On August 9, 2001, President Bush announced a compromise decision on the contentious question of whether the federal government should provide financial support for research into the curative properties of human stem cells extracted from embryos.
Bush’s compromise allowed funding for research into embryonic stem cells that had already been harvested. At the same time, he disallowed funding for procedures that would collect stem cells from frozen (but still living) embryos, since doing so would require their destruction. In the case of those already collected, he said, “The life-or-death decision has already been made.” But that life-or-death decision would not be made anew with taxpayer dollars.
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In the six years since then billions of dollars have been spent worldwide slaughtering embryos with a zeal that only the likes of a Dr. Mengele would appreciate -- and the results of this carnage? NOTHING, not one single positive breakthrough.
Yet adult (including umbilical cord) stem cells have yielded effective treatments and even cures for over SIX DOZEN illnesses and diseases. However, this reality is conveniently ignored or, if mentioned, it is generically referred to as stem cells in an effort to create a public ignorance of the distinction between the different types.