Disability Rights Advocate Backs Bush Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill Veto (Joni Eareckson Tada)

Life News ^ | 7/20/06 | Steven Ertelt

[tutstar]

Got a link to substantiate your comment?

[wagglebee]

There is absolutely NO LIMIT to embryonic stem cell research funding.

[wagglebee]

Private organizations can spend all the money and destroy all the lives they want. But then again I'm sure YOU consider some leftist scientist at Harvard is an unbiased source.

[wagglebee]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663376/posts

[cva66snipe]

BS Joni...You DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE DISABLED COMMUNITY!!! I am part of that community, and overwhelmingly we are upset the President vetoed the bill. This is just plain BS. Go to newmobility.com forum for a view of how the disabled community feels.

She speaks for my wife {quad of 20 years} and for me as well disabled. But then again we do not support the ADA as applied to the private sector either. Adult stem cells are the obviously the most promising way to go. I also have two other family members life long confined to wheelchairs {30 plus years} and they support Joni :>}

[SaintDismas]

I don't understand how people like MJF can think so much of themselves in this way that someone else's life's meaning is reduced to what it's sacrafice can do for ME, ONLY ME. Have to say though that I saw him on t.v. the other day when I watched that movie on CBS about Mort Kondracke and his deceased wife Millie. He looked really really bad and I almost didn't recognize him--couldn't believe my eyes

[turnrightnow]

The whole argument boils down to one's view of and/or belief in God and the uniqueness of humans within creation. It's very easy (and logical) to have a utilitarian view of life if one believes that we are all no more than cosmic evolutionary accidents who therefore have no relative value compared with any other accident on the planet.
Killing many, no matter where they lie on life's continuum, for the benefit of a few (who will then eventually die of the next disease/illness) is immoral, no matter how you rationalize it.

[Coleus]

Got a link to substantiate your comment? >>>


they've been using bone marrow transplants (audlt stem cells) to treat and cure cancer patients for decades. I'm sure many yrs. of research went in to developing that process before they tried it out on humans.

[Coleus]

God Bless her.

[Coleus]

Diabetes has been cured in mice using drug therapy and it's just too bad the jdrf would rather advocate for fetal research killing babies rather than research for humans with something that has already been proven successfully in mice. Many pro-life people unknowingly donate to this organization .

 

Diabetes in Mice Cured Using Non-Embryonic Sources

 

Diabetes Foundation Loses its Way

 

Adult pancreas stem cells can make insulin

 

A Stem-Cell Defection, A congressman educates.

[stands2reason]

She speaks for my wheelchair bound best friend.

And we here at Free Republic don't believe in socialistic government spending for questionably ethical and questionably effective research.

[stands2reason]

I disagree.

This has nothing to do with evolution, and a belief in God is not necessary to show humanity towards the unborn.

[Coleus]

No, I disagree.

I wouldn't use this treatment if I had AIDS for the same reason why Joni Eareckson Tada wouldn't use embryonic stem cells to treat her spinal cord injury as stated in this thread.

It's immoral and unethical for human embryos to be killed in order to use their cells to cure someone else with a disease. That's why President Bush vetoed the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill.

[lilylangtree]

Thank you. I didn't know.

[jwalsh07]

"People like me -- who are medically fragile -- are left vulnerable and exposed in a society that views human life as a commodity which can be experimented upon or exploited," she explained.

Amen to that.

[devane617]

So, if we find embryonic stem cells helps people with SCI's then I encourage you and your wife both to not us the treatment. However, the vast majority of the disabled community will be lined up day one...