>>“So then, did they break the law with respect to the ban on embryonic stem-cell research?”
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>I think the ban was on using our tax money for the reasearch, not on the research itself.
I see. Too bad... I’m in the mood to see heads crushed on a REAL moral high-ground.
WE HAVE HEARD IT STATED SO OFTEN it has become a media mantra: Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) offer the greatest hope for cures; adult and umbilical cord blood stem cells have far less potential; the Bush administration's embryonic stem cell funding restrictions have caused America to fall behind in the great international race to develop effective ESC treatments.
Baloney, baloney, and pure baloney: The problems with harnessing embryonic stem cells as treatments appear to be growing, not shrinking.
By contrast, the umbilical cord blood and adult stem-cell breakthroughs keep on coming. Human trials are ongoing for heart disease, spinal cord injury, eye afflictions, and many other diseases. And here's a bit of potentially very big news: A just-published peer-reviewed study (Cytotherapy, Vol. 7. No. 4 (2005), 368-373) reports that scientists have used umbilical cord blood stem cells to restore feeling and mobility to a spinal cord injury patient.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/aug/06081804.html
UK Researcher: Cord Blood Real Potential for Cures, Not Embryonic Stem Cells -
There is another motive for this move by Obama.Either Eugenics, more abortions, or more ridicule to Bush.