And yet they were right. Not one person has been cured with embryonic stem cells. Not one.
And this is why the left simply stopped talking about it.
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For me, it culminated when Michael J. Fox used his disease to work against a Republican up for election (and Republicans in general) on the basis that Fetal Stem cell research could help him, Christopher Reeves, et al. Totally disingenuous lies. He even bragged how he didn’t take his meds so he’d shake and tremor when being interviewed.
The truth is that they could never produce any valid and documented results that indicated ONLY fetal stem cells could do what they were implying.
Today, we are left with their public abandonment of it because they (Planned Parenthood) was/is(?) making a bundle off murdered baby research (that probably includes stem cells, to boot).
I don’t think the war has gone away; it is just furtively covert now, hiding among the billions of baby butchering dollars that Planned Parenthood amasses.
It’s all about the kickbacks to the researchers and universities. There are just too many of these issues to keep track of. We can’t win all of them. If they Nazis were smart, instead of blitzkrieg, they would have started 6 million little fires. Then watched their enemies scurry about trying to put them out. The problem is we have an enemy within.
Not defending embryonic stem cell research but his reasoning is flawed. All those people would say it was vital at the time but now an alternative has been developed.
Why not ask former Missouri US Senator Jim Talent. Republicans in SW Missouri abandoned him over a stem cell remark he made while in office.
Not even when those hellspawn who advocated and participated in genocidal murder-by-abortion are tried, convicted, sentenced, and hanged for their crimes against humanity.
Science took over. Too many issues with donated cells of any kinds (rejection,etc), embryo stem cells are too unstable.
All the medical advances were only moving forward using a person’s own stem cells.
Now the only research being done with embryos is forced. For example, I want funding for my stem cell project embryos aren’t my focus but if I use embryos, I can get funding from California’s stem cell initiative program, etc.
It’s amazing to me that the lust and desire to kill unborn babies was justified by this scenario. And many Democrat “Christians” we knew told us we were old outdated fundamentalists that weren’t as progressive as Jesus Christ. One couple told my wife and I “If you’re so strong against abortion, we aren’t you adopting all those poor babies who would have no families after they were born?” So now we were at fault for those women who were pregnant. Such hatred and bigotry we endured from many friends who soon became ex-friends. They’re hatred was just too much for us. They saw us as too rigid in our laws and Jesus was full of grace and would forgive those who have abortions. Now we are being bombarded because we don’t like gay marriage. We are told by many of these same “Christians” that Jesus would eat with sinners and would hang out with sinners. So I asked one of them, why don’t they hang out on the gay areas of San Francisco, and she said “Well, I accept them, and that’s enough”.
There is no longer any gray area between believers and those who reject God in this country anymore. Pastors who are gay and living with their partners lead churches, and the church leadership are filled with divorced people who are even now cheater on their 2nd and 3rd spouses. Youth leaders teach the young to embrace “diversity of gays and other religions” in order to find what God they want to follow. Sermons are filled with earthly and fleshly promises if they believe, like God is some kind of Genie in a bottle. And then our President tells us homosexuality is moral and those who are against it are immoral.
This all started when we disobeyed the first commandment, and denied God. Then be built idols, disobeyed our parents, lusted after the flesh and worldly things, lied and stole, and coveted. Abortion is just a symptom of a greater issue. And so is this stem cell issue, a symptom of a greater sin
Michael answers his own question in the third sentence.
As long as the gravy train keeps running we will never hear about stem cell research. If the funding should ever begin slowing down, the "war" will re-escalate.
NASA has that act down pat with their "OMG! There might have been life on Mars! We need more funding to find out for sure!" routine.
No, it was because they coudl get no further traction so they moved on to the next crisis.
Remembers Alinskly? “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag”...
Thank you for posting this. Interesting read.
Here in Illinois our governor by executive order, no votes,set up a stem cell research laboratory.
Millions of state funds!
Once saw a listing of the board of directors and their pay $$$; after that nothing?
They were going to cure male pattern baldness and...
Yes, we still pay interest on the borrowed money.
And yes, Blago is still in prison.
Where he should be for this crime; the other stuff, not so much.
That’s not why. It’s the opposite. The truth never stops government funding. We fought them to a standstill and let reality catch up. That’s why we’re winning on abortion and losing on Same Sex Attraction. The devastation of SSA is hidden both from the general public and those who are inclined or currently suffering from SSA.