Posted on 01/04/2007 3:55:04 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- With the House of Representatives voting next week on a measure forcing taxpayers to fund new embryonic stem cell research, White House spokesman Tony Snow said President Bush still doesn't support that.
He reiterated the president's position against destroying human life for science.
Snow told a Wednesday news conference that "the President has made it clear" that he "does not believe that this kind of research necessitates the taking of a human life."
"The position hasn't changed," Snow explained.
Instead, President Bush "believes in encouraging, through federal largesse and otherwise, investigation into promising technologies" such as adult stem cell research -- which has helped patients but doesn't require destroying days-old unborn children.
Snow also touted Bush's record as the first president to provide federal funds for any kind of stem cell research -- including hundreds of millions of dollars on adult stem cells.
"[H]e believes in stem cell research so much," Snow said, pointing to "the fact that this administration has done more to finance stem cell research, embryonic and otherwise, than any administration in history."
Snow said he couldn't comment on the specific bill the Democrat-led House is in the process of drafting on embryonic stem cell research funding because it hasn't been completed.
Though the measure has a number, HR 3, the text has not been finalized.
"When we start seeing the product of those legislative deliberations then we'll be in the position to tell you where the President will stand on certain things," Snow told the news conference.
The House of Representatives is scheduled to take up the measure next Thursday. This is the second time Congress has attempted to require taxpayer funding for the unproven research.
Last May the House voted for the bill by a vote of 238 to 194 but President Bush vetoed the measure in July.
“It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect,” the president said at the time.
The House failed to achieve a two-thirds override vote shortly after the veto as it voted for the measure 235-193 -- some fifty-one votes short of the two-thirds needed.
Since the votes, advocates of embryonic stem cell research, which has yet to help any human patients and experienced numerous problems in animals, gained numerous seats in the House. However, it appears they may not have enough necessary to override a second presidential veto.
ACTION: Call your member of Congress at 202-224-3121 and urge strong opposition to the embryonic stem cell research funding bill. You can find specific contact information for your elected officials at http://www.house.gov.
Pro-life bump.
Humans have received their own unpurified olfactory mucosal tissues with nerve stem cells, and every one regained at least some function. Currently, researchers in China have used human amniotic stem cells to restore function in mice. And there are current NIH approved, government funded studies using bone marrow stem cells in children with brain trauma and in adults with stroke.
What's really amazing is the way Atala's research resulted in the growth of new cells in specific areas of the brain in the mice he experimented on. The amniotic stem cells were manipulated before transplantation to encourage their development along a certain line.
A great source for learning more about research is PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Good for the President!
Also, if it showed the promise you say, money would be flowing in from all angles and they wouldn't need gubmint money. There are trillions of dollars all over the world looking for a home. It's not in Geron because it doesn't work. If you don't diversify, you will loose your ass. They are losing money and have no PE yet. They trade about 1 million shares a day. The chart looks like a short at 9. The yearly chart shows they are headed south right now. They may get a bump from the Dems vote, but will get killed when Bush veto's it.
Like I said, they need the gubmint money to make a profit. No investors are showing up.
Just "Google" stems cells and it will take about 5 minutes to figure out adult cells work and embryonic cells kill with horrible deaths. Just last week the Canuks cured diabetes with pepper juice. This week they are using it for cancer.
Why are the Repubs against it and the Dems for it? It's political now. It has nothing to do with science and making you money. You will looooooose!!!! It doesn't work!
I'm morally opposed to EMBRYONIC stem cell research, but I would invest if I thought I could make money to give to Republicans that would stop it. I don't smoke, but have made a tidy sum in MO. I just haven't seen ANY evidence that embryonic cells are better than adult cells. I have been FOR ethanol fuel for years, but I wouldn't invest in their companies yet. As a similar investment, they depend on government mandates to make money. If the corn lobby is going to hamstring the industry, it will never catch on. OTOH, if we allow sugar cane from other countries and other crops to compete with corn, we could make a big dent in our oil imports. The sugar lobby and the corn lobby and the oil lobby are in the same camp against America, ergo a bad investment in ethanol.
Lets just say Geron has a breakthrough. It runs from $6-$9 now. It may go to $20-$30 on the breakthrough. You will miss the first run up if you are only in, say 5% of your net worth. If you buy at $30 and the company is for real, it will be at $100 before you know it. Greed, however will kill you if you are wrong and you are done playing with any stocks.
I lost nearly 1/3rd of my money in 2000-2001, but I retired in 2001 at 50 because I had enough diversity to survive. Dreams of being rich will almost always skew your judgment. Nothing wrong with taking chances, but be reasonable.
It's time to call your Representative to ask him or her to vote "No" on HR 3. The House Directory is at http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/index.html
(And it wouldn't hurt to call the President's office to encourage him to get his veto pen out and warm it up in case he has to veto this bill. 202-456-1111.)
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