Posted on 07/19/2006 4:35:23 PM PDT by TheDon
The House failed Wednesday to override President Bush's veto of a bill to lift his restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. That means the veto stands, killing the measure.
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Absolutely right, my unknown friend. Far too many taxpayer dollars being spent on activities that private enterprise should fund. In the church we say, "Back to the Bible." In the Federal Government, we need to say, "Back to the Constitution" - and be originalists in both camps.
The embryos are frozen and they are either destroyed or go bad after being frozen for too long.
The only ones that are used for stem cells are from couples who say they want their unused embryos used for research instead of being destroyed.
Couples with sick kids that have diseases that can be helped by stem cells are producing fertilized eggs for the purpose of getting stem cells to help their child. I think this is morally much worse.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-05-05-stem-cells_x.htm
"Morally"? "Worse"? These are VALUE-words. They should not be used by posters who think human flesh is just so much raw meat.
Like what the Chinese do with the organs of executed prisoners?
Great news. This issue is not understood by most. Most people think Bush banned the procedure but he did not. Only futher Federal Funding which the amount he allowed is the first President to do so. It is legal for private entities to do the research. There is plenty of private money to fund this as it should be.
Do you know that European countries do not allow so many embryos to be created and stored? We should revise our in vitro practices to comply with these best practices so that we don't have this disaster waiting to happen.
And plenty of state money, thank goodness. At least some of the states see the value in research.
It would have spent taxpayer dollars on research which is not only ethically dubious at best, but likely scientifically worthless as well. I would like for some proponent of ESCR to tell me, if all the ESCR experiments worked out as well as could be hoped, what specifically would be the result? What treatments would be possible, and where would any materials required come from?
If ESCR researchers were honest, they'd either be explaining why embryonic cells are better than adult cells, or else admit that they're not. But I don't think they can do the former and they obviously don't want to do the latter.
What are the ESCR advocates hoping to achieve? Are they seeking to develop ESCR cures for diseases that adult stem cells won't be able to cure? What diseases would those be? Is there any evidence that embryonic cells can do anything useful (other than their natural procreative function) that adult stem cells can't do?
Researching embryonic stem cells today, given the extent to which adult stem cells have demonstrated themselves superior, would be like researching new techniques for increasing the density of magnetic core memory. Once upon a time, such research would have made sense, but no longer.
Congratulations to the Republiacsn, and any Democrats if they were any, that voted against this.
I second that. There were 14 Democrats who deserve congratulations on this. There is nothing more important to me than the issue of life and stamping out abortion!!!
Fifty-one Republicans voted for an override, while 14 Democrats voted against it. Three Republicans flipped from the anti-funding to the pro-funding side. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania and Dave Reichert of Washington voted against the bill last year, but voted to override Bush's veto. Brian Bilbray, who told pro-lifers that he supported the president's policy during his campaign just a few weeks ago, voted for the override too.
Wow, my bad, doing research with something that would be discarded, after time anyway, seemed like a good idea. Maybe we can get to the point where we can 'uninvent' things that make religious groups, and the politicians whoring to them in an election year, uncomfortable.
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