My first impression of Axelrod... (watch closely)
Posted on 02/15/2009 2:14:37 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama will soon issue an executive order lifting an eight-year ban embryonic stem cell research imposed by his predecessor, President George W. Bush, a senior adviser said on Sunday.
"We're going to be doing something on that soon, I think. The president is considering that right now," Obama adviser David Axelrod said on "Fox News Sunday."
In 2001, Bush limited federal funding for stem cell research only to human embryonic stem cell lines that already existed. It was a gesture to his conservative Christian supporters who regard embryonic stem cell research as destroying potential life, because the cells must be extracted from human embryos.
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There is no ban on stem cell research. Sigh.
Can concentration camps be far behind?
It never was banned in the first place!
There was a ban on government funding of the research. Private entities were able to do as much research as they wanted. Just not with government funds.
[U.S. President Barack Obama will soon issue an executive order lifting an eight-year ban embryonic stem cell research imposed by his predecessor]
There was no ban on embryonic stem cell research, only a ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell reasearch.
My first impression of Axelrod... (watch closely)
Indeed! President Bush was the FIRST president to AUTHORIZE stem cell research on already existing lines, d’oh!! Yet the biased MSM continues to act like he was a Luddite banning ALL research, ack!!! This kind of yellow journalism just really chafes me sometimes!!! >:-(
Yes, California ‘invested’ 3 billion on unethical stem cell research. Not a single cure for anything was forthcoming, the state economy is in the dump and the government is completely broke. It’s the perfect model for Zero to follow.
Okay, that is CREEPY!
I may be wrong, but didn’t the government still fund research on existing embryos? They wouldn’t fund testing on embryos obtained after that time, as I recall. Perhaps they didn’t fund at all. I’m just not sure.
I had a college professor tell the class that the other day. Just perpetuating the lie.
It was always too much of a nuance for liberals to understand that Bush banned federal funding of the research, not the research itself.
In their black/white world of knee jerk reactions and reasoning, they have always said Bush banned the research, and then went on to say that Bush didn’t appreciate scientific research of any kind. Hence the talk about restoring science to its rightful place now that there is a good Democrat president, etc.......................
Yes, it is.
Your tagline forgets Graham. He said, in an interview today, that he may support the nationalization of banks (Schumer disagreed).
GUYS!!! You can’t even say Bush BANNED funding for stem cell research. He was the first president to release funding for stem cell research; before him it had never been federally funded.
All he did was restrict funding on embryonic stem cell lines to existing lines. But ban and stem cell research and funding should never come out of our mouths or fingers.
I’m still ticked off at Edwards during the 2004 election blaming crippled people on Bush banning research, and that if Kerry were elected Christopher Reeve would get up out of his wheelchair and walk!! Ack!
The left wing propaganda machine is going full blats with irrelevant bull crap!!!!!
Fetal stem cell research has been going full blast in Europe for all of the last 8 years and nothing has come from it, not one discovery worth taking to the market place of medicine.
Adult stem cell research has given great rewards to science but nothing, nada, has come out of on going and well funded fetal stem cell research all over Europe.
In other words this is a mute point, there is not point except to sound good on the stage of liberalism.
It’s a Bull Crap stand from beginning to end.
It is just another measure of what kind of imp we have as president!!!!!!!
Newsmax = wrong!
..................EMBRYONIC ...............
cells from embryonic human babies
The sheeple won’t know the headline is inaccurate. If this research was so darn promising, why wouldn’t venture capital firms invest in it? Why can this research only be ‘saved’ by the government? This issue is a case study in media bias. The only thing O can change is whether or not I get to pay for it (I hope he caps the salaries of stem cell researchers, now that they’ll be getting taxpayer money - the slope is very slippery)
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