Posted on 07/07/2002 11:24:26 AM PDT by Keyes For President
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Bush administration has approved the first federally funded project using stem cells obtained from fetuses aborted up to eight weeks after conception, expanding the scientific promise of stem cell research and complicating the ethics debate that surrounds it.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
I'm not sure I understand the question. If Bush didn't sign the Federal budget, we have a serious problem.
Beats me. Looks like a combination of misleading headline, people who didn't read the entire article, and people with an agenda.
But what do I know? ;-)
If this is true, why bother to vote?
Maybe because of a sense of doing one's civil duty? That's why I vote.
Coincidentally, this grant was approved on May 20, 2002.
That may well be true, I don't dispute it.
I think you are trying to defend Bush to me when I wasn't "bashing" him to begin with. I was "bashing" the concept that Congress somehow made a law in 1993 that ensured funding for something, off into the future, without Executive recourse.
That did not happen.
"Dr. Elias Zerhouni is the President's nominee for Director of the NIH."
..."Confirmation hearing exerpts led by the "humble" (according to Warner) Ted Kennedy:
..."As Executive Vice Dean at Johns Hopkins I was instrumental in creating an Institute for Cell Engineering. Primarily because I was concerned about the lack of federal funding to advance the fundamental research needed in this new and fledging field. This is why I believe that in the current state of science the August 9 policy set by the president was an important advance. For the first time it allowed NIH funding for stem cell research, something which had not been in the previous administration.
...We still have to go on, but there is another important topic that all of you have raised. And, that is that after years of effort from you, Senators, and the rest of the members of Congress, the doubling of the budget is almost here to be completed, as proposed by President Bush. This occurred despite all the difficulties faced by the nation.
...I think there are diseases we can't prevent for sure, but those that are preventable we need to do a lot more than what we're doing. Particularly, in terms of the drivers of behavior that leads people to really hurt themselves.
...MIKULSKI: Just one other, as you can see, the Liberal Arts graduates are trying to hang in there. Just a question about, on Page 3 of your testimony, Dr. Zerhouni, about the Institute for Stem Cell Engineering at Hopkins. If we go to the third paragraph from the bottom on page three, you say I was instrumental in creating an institute for stem cell engineering. Primarily because I was concerned about the lack of federal funding to advance the fundamental research still needed in this promising but fledging field.
Zerhouni Nomination Further Proof of Bush Betrayal on Embryonic Stem Cells
Commentary by Patrick Delaney
Assistant Director of Public Policy
American Life League
May 4, 2002
"With the recent nomination of Dr. Elias Zerhouni of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to head the National Institute of Health, Bush has taken another step that will ultimately only serve those who favor unlimited embryo research.
Last month American Life League’s Judie Brown was the lone voice to issue a warning that Zerhouni “is a man who has pushed embryo destruction at Johns Hopkins University and will undoubtedly promote embryo killing on the federal level.” ALL pointed out that “Zerhouni was a driving force in establishing the Institute for Cell Engineering, (at John Hopkins) which intends to advance embryonic stem cell research.”
Too bad the line-item veto was declared unconstitutional. I'm still not sure I understand that.
Still, it looks to me as if the funding was there and the staff or director decided on how to distribute it. And this grant was approved on the Clinton-appointed acting director's last day on the job.
1)Pres Bush himself (and past presidents) has said, "...I will introduce legislation...". If I'm an uninformed of my civics, they are also.
2)Anyone with an IQ over 70, without ever hearing that phrase before, should have been able to get at the main point regardless.
3)You still NEVER addressed the issue to begin with which was the fact that Bush and all his administration can write a bill and introduce it to congress through one of the many who would be willing to repeal the '93 law
I compared you to a liberal because you took 3 words out of a sentence of more than 20 and totally changed the meaning around (ie taking things out of context) which is what most liberals do.
The last point I'll make is I'm not opposed to stem cell research on its face, what I am opposed to is federal funding of it.
Dang Uncle Bill, I tried so hard to pick out just one thing in your post.
So I finally picked that one.
So little time.
Heck, I remember when GW wasn't running, but the GOP was running him anyway.
He said he didn't want to be President and his wife and the girls didn't want him to be.
Oh well. We got him.
If you don't vote for him, we will have President Gore.
I don't notice a difference.
Other than we would all be raising heck. If Gore was doing and not doing this stuff.
SEC. 113. NULLIFICATION OF MORATORIUM.
(a) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in subsection (c), no official of the executive branch may impose a policy that the Department of Health and Human Services is prohibited from conducting or supporting any research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes. Such research shall be carried out in accordance with section 498A of the Public Health Service Act (as added by section 111 of this Act ), without regard to any such policy that may have been in effect prior to the date of the enactment of this Act .
(b) Prohibition Against Withholding of Funds in Cases of Technical and Scientific Merit-
(1) IN GENERAL- Subject to subsection (b)(2) of section 492A of the Public Health Service Act (as added by section 101 of this Act ), in the case of any proposal for research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may not withhold funds for the research if--
(A) the research has been approved for purposes of subsection (a) of such section 492A;
(B) the research will be carried out in accordance with section 498A of such Act (as added by section 111 of this Act ); and
(C) there are reasonable assurances that the research will not utilize any human fetal tissue that has been obtained in violation of section 498B(a) of such Act (as added by section 112 of this Act ).
(2) STANDING APPROVAL REGARDING ETHICAL STATUS- In the case of any proposal for research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes, the issuance in December 1988 of the Report of the Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel shall be deemed to be a report--
(A) issued by an ethics advisory board pursuant to section 492A(b)(5)(B)(ii) of the Public Health Service Act (as added by section 101 of this Act ); and
(B) finding, on a basis that is neither arbitrary nor capricious, that the nature of the research is such that it is not unethical to conduct or support the research.
(c) AUTHORITY FOR WITHHOLDING FUNDS FROM RESEARCH- In the case of any research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may withhold funds for the research if any of the conditions specified in any of subparagraphs (A) through (C) of subsection (b)(1) are not met with respect to the research.
(d) DEFINITION- For purposes of this section, the term `human fetal tissue' has the meaning given such term in section 498A(f) of the Public Health Service Act (as added by section 111 of this Act ).
I think they should be, too. I don't know about that.
When and about what did GW overturn an EO?
Thanks. I was never good at spelling.
You are so smart.
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