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  • Obama Admin Ignored Majority Who Opposed Embryonic Rules

    07/07/2009 10:34:16 AM PDT · by julieee · 3 replies · 288+ views
    LifeNews.com ^ | July 7, 2009 | Steven Ertelt
    Obama Admin Ignored Majority Who Opposed Embryonic Rules Washington, DC -- The National Institutes of Health is drawing condemnation today from pro-life advocates who say it ignored the majority of Americans who opposed the proposed guidelines that would implement President Barack Obama's decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research. See http://www.LifeNews.com/bio2885.html
  • Crowder: Embryonic Stem Cell FUN!!

    07/01/2009 7:18:46 AM PDT · by coachep95 · 4 replies · 269+ views
    Check out the latest video from Steven Crowder
  • Obama Scraps President's Bioethics Council After Forcing Embryonic Funding

    06/22/2009 3:05:46 PM PDT · by julieee · 11 replies · 694+ views
    LifeNews.com ^ | June 22, 2009 | Steven Ertelt
    Obama Scraps President's Bioethics Council After Forcing Embryonic Funding The President's Council on Bioethics is no more. With a one-day notice, the members were told in a letter from the President that their services were no longer required. Pack up, get out. Forget the fact that they had a couple of interesting reports coming out soon, one more meeting, and that the Council's tenure would expire come this September. See http://www.LifeNews.com/bio2874.html
  • Stem Cells Polarize Ethics

    04/07/2009 10:43:54 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 9 replies · 642+ views
    CEH ^ | April 7, 2009
    April 7, 2009 — Adult stem cells are continuing to promise revolutionary therapies, while embryonic stem cells remain a political football even after Obama’s loosening of restrictions.  Some stories seem to suppress the word “embryonic” and just talk about “stem cells,” but there is a big difference in the ethics of one over the other.  Embryonic stem cells require harvesting a human embryo. Adult Stem Cell News Diabetes:  Sufferers of peripheral artery disease, common among diabetics, may have hope using stem cells from their own bone marrow.  PhysOrg reported that researchers at the University of Western Ontario isolated three types...
  • Did Obama Allow Human Cloning? (George-Kmiec debate)

    03/20/2009 6:09:39 AM PDT · by Notwithstanding · 13 replies · 582+ views
    US News ^ | 3/17/2009 | Dan Golgoff
    Here's the final installment of the E-mail debate between conservative Catholic legal scholars Robby George and Doug Kmiec over whether President Obama's executive order on embryonic stem cell research authorizes federally funded human cloning. In the first E-mail in this post, Kmiec responds to George's point-by-point analysis of Obama's new embryonic stem cell research policy, arguing that Obama's policy will very likely outlaw human cloning. In the second E-mail, George closes the debate by decrying Kmiec's definition of human cloning and invites him to debate the matter in public.
  • President Obama okays funding embryonic stem cell research (but removes adult stem cell funding)

    03/19/2009 8:31:43 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 39 replies · 1,783+ views
    CMI ^ | March 19, 2009 | Lita Cosner
    Obama’s anti-life ideology ... Obama is not opposed to restricting adult stem cell research, because the same executive order which gives funding to embryonic stem cell research takes away funding from adult stem cell research. This is a senseless move on the part of the president; the only stem cell research he is interested in funding is precisely the most dangerous kind, the only kind that a large segment of the population is opposed to on moral grounds, and the only one that has consistently failed to produce the promised ‘miracle cure’ results. If he were really concerned about life-saving...
  • News to Note: A weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint

    03/15/2009 8:41:12 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 3 replies · 561+ views
    AiG ^ | March 14, 2009
    News to Note: A weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint March 14, 2009 In this issue: 1. AP: “More Americans Say They Have No Religion” 2. LiveScience: “Scientists See God on the Brain” 3. ScienceNOW: “Arrest That Chimp!” 4. BBC News: “Obama Ends Stem Cell Funding Ban” 5. ScienceDaily: “Live Evolution Witnessed In Controlled Environment Of Microbial Predator And Prey” 6. Washington Post: “The Genesis of a Debate” (The Washington Post follows along on a creationist journey through the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) And much more at the following link:
  • Obama And Stem Cells: Killing Human Beings In Name Of 'Science' Nothing New

