Posted on 11/05/2004 4:10:08 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Dr. Philip Pizzo, dean of Stanford University's medical school, on Friday became the first appointee to a board that will oversee a new stem cell research agency approved by California voters.
Proposition 71, which passed 59 percent to 41 percent Tuesday, will have the state borrow $3 billion to fund stem cell research. It establishes the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which will be managed by a 29-member board to be appointed over the next month.
The board, in turn, will appoint two committee to approve grants. One committee will approve money for research, while the other will be in charge of doling out funds to build new labs and other facilities.
Pizzo was appointed by state Controller Steve Westly, who gets to make five appointments to the 29-member board. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and Treasurer Phil Angelides each get to appoint five members as well.
In addition, the five University of California medical schools in San Diego, Irvine, Los Angles, San Francisco and Davis each get one appointment.
"The Institute for Regenerative Medicine will bring new funds to a field of research that has shown the potential to change the way we understand and treat disease," Pizzo said. "Passage of the proposition is a clear affirmation that the citizens of California value this area of scientific investigation."
Certainly it is, but not in any of your posts.
Particularly given the fact he lied through his teeth about his program's being restricted to the 60 stem cell lines,
Sure. I mean, he only signed an executive order, it's not as if he really meant it. Must be lying. And the unlimited number of stem cells he's letting the researchers have must be the reason they're satisfied with his decision. And you sure are quick to call him a liar. Evidence?
When your "pro-life" President,
Yep, he's no pro-lifer, which is why Jill Stanek wrote this about this Planned Parenthood document.
You all lost this fight when you rationalized the President's decision.
That would be a great point if I remembered doing that. It would also be a great point if I remembered the pro-life movement in this country (or even at FR) giving up the fight against embryonic stem cell research. And boy, the Prez sure helped those stem cell researchers a lot, which is why they're busy 24/7 whining that they can't do research with the lines he let them have. And if we've already lost, why are you still fighting? Just so you can continue to feel morally superior to 99% of the other pro-lifers?
Perhaps if you really cared, you'd understand that you lost the fight back in 1970 when -- among other extremely curious findings with regard to the environment, population control and depopulation -- the GOP discovered a "right" to predetermine the sex of one's children.
Um...source? And can you find it in the GOP platform today? I mean, heck, why don't you bring up the anti-Goldwater "daisy" ad while you're at it, so you can prove we all want to nuke the Middle East?
This President gives the board of Planned Parenthood nightmares, and you know it. Saying he's not pro-life is like saying the Klan isn't racist. It's like saying Bill Clinton's a good husband because he didn't cheat on Hillary for a couple of weeks after his bypass surgery. Get a grip.
=== And if we've already lost, why are you still fighting? Just so you can continue to feel morally superior to 99% of the other pro-lifers?
Because it's clear from your posts that (1) you're still woefully ignorant and (2) you, like Sinkspur, are so confident in your righteousness that naturally you accuse me of putting on airs of "moral superiority" and presume that I'm sitting in an ivory tower somewhere pulling posts out of thin air rather than ever getting down in the trenches at abortion clinics -- or on my knees, for that matter -- and fighting the good fight.
I have plenty of sources for you. Including the face-to-face I had with the NRLC's Texas Legislative Director the last time your "pro-lifer" President pulled a coup (as governor) and pro-aborts were allegedly stung by the same Potempkin legislation which has no teeth whatsoever save in the State of Utah.
I'll respond in full later and post replies at both your screeds.
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, to Sinkspur I believe, my point is not to lord it over anyone or serve as some kind of model for exemplary "above the fray" attention to the inexorable march of the deathists along the very tracks they laid in 1970 with the GOP's "Earth Resources & Population" report.
I'm your Cassandra, that's all. I couldn't care less whether you pat me on the head or sock me in the jaw. I'm going to keep repeating the truth of the matter in the faint hope that when you get your comeuppance -- like I've received mine -- you won't lose as much time nauseated or sick at heart as I did. You'll have been better prepared than I if only because that assinine Askel kept poking holes in your balloons and suggesting the Unthinkable was True.
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Purposed.
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