Posted on 02/17/2009 4:13:37 PM PST by pissant
I've certainly criticized President Obama enough since he's taken office and even more when he was a presidential candidate. But I don't hesitate to applaud him when he does something right. One of his advisers told a Sunday television talk show that the president is on the precipice of overturning yet another Bush administration policy that pushed us back. George W. Bush's stem cell policy pushed us so far back, in fact, that when the Clinton administration ended in 2000, we felt like a country moving forward. When Mr. Bush left office last month, he'd pushed the country back to the 1950s.
"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. Embryonic stem cells are the most basic human cells which can develop into any type of cell in the body. Scientists believe the research could eventually produce cures for a variety of diseases, including Parkinson's disease, diabetes, heart disease and spinal cord injuries."
President Bush's kowtowing to the religious right pushed us so far back in terms of social policy, it felt as if the United States had somehow morphed into Afghanistan during the Taliban's reign. Many of us felt repressed by the government, because of both the injection of religion and morality into law and the feeling that Big Brother was watching our every move for no good reason.
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Is that the real, honest to goodness title??
Hey YOU IDIOT, Gerbil, ALL the progress in stem cell use have been from ADULT STEM CELLS!!!!
The Bush policies only seemed Taliban-like to those too stupid to know anything about the Taliban or anything whatsoever.
Bonnie, you ignorant slut! Not providing federal funding to stem cell research does not equal Taliban or Big Brother. Take your Midol and knock off the hyperbole.
Sounds like something a rodent would write.
Bonnie GERBIL?
Who?
Yes, it is!
We are SO doomed...
Bonnie Erbe. This isn’t actually in USNWR. It’s a blog on their site.
LOL! What a dope I am, I thought that was her real name. I’m sitting here laughing at pissant’s rewrite.
Unreal
Bonnie Gerbil zotted.
How is that pronounced?
Don’t confuse the stupid witch with facts. I thought US News and World Report had folded hopefully soon.
based on her politics, she should be applauding Pres. Bush
A) ALL of the stem cell successes have come from Adult stem cell work.
B) Embryonic stem cell work has resulted in failures.
C) EVEN IF one were to suppose that Embryonic stem cell work would 'work' -- surely Ms. Erbel would not be so willfully blind not to understand people have concerns that that a step in this direction would be treading awfully close to using babies/fetuses simply to harvest their organs... I don't care if someone guaranteed me an extra 100 years of life -- there are some lines we don't cross.
D) And this bogeyman of comparing the Bush Administration to the 'Taliban' is utter bile. Ms. Erbel would compare anyone who had the slightest degree of Fear for the LORD as being equivalent to the 'Taliban'. The Bible uses a word to describe those that don't Fear the LORD (see Psalm 14:1), and I suppose Ms. Erbel will take that as her name...
Of course, Clinton funded zero stem cell research and Bush funded some, but no one is upset with Clinton. Of course, the truth is that private stem cell funding has always been unrestricted. The left only wants token federal funding to put the stamp of legitimacy on the destruction of human embryos which in the end supports their religion of abortion.
Private funding was not prohibited.
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