Should President Bush temporarily suspend his ban on the use of stemcells?(Vanity)

9 June | Me

[aft_lizard]

Should President Bush temporarily lift his ban on new lines of stemcells?

I say he should. Not because of the death of Reagan but because if we dont the rest of the world will leave us behind in this burgeoning field. Not to mention that so long as fetuses are being destroyed during abortion, we might as well not let there sacrifices go in complete vain.

[sonofagun]

No. One cannot "temporarily" lower a moral standard.

Your rationalization is precisely the argument every mother who aobrts her baby wil use.

[afraidfortherepublic]

We can get all the stem cell material we need from unbilical cord tissue from new born live babies -- available in every maternity ward in the USA. We don't need to create a baby factory and kill human embryos for these cells. This is a false argument put forth by the pro-aborts.

[GeorgiaYankee]

It has never been proposed that stem cells be harvested from aborted fetuses. You may be confusing this issue with fetal tissue research.

Embyronic stem cell research involves creating embryos then harvesting stem cells when the embryo grows to about 16 cells in size. This destroys (KILLS) the embryo.

What the media won't tell you is that ADULT stem cells have already been saving lives for several years, and that there are tumor and cancer side-effects from embryonic stem cell use.

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2069&program=Bioethics&callingPage=discoMainPage

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1142855/posts

[gargoyle]

...No...

...Burgeoning field...

...Do you have an an agenda???

[Petronski]

"I'm opposed to the killin', you see, but we're missin' out on a gold mine...a gold mine I tells ya!"

[OldFriend]

NO NO NO a thousand times NO.

How shameful of Bob Dole. He was on with Brokejaw....and says.....if they really want to honor Ronald Reagan they can allow stem cell research.

I would have throttled him if I could.

[jwalsh07]

He said that? SOB.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
-- Jeremiah 1:5 KJV

[OldFriend]

That's what I get for surfing.......just could not believe my ears....but then it's Dole and he's a loser in a lot of ways.

[Atheist2Theist]

Good idea, we wouldn't want the rest of the world get ahead of us in murdering people for scientific purposes.

Hey maybe we can also harvest stuff from old people who aren't productive anymore.

Who cares that Adult stem-cell tests have actually been effective and are not a moral concern. Lets just start cranking out those babies and harvest them night and day.

[GoLightly]

Yes, my thoughts exactly. Diversity of DNA, without the downside of creating any incentive to murder.

[airborne]

No.

[Bommer]

"I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare the unalienable personhood of every American, from the moment of conception until natural death, and I do proclaim, ordain, and declare that I will take care that the Constitution and laws of the United States are faithfully executed for the protection of America's unborn children." - Presidential Proclamation, Jan. 14, 1988

[sarasmom]

No.
I "waste" an unfertilized egg every month.
Think of the potential benefits if only medical science found a way to determine through DNA or other testing if some of those wasted eggs really should have been harvested and fertilized for the greater good of mankind, instead of naturally destroyed through menstruation.
I did manage to bear a healthy and normal child, after all.
Why not just harvest all the rest of my "never intended to be fertilized eggs" today and combine them with various sperm combinations?
Strictly for scientific experimentation, of course.
After all, I was just going to destroy them anyways, by flushing them down a toilet or tossing a pad in the trash.
But my daughters "eggs" are really interesting, even more than mine!
Why not just harvest her ovaries now, along with a few of her age peers, while they are good and fresh?
How much will you offer me for one of her ovaries?
Is it more than the going rate for a healthy adult kidney?

We are, afterall, slightly short on cash this month./sarcasm//

[Texas Eagle]

President Bush doesn't have a ban on new lines of stem cells.

Oh, you must mean embryonic stem cells.

No. We should continue research on adult stem cells but let's not get suckered into promoting human sacrifice.

[wingman1]

That about takes care of it.

Where did you find this?

[wingman1]

Where does one "draw the line"? That has always been the question.

[aft_lizard]

<>> That is an ignorant question. We arent talking about adult life snuffed out. And I am not talking about snuffing out new life for these specific purposes. In my opinion, using everybodies logic here, than we need not use organs from the dead (especially those who were murdered) to help the living or donate blood.

[aft_lizard]

I guess you dont either.

[Knight Templar]

There is no ban on Stem Cell research.
Privately sponsored is OK.

Just no Government funds. As heard
from Michael Medved's mouth last
night....