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'Embryo' out of legislation
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^
| March 8, 2006
| Jon Ward
Posted on 03/08/2006 1:57:33 PM PST by Desert_Girl
ANNAPOLIS -- Democratic lawmakers have changed the word "embryo" to "material" in a bill for embryonic stem-cell research to secure the votes of Catholic senators who did not want to be viewed as supporting abortion-related legislation. "They didn't want to vote for a bill that had the language embryo in it," said Sen. Paula C. Hollinger, Baltimore County Democrat and the bill's sponsor. The bill, which appears certain of passage as early as today, calls for the state to spend $10 million for research on cells extracted from human embryos to create treatments for degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease. Changing the bill's wording angered Republicans and conservative Democrats, who think that a human embryo is a human life and embryonic research is a form of abortion.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: deceit; embryo; embryonicstemcells; euphemisms; fraud; orwell; stemcell; stemcells
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Don't like the idea? Not PC enough for you. That's okay. We'll just call it something else...
To: Desert_Girl
Cannibalism is cannibalism no matter what you call it!
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:59:37 PM PST
by
PaxMacian
To: Desert_Girl
Makes me sick.....nuff said.
To: Desert_Girl
Change the name, it's still a baby.
To: Desert_Girl
I think the Republican and Democrat supporters of the "embryo" version should vote against the "material" version, and loudly explain, everywhere they go, WHY they cannot support the bill with these redefined terms.
Better to have no bill than to continue to manipulate the language and deceive people even more.
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posted on
03/08/2006 2:08:48 PM PST
by
Prov3456
To: Desert_Girl
Every time I think that politicians can't possibly sink any lower...
Geez....
To: Righter-than-Rush
We were all embryos at one point.
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posted on
03/08/2006 2:13:56 PM PST
by
formercalifornian
(One nation, under whatever popular fad comes to mind at the moment, indivisible...)
To: All; NYer
Democratic lawmakers have changed the word "embryo" to "material" in a bill for embryonic stem-cell research to secure the votes of Catholic senators who did not want to be viewed as supporting abortion-related legislation.Might want to ping your Catholic list.
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posted on
03/08/2006 2:17:52 PM PST
by
newgeezer
To: Desert_Girl
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posted on
03/08/2006 2:21:05 PM PST
by
VOA
To: newgeezer
Is there an Orwellian ping list?
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posted on
03/08/2006 2:31:43 PM PST
by
formercalifornian
(One nation, under whatever popular fad comes to mind at the moment, indivisible...)
To: Desert_Girl
So I guess we are all just a bunch of material...
Madonna was right after all...
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posted on
03/08/2006 2:40:25 PM PST
by
tomnbeverly
(Liberal Lips Sink Ships....)
To: Desert_Girl
One has to remember what politicians are:
They're lawyers that couldn't make it in the real world of lawyerism... They are the lowest of the low.....
They stink too.
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posted on
03/08/2006 2:48:31 PM PST
by
lgjhn
To: Desert_Girl
The Constitution doesn't contain the word "slave."
To: american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; ...
Democratic lawmakers have changed the word "embryo" to "material" in a bill for embryonic stem-cell research to secure the votes of Catholic senators who did not want to be viewed as supporting abortion-related legislation. Catholic Ping - Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
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posted on
03/08/2006 3:46:58 PM PST
by
NYer
(Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
To: Desert_Girl
"Hey Janet, come over here and feel this! My baby material is kicking!"
To: formercalifornian
We were all sperm and an ovum at one point. Time to introduce the anti-Onanism bill.
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posted on
03/08/2006 5:38:22 PM PST
by
lugsoul
("Crash" - the movie that teaches we are all incurable racists, except when we are not.)
To: Desert_Girl
"What's in a name?
That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."
To: right-wingin_It
That's an icon of the Divine Mercy in her backpack.
Very appropriate.
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posted on
03/08/2006 6:27:29 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: lugsoul
No. We were not either one, only both together.
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posted on
03/08/2006 7:20:08 PM PST
by
formercalifornian
(One nation, under whatever popular fad comes to mind at the moment, indivisible...)
To: Desert_Girl
Remember then from what you have fallen, repent and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
Rev 2:5
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