Posted on 07/29/2005 12:15:49 PM PDT by AFPhys
er, that "anyone" should be "anyway."
And that disease is a Barney Frank phenomenon....
FRIST GOES LIMP IN THE WRIST
I know.
So was my answer.
The leftists have their hands over their ears.
They want no curbs on killing embryos because to somehow imply that it amounts
to killing a human being would threaten the Holy Grail of the left: Roe v. Wade.
Thanks for including me on your ping. I shot from the hip earlier, and will need to mull this over as well, but I cannot accept the notion of considering human embryoes as some commodity for research purposes. I'm all for pushing stem cell research -- using adult stem cells, cord blood stem cells, and placenta stem cells, and so forth. I have yet to see compelling evidence that embryonic stem cell research has the "promise" that its proponents claim; to the contrary, what I've read of embryonic stem cell research, it's pretty unpromising.
You mean Twinkle Toes?
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The really hard-nosed proponents are pushing embryonic stem cell research, not because of its *promise*, but to add further weight to the argument that human life does not begin at conception (or if it does, it is not worth protecting).
Thank you for your kind response.
I watched the rebroadcast on C-Span just now with DeLay and Weldon and Gingrey and others talking about Frist's new stand on funding for destructive embryonic stem cell research. Many of them talked about how shocked and disappointed they are, and the pro-life medical doctors among them talked about the science involved. It was an informative and reassuring press conference for those who feel that adult stem cell research is the better way to go for moral erasons.
Shock does not even begin to describe how I feel in hearing the news of this betrayal by Frist. How can the Majority Leader get away with opposing the President on this issue and remain Majority Leader? Doesn't party discipline mean anything?
Frist may as well give up on the presidency now. Ths flip flop added to his ineffectiveness on Schiavo has lost him the pro-life vote.
Excellent list
Your position is tragically obvious.
It was disgusting to hear people on the Senate floor talking about human embryos as "medical waste".
Medical waste??!!!??!! That term is disrespectful to the point of blasphemy. I am still picking my jaw up off the floor.
Federal funding should be a separate issue. There are plenty of people who would like the government to ban embryonic stem cell research altogether, regardless of who's paying the tab, and a lot of those people are using the federal funding debate as a platform to promote their ideas. Personally, I regard any restrictions whatsoever on any kind of stem cell research as dangerous Luddite-ism. But I'm no fan of government funding for anything that can realistically be done by the private sector, and this is certainly private sector doable.
If there's anything I find scarier than Luddites managing to get this type of research banned altogether, it's the prospect of government providing it heavy funding and then ending up owning many of the key patents. This would put the government in a stronger position to implement full-blown socialized medicine, by withholding the treatments developed by these methods from use by anyone outside the government health system, or requiring big royalty payments for such uses.
When we lose sight of the value for the sanctity of life, we will have lost our humanity. A large portion of our society, I'm afraid, has already done so.
Actually, many surplus embryos from IVF clinics are being made available for "adoption" and there are quite a lot of children running around today who were born via that route. And it's doubtful that embryos which are too severely damaged to have the potential to grow into babies, could provide healthy stem cell lines. However, many parents are uncomfortable with their genetic offspring being raised by unknown people, or as is often the case, not even knowing whether their donated embryos ever turned into babies. They should continue to have the choice, as they do now, to offer their embryos for adoption, donate them to research, or discard them however they see fit (some "parents" of frozen embryos hold a private burial service, others just check a box on a form letter from the clinic saying "discard").
All slippery-slope deals begin with a seemingly benign explanation. The next thing you know, taxpayer money will be spent to entice folks to have these "fertiltiy treatments" with the sole intent of acquiring new stem cell lines. A pinhole in the dam soon starts eroding all around it until the dam breaks.
Only for those without a conscience.
Your tag line is hilarious! Please tell me that it's real!
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