    03/10/2009 4:10:08 PM PDT · by Michael Eden · 2 replies · 317+ views
    Start Thinking Right ^ | March 10, 2009 | Michael Eden
    We are having another one of those amazing moments when Barack Obama - acting as a radical leftist ideologue and advancing a leftist political agenda - summons that amazing degree of personal chutzpah that he alone possesses to condemn his opponents as partisan. Sort of like when Obama - caught red-handed having spent 23 years in a racist and anti-American church - proceeded to offer a pompous moralizing sermon on race relations. Most people - even most politicians (which is saying a lot) - would have faded away with shame had they been caught in such a radical and hateful...
  • Stem Cells: Does Their Origin Matter?

    03/09/2009 7:55:16 PM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 51 replies · 1,341+ views
    Answers Magazine ^ | Dr. Georgia Purdom
    Stem Cells Does Their Origin Matter? Preserving life—it is extremely important in the Christian faith. But what is the biblical definition of life, and how does this definition affect stem cell research?God clearly commands in Exodus 20:13: “You shall not murder [the intentional, predatory killing of another]” (NIV; see also Matthew 19:18; Romans 13:9). A big controversy today is that of determining when life begins. In the field of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR), this determination is especially crucial. Because technology is advancing faster than society’s ethics, we are left to solve such dilemmas in the midst of active...
  • ABC Champions President Obama's Embryo-Destroying Stem Cell Decision

    03/09/2009 2:40:47 PM PDT · by Pyro7480 · 10 replies · 443+ views
    NewsBusters.org ^ | 3/9/2009 | Matthew Balan
    Correspondent Lisa Stark’s report on ABC’s World News on Sunday almost completely slanted in favor of President Obama’s decision to overturn the ban on federal funding of stem cell research which destroys human embryos. Stark minimized the controversial nature of the research, devoting only one sound bite out of four to a critic of the president’s move. Anchor Dan Harris introduced Stark’s report by selling the apparent promise of embryonic stem cell research: “President Obama is going to fulfill one of his campaign promises by ending restrictions on federally-funded research using embryonic stem cells. This could lead to better treatments...
  • Elect Obama, Get Embryonic Stem Cells (Obama puts YOUR tax dollars to work)

    03/09/2009 8:30:09 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 23 replies · 916+ views
    CEH ^ | March 8, 2009
    Elect Obama, Get Embryonic Stem CellsMarch 8, 2009 — President Obama is about to fulfill one of his campaign promises: lifting restrictions on creating new embryonic stem cell lines (see Fox News).  The question now is, are they really needed?  They have yet to show any successes, while adult stem cells are enjoying an accelerating boom of amazing discoveries that could provide hope for some of mankind’s worst disorders. (Note: ESC = embryonic stem cells, ASC = adult stem cells). Muscular dystrophy:  Children and adults plagued by the muscle-wasting malady of muscular dystrophy may now have hope thanks to...
  • At What Price?

    03/09/2009 8:13:26 AM PDT · by Selkirk · 6 replies · 429+ views
    Political Castaway ^ | 3/9/2009 | Selkirk
    Here it comes again. Stem cells. We hear about them a lot, and if the hype is to be believed, stem cells will be the reason why cancer and the common cold are finally cured. President Obama has signaled his intention to reverse the Bush Administration policy against federal funding of any institution that engages in embryonic stem cell research. No real surprise there, as he indicated during his campaign that he would do precisely that. Again to no surprise, the media, led by WaPo, is eating it up. As the media and other left leaning "intellectuals" like to frame...
  • Sam Brownback - the latest GOP traitor?

