Posted on 03/09/2009 9:39:20 AM PDT by magdalen
Obama to Sign Executive Order Monday Opening Public Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09030611.html
By John-Henry Westen
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - President Barack Obama plans to rescind the Bush policy limiting federal funding for embryo destructive research on Monday. The Bush policy had allowed federal funding for experiments on already existing lines of embryos, but forbade the funds from being used to create new embryos for experimentation.
According to news reports, a signing ceremony will take place on Monday at 11 am. Details about the Executive Order are not available, but according to the Washington Post, "proponents expect Obama will simply lift the restriction without caveats and let the NIH work out the details."
Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council commented on the news, saying, "Today's news that President Obama will open the door to direct taxpayer funds for embryonic stem cell research that encourages the destruction of human embryos is a slap in the face to Americans who believe in the dignity of all human life."
Perkins added: "I believe it is unethical to use human life, even young embryonic life, to advance science. While such research is unfortunately legal, taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for experiments that require the destruction of human life."
The Family Research Council leader pointed out that "Obama's policy change is especially troubling given the significant adult stem cell advances that are being used to treat patients now without harming or destroying human embryos."
He concluded, "Despite the significant advances using adult stem cells to treat patients, and new techniques to create stem cells from any patient, President Obama will choose to direct taxpayer's money to experiments that represent the poorest stem cell science.
Just this week ten pro-life Members of Congress spoke on stem cell research during a Special Order organized by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ). Smith and the other pro-life Congressman observed that embryonic stem-cell research is not only unethical, but unnecessary, given the superior results achieved through adult stem cell research.
"Human embryo-destroying stem cell research is not only unethical, unworkable and unreliable, it is now demonstrably unnecessary," said Smith. "Adult stem cells ... are truly remarkable. They work, they have no ethical baggage, and advances are made every day at a dizzying pace.
But despite so much progress in the adult stem cell field, "the Obama administration and the House and Senate Democratic leadership remain obsessed with killing human embryos for experimentation at taxpayer expense," said Smith.
(Video of the Special Order is available on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=03B71601DFA5FFAA)
God Forgive Us.
“We did it for science.”
Another nail in Obama’s coffin.
If it shows such promise.....where's all the private funding? Afterall, any cure is worth at least a gizzillion dollars.
I’m sick of rule by executive edict.
This is entirely unconstitutional and Barry O’bama knows he doesn’t have the votes in Congress to push through his radical agenda.
We need a Constitutional amendment to protect human life. Not because such protections are not already present, but to clearly prohibit activist judges and little dictators from trying to establish a new America that supports genetic cannibalism and human harvesting.
“Bringing science back to its rightful place...”
Academia has become a political tool of Democrats, including science.
The dirty little secret is that if there are not enough embryos for TESTING, then there certainly won’t be sufficient (under current morality) for commercial medical use in treatment and cures (we will HAVE to farm embryos, preferably cloned humans so there are fewer variables to consider).
I am sick at my stomach watching the things we fought for long and hard, all by the wayside. This country will be destroyed before we have any chance to take it back
Not only may God forgive us, but God HELP us...
Point this out the next time a pro-abort fanatic screams "If you don't want an abortion, don't have one!"
Mr. Obama, why am I being punished with an abortion bill?
It's all a sham. He's a secular humanist but the Democrats have known since 2006 that they had to get the religious right (including black voters who opposed homosexuality and abortion).
A slap in the face is just the start. Prepared to be body slammed by the most radical pro-Abortionist President ever.
With each of these ‘policies’ bobo just adds more fuel to that everlasting fire of hell awaiting one such as him.
May God forgive us who mourn this abomination. Even though many of us knew the horror awaiting this country should he become elected, I am ashamed and horrified at what is happening so very quickly now.
There is NO NEED for Embryonic stem cell research, the only reason to keep doing this is so some laboratories delving into cloning, will be able to continue i.e., cloning is the only reason to keep Embryonic Stem Cell research alive....and they will do it with some of your money. Obama doesn't really care what some Americans think, he is all about power and getting rid of American Values anyway he can.
Narcissistic? Maybe.... Look how he treated the British PM and Mrs Browne...guilty of being ignorant on the protocol of foreign dignitaries you say....hardly, he doesn't like the Brits and he was arrogant about it. Narcissistic?.....there is a grand possibility he is...read how Hitler came into power, almost a mirror image of personalities. Whatever, he is definitely Marxist and leading this country into that world where only the elitists live well along with those few favored still in power. Barney Frank comes to mind, and those perverts like him.
So whose fault is it next week when people with spinal cord injuries aren’t walking, people with Parkinsons still have tremors and those with Alzeimers still can’t remember? The liberals actually believe that there is magic in them there stem cells and it just took Obama to allow it to come out.
Proving, once again, how correct so many Freepers have been over the last 8 years; There's not a DIMES worth of difference between George Bush and a Democrat.
Stem cells hold great promise. BUT NOT EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS!
Those lines are causing cancers. Those lines in vaccines are causing autism. NO GOOD THING CAN COME FROM THE CREATING AND DESTROYING OF LIFE. This mocks God, the true Author of life. It is demonic at the core.
Yes, money to research stem cells from other sources is not something I will contend with. Money spent on destroying embryos I will content with.
It is far better to have parkinsons that to take a life so that another’s can be easier.
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