming

[Ed Current]

stemcellresearch.org - Founding Statement

Stem cell research promises great good and is a worthy scientific priority as long as we pursue it ethically. Obtaining stem cells from people without seriously harming people in the process can be ethical. However, obtaining stem cells from human embryos cannot be ethical because it necessarily involves destroying those embryos.

1. Human embryonic stem cell research violates existing law and policy

• State: Homicide laws of all 50 states protect human life and the dignity of every human being--especially the vulnerable; laws of many states already specifically protect vulnerable embryonic human beings outside the womb; most prohibit destructive human embryo and human fetal research.
• National: The present Congressional ban on federally-funded human embryo research explicitly excludes "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death"; existing laws requiring separation between the death of an unborn child in abortion and research objectives using the unborn child's tissues preclude the destruction of human embryos as a means of achieving research objectives.
• International: Documents such as the Nuremburg Code, the World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki, and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights reject the use of human beings in experimental research without their informed consent and permit research on incompetent subjects only if there is a legal surrogate, minimal risk, and therapeutic benefit for the human subject.

1. Human embryonic stem cell research is unethical:

• Recent history provides tragic examples of attempts to justify gross violations of the rights of human beings in medical research on the utilitarian basis of "social and medical benefit": the Tuskegee experiments on African Americans, U.S. government-sponsored radiation research, the Nazi medical war crimes, etc.
• Good ends (e.g., health) do not justify the use of unethical means (e.g., killing human beings).
• Scientifically, the international consensus of embryologists is that human beings begin at fertilization (or cloning)--i.e., when their genetic code is complete and operative; even before implantation they are far more than a "bunch of cells" or merely " potential human beings."

1. Human embryonic stem cell research is scientifically unnecessary:

• Other research methods which use stem cells from adults to develop treatments for many diseases have recently been successful; in fact, the British Medical Journal (1999) has concluded that, in medical research, human embryonic stem cells "may soon be eclipsed by the more readily available and less controversial adult stem cells. "
• The use of a patient's own stem cells is even preferable to using embryonic stem cells because it avoids the problem of the body rejecting cells other than its own.
• Other new methods such as somatic cell gene therapy are increasingly successful in tissue regeneration and otherwise treating disease.

Necessary Next Steps:

• Congress should maintain the existing ban on harmful federally-funded human embryo research and make explicit its application to embryonic stem cell research.
• Congress should provide federal funding for the development of alternative treatments which do not require the destruction of embryonic human beings.

Read the Full Statement

 

 

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

South Park skewers another liberal icon! 8-D

[orangelobster]

Christopher Reeves was an excellent actor and made some good pictures. The article is creepy. If the author doesn't agree with his activism he should lay out his own case without attacking someone who just died. Let the man rest in peace. Even the ghoulish Reagan hating dems. knew enough to keep their mouths shut when he died. Of course the exception was Kerry, who pretended to grieve for Reagan, but then proceeded to take a number of cheap shots at him. This was the same technique he used for trashing Cheney's daughter - Using a superficial compliment to mask his cynical cheap shot.

[Ed Current]

From the article:

So while the rest of TVLand America is out mourning the death of this great actor and good friend of John Kerry,

Speaking of SUPERMAN, not himself.

[JOE6PAK]

When I was a kid, we had a Priest that looked just like this guy...

..of course we all called him Father George!

[cowboyway]

"His suffering. his problem something that could help him?"

Read the interview with MJ Fox as to why he is supporting FnKerry. Same thing. Me, me, me.

What about the economy? I've got enough money; I want my stem cells.

What about national security? I've got a body guard, I fly in private jets; I want my stem cells.

Me, me, me.

These hollywood bastages make me want to puke.

[Ed Current]

If the author doesn't agree with his activism he should lay out his own case without attacking someone who just died. Let the man rest in peace.

You have a good point. The same could be said of anyone who advocated the policies of Osama, Saddam, Hitler…

[AMDG&BVMH]

"The article is creepy. If the author doesn't agree with his activism he should lay out his own case without attacking someone who just died. Let the man rest in peace."

Yes; however it was the South Park episode rather than the author who made the ghoulish association between fetus-parts and strength.

[AMDG&BVMH]

Thanks! The REAL Superman!

[Xenalyte]

Actually, he didn't make one movie with any original plot or decent dialogue. And if someone here is deluded enough to insist that the unwatchably soppy "Somewhere in Time" is good, I will personally come over and beotch-slap you back into reality by forcing you to watch "Monsignor."

[orangelobster]

"You have a good point. The same could be said of anyone who advocated the policies of Osama, Saddam, Hitler…"

I do not believe that someone who is advocating an issue can effectively persuade people to their side of the argument by beating up on the recently deceased.

Far from being persuasive, it merely seems cowardly and more likely to damage your own argument.

[Ed Current]

Reeve was no different than someone who advocated the policies of Osama, Saddam, Hitler…

[ArrogantBustard]

ghoulish

Cannibalising unborn babies is ghoulish.

[cgk]

ping.

[Politicalmom]

Oh, my gosh. I participated in a "Most Romantic Movie" thread elsewhere. That sappy movie was named by SO many people. I watched it as a teen and thought it was horrible....

[Ed Current]

He was much better at acting Superman than acting human!

[cgk]

John Kerry to the delegates at the DNC during the Reagan Presidency:

"eight years of moral darkness" are almost at an end.

Speaking about Reagan again:

"The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed ‘window of vulnerability,’ which we now know not to exist."

“If we don’t need the MX [multiple warhead ICBM], the B-1, or these other weapons systems ... [t]here’s no excuse for casting even one vote for unnecessary weapons of destruction, and as your Senator, I will never do so,” Kerry vowed.

[Ed Current]

moral darkness

That describes Kerry and Reeve very well.

[orangelobster]

" unwatchably soppy "Somewhere in Time"

my old pal xena.. no, I never saw it. 'monsignor' doesn't sound like my cup of tea either. 'remains of the day' was good. Can't beat Anthony Hopkins. I must admit that 'team america' also looks appealling.

You have to do a better job with the renaisance festival security enforcement, xena... like you do on FR.