    03/06/2009 4:52:19 PM PST · by publius321 · 22 replies · 976+ views
    “Mark Crutcher, president of Life Dynamics, Incorporated, says Brownback -- a self-professed pro-life Catholic -- "abandoned" the unborn by backing Sebelius... Crutcher says Brownback's desire to become the next governor of Kansas may be driving his support of Sebelius. "All of Brownback's flowery words in the past don't really mean much," he says. "When push comes to shove, he'll throw the unborn under the bus for some political advantage -- and that's what's happened here." http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=437992 I must say that this doesn't surprise me in the least. Throughout the primary debates I remember saying to my wife that this guy...
  • Why Embryonic Stem Cells Are Obsolete

    03/06/2009 1:49:55 PM PST · by highlander_UW · 27 replies · 765+ views
    US News & World Report ^ | 3/4/09 | Bernadine Healy, M.D.
    Even for strong backers of embryonic stem cell research, the decision is no longer as self-evident as it was, because there is markedly diminished need for expanding these cell lines for either patient therapy or basic research. In fact, during the first six weeks of Obama's term, several events reinforced the notion that embryonic stem cells, once thought to hold the cure for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and diabetes, are obsolete. The most sobering: a report from Israel published in PLoS Medicine in late February that shows embryonic stem cells injected into patients can cause disabling if not deadly tumors.
  • Origin of life questions, and what biblical creationists really believe

    02/07/2009 12:39:59 PM PST · by GodGunsGuts · 13 replies · 1,050+ views
    CMI ^ | February 7, 2009 | Jonathan Safarti, Ph.D.
    In reality, evolution has done nothing to help real science, and has actually hindered it in many ways...
  • Obama and Stem Cells: Hope Chest or Pandora’s Box?

    02/02/2009 4:21:19 PM PST · by GodGunsGuts · 27 replies · 838+ views
    CEH ^ | January 31, 2009
    Any day now, as he promised, President Obama will likely lift funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research imposed by former President Bush. Bush had sought the council of leading scientists and ethicists before making his decision. Obama, by contrast, will be yielding to the opinions of the scientific societies who have clamored for years that they need and want access to these morally-questionable cells. It’s a good time to ask if the research to date has been promising. .... Rats given the adult stem cells recovered significant motor activity one week after injury, Live Science reported. But ES cell...
  • CNN Guest on Embryo Destruction: 'Religious Right' Also Opposed Anesthesia and Cornea Transplants

    01/23/2009 8:20:53 PM PST · by Pyro7480 · 19 replies · 667+ views
    NewsBusters.org ^ | 01/23/2009 | Matthew Balan
    During a segment on Friday's Newsroom program, CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen heralded the FDA's approval of the first human clinical trial involving embryo-destroying stem cell research. Cohen then gave a soft interview of the president and CEO of the company involved in the trial, who made the bizarre claim that new medical breakthroughs, including corneal transplants and anesthesia for women in childbirth, were supposedly "always met with concerns from the Religious Right" in the past. Cohen did not follow-up to this statement by the CEO. The segment, which began 17 minutes into the 11 am Eastern hour of...
  • USC researchers derive first embryonic stem cells from rats

    12/24/2008 11:47:46 AM PST · by CE2949BB · 3 replies · 233+ views
    Science Codex ^ | December 24, 2008
    Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have, for the first time in history, derived authentic embryonic stem (ES) cells from rats. This breakthrough finding will enable scientists to create far more effective animal models for the study of a range of human diseases. The research will be published in the Dec. 26 issue of the journal Cell.
  • Who Wants Embryonic Stem Cells? (Let's start with Barack Hussein Obama)

    12/18/2008 5:39:03 AM PST · by GodGunsGuts · 19 replies · 550+ views
    CEH ^ | December 18, 2008
    Dec 17, 2008 — Amazing treatments continue to spring forth from adult stem cells – the stem cells with no ethical qualms attached. With adult stem cells easy to obtain doing so much good, why would anyone want embryonic stem cells (the stem cells with ethical qualms attached), when no usable treatments have yet been