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Hillary Clinton Would Make Taxpayers Fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research
LifeNews.com ^ | June 20, 2007 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 06/20/2007 8:09:22 PM PDT by monomaniac

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Should Hillary Clinton become president after next year's elections, she promises to make taxpayers fund new embryonic stem cell research that requires the destruction of human life. Currently the only way to obtain embryonic stem cells is to kill days-old unborn children.

Clinton made the promise in remarks just before President Bush vetoed the latest Congressional bill overturning his policy preventing embryonic stem cell research funding.

'So let me be very clear: When I am president, I will lift the ban on stem cell research," Clinton told a political conference in Washington this morning.

“This is just one example of how the President puts ideology before science, politics before the needs of our families, just one more example of how out of touch with reality he and his party have become," Clinton claimed.

"Yesterday, I met with a group of children suffering from juvenile diabetes. I co-chair the Alzheimer's caucus in the Senate," Clinton added.

However, it appears the New York senator is the one who may be out of touch with the reality of stem cell research.

Though she claims otherwise, President Bush was the first to authorize federal funding of stem cell research, including on studies involving embryonic stem cells that had already been obtained.

From 2001 to 2004, the Bush Administration provided $54 million for human embryonic stem cell research pursued within clear moral bounds. During this same period of time, federal funding for non-embryonic stem cell research exceeded $1.7 billion.

Meanwhile, Clinton's reference to Alzheimer's includes the assumption that it will be cured by embryonic stem cell research and that Bush is somehow holding up progress on that.

Yet, because Alzheimer's is not a disease involving one type of cell, one scientist says the use of embryonic stem cells is unlikely to have much effect.

"Alzheimer's is a more global disease, with an effect on numerous kinds of cells," Steve Stice, a stem cell researcher at the University of Georgia, previously told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper. "That makes it much more difficult for a cell therapy to be effective."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: embryonicstemcell; embryos; prolife; taxes

1 posted on 06/20/2007 8:09:29 PM PDT by monomaniac
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To: monomaniac
I will lift the ban on stem cell research

We are banning it? News to me.
2 posted on 06/20/2007 8:11:49 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: monomaniac

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ed7_1182272892


3 posted on 06/20/2007 8:20:42 PM PDT by badpacifist (I'm touching the portal of infinite knowledge right now!)
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To: monomaniac

She’s a demonic pig who’s lust for power would have her destroy life just be President. God help us all if she is elected.


4 posted on 06/20/2007 8:22:20 PM PDT by Wolfhound777 (It's not our job to forgive them. Only God can do that. Our job is to arrange the meeting)
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To: P-40

“Currently the only way to obtain embryonic stem cells is to kill days-old unborn children.”

To the committed left, what’s the difference between ‘days-old unborn children’ and ‘children only inches from being born’?

If the left can support the intentional murder of a viable baby, they won’t lose a wink of sleep over the killing of a ‘tissue mass’.

These people are truly dangerous.


5 posted on 06/20/2007 8:24:09 PM PDT by Hornet19 (Secure Border + Fined Employers - Welfare = Self-deportation.)
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To: monomaniac

No thanks Hillary. Funding Hillary Clinton as a senator in The United States of America is horrific enough.


6 posted on 06/20/2007 8:38:40 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: monomaniac
I would give Hillary her stem cell research, if her people would let us have nuclear power. The left INVENTED junk science.
7 posted on 06/20/2007 8:40:54 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: monomaniac
I would give Hillary her stem cell research, if her people would let us have nuclear power. The left INVENTED junk science.
8 posted on 06/20/2007 8:40:54 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: monomaniac
This is just one example of how the President puts ideology before science

From a proponent of the Joseph Mengele School of Medical Science.

9 posted on 06/20/2007 8:46:01 PM PDT by RemainCALM (Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.)
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I'm tired of seeing this logo posted by knyteflyte3.... what is wrong with him????
10 posted on 06/20/2007 8:49:42 PM PDT by knyteflyte3
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To: monomaniac

She is a dangerous woman.If she becomes President, it will prove to be a disaster to the American way of life.


11 posted on 06/20/2007 9:04:47 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: RemainCALM

I was struck by the contrast betweeen Bush speaking of morals and ethics and her use of ideology and politics. Nothing could show any more clearly that she is an unprincipled opportunist of a pragmatic, utiitarian, relativist bent.


12 posted on 06/20/2007 9:35:18 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: monomaniac

Hillary Clinton Would Make Taxpayers Fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research

what won’t the piaps make taxpayers fund????


13 posted on 06/21/2007 2:40:48 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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To: monomaniac

Honest question: How much money did Clinton put towards stem cell research?


14 posted on 06/28/2007 6:33:47 PM PDT by zendari
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