Posted on 04/04/2005 5:19:23 PM PDT by Radix
Glad you caught that---I looked very specifically for the word "embryonic"---nope, none---
Therefore the whole article is bogus because Bush has put no restricitons on stem cell research and is the FIRST president to fund it---
Kerry is a LIAR, LIAR, LIAR,---and just keeps on doing it!!!
We spend $6 billion a year on tax money trying to cure AIDS --a disease that is 100% preventable (excluding blood transfusion recipients and babies born to infected mothers). Most diseases are lucky to get $100 million a year in taxpayer funding for research.
Stem cell research has the potential to cure many horrible ailments. It is a far worthier investment than the billions spent trying to cure AIDS.
My granddaughter 5, has juvenile diabetes---I would love to find a cure for it so she doesn't have to take insulin all of her life--(her uncle dies of diabetes when he was 23)-- and I would take a bullet to save her life, BUT
there is no way that we should make killing babies a way to help the already alive but ill---
Kerry. Shut up.
The current administration is opposed to embryonic stem cell research, i.e the harvesting of stem cells from aborted fetuses or from lab grown embryos. These are the moral issues concerning stem cells, man's ability and willingness to play God. To either sacrifice a life or genetically engineer a life for the sole purpose of using it as a resource instead of as a gift.
How can Captian Longface support using human life as a resource yet oppose drilling into the dirt to locate a resource? That's why you lost, mor... Mr. Kerry and that's why your party continues to lose elections. You have lost your moral core and are out of touch with the rest of America.
Oh, yeah, and it's not pro life, embryonic stem cell research merely exchanges one life for another. Theoretically.
Placental cells work much better. But m. sKerry would't like that one bit.
This senator is like the Communists -- words mean whatever he wants them to mean -- there is no objective reality. According to him, supporting abortion is pro-life. This guy needs to get a clue.
Translation: "I'm John Kerry, and I believe that chopping up babies is pro-life. This announcement paid for by NOW and NARAL."
This is the same drivel they use to spew out about 10 years ago when they insisted that taking the tissue from aborted fetus' would cure all the worlds ailments...
Hmmmmm...still waiting for those cures!!
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I think he's dreaming if he believes he has any shot in 2008.
Re: Juvenile Diabetes and Stem Cell Research:
You should know that a Harvard scientist has developed a treatment for juvenile diabetes using stem cells from the pancreas, I believe. She has tested her treatment on mice and not only has the treatment stopped the diabetes, the stem cells have regenerated on their own. Fabulous news! So she has gotten some funding from the Iaccoca Foundation, but when she went to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation for help, they turned her down flat. Guess why? Because they're focusing solely on embryonic stem cells. So, an organization suuposedly dedicated to eliminating juvenile diabetes would rather hang its hat on embryonic stem cell research, which if it even went through would be 10 years down the road, instead of funding treatment testing that could be implemented next year.
On behalf of your granddaughter, I would contact the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and ask them why they won't help her.
Oh, my gosh, thanks---I did not know that and that is way too bad because when my Mom died, she had written in her will that in lieu of flowers, she wanted donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Assoc....hmmm
Well, I guess that gives me the right to ask them what those funds are for and tell them that I am against embryonic stem cell research---like the care, but at least I will ask them about the other study of pancreatic stem cells..
Thanks again for the information!
I refer you to post 14. A wise person wrote it.
Yes, but all of the promising stem cell research projects use either adult stem cells or ones from umbilical cords. We're so tied up in the "politically correct " push for embryonic stem cells that we can't focus on where the successful experiments really are.
There have been successes with umbilical cord cells and adult cells from bone marrow, fat, and nose cells. Not from embryos.
If I had to choose, I'd say let's invest most of our money in stem cells from adult fat tissue. We have a never ending supply of that. A lot of people would be willing donors, for sure.
A vampire drains his victim of blood in order to live. I guess that's "pro-life."
Thanks for the ping!
Easily-----he's a DEMOCRAT (widely known outside the borders of the US as SOCIALISTS). Illogical, illegal, and immoral notions are what they do.
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