Posted on 07/29/2005 6:08:02 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
And if the choice comes down to dividing the Republican party unto defeatable weaness which may put Hillary into the Presidency?
What then?
I do not believe Americans will elect a female Democrat as President. The first female President will be Republican.
Suppose a Democrat wins weve still got the House and Senate and the Supreme Court. After 4 years of Democrat mis-rule we will have a Republican again and the Republican Party will know the power of Us Christians and will pay Real Attention to our Demands.
I didn't believe New Yorkers would elect an insane marxist cow as Senator.
As the president said, it is wrong to kill one life for the benefit of another.
In addition to that, we are taking $$ away from ADULT stem cell research which has already cured thousands.
EMBRYONIC stem cells have not cured a single person since it's inception in 1998 (I believe that is the year.).
Vote in the primaries so we will have a decent choice.
Just imagine what would happen with Socialist Healthcare or rather Government Enforced Death. You'd have to pay for OTHER people's genetic susceptibilities and/or lifestyle habits (smoking, drugs, drinking, etc).
Fact is we're already paying for others' self-destructive habits, either by paying huge medical insurance premiums or paying the taxes that support Medicare & Medicaid. Not everyone of course, but a very high percentage of people in a hospital at a given time are there due to cigarettes, alcohol, bad diet, drug use, and no exercise. The profile: obese person chain smoking, drinking beer while driving to a fast food restaurant to buy monster burger with fries. Or lifetime smoker and drinker who now has heart disease, lung cancer, liver disease and diabetes. Or homosexual drug user performing sodomy. We are already paying. More socialist health insurance plans (see Hillary Clinton) would ruin the economy of the U.S.
Late Embryo Farming for Cells or Organs
In Will Saletan's fourth installment in Slate, he demonstrates further how embryonic stem cell research is not going to remain in the Petri dish.
Now, some apparently have decided to draw the line that cannot be crossed (yea, right) at the transition point from embryo to fetus, meaning 8 weeks or so. That would permit cloning, implantation, and harvesting or drug testing of late stage embryos.
I don't know if Saletan approves or disapproves. This isn't the point. What he has done ably is reveal a mindset that, by a process of continual redefinition of terms and stretching of moral boundaries, will steadily move cloning through implantation, organ harvesting, birth, and into genetic engineering. The goal is unfettered research.
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/ (blog)
CLONING will be next, if we can't stop this mad science.
You know what really gripes me is the slippery slope we have all accepted. Remember when ethicists challenged the idea of test tube babies because that would lead us to "play God?" "But what about the tragic infertile couples who can't have children, we can't deny them." So the argument was made.
This thread is about yet another type of stem-cell research (this time from placentas) that does not destroy life but which probably won't take place if Frist's plan to federally fund embryonic stem-cell reserach becomes law: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457588/posts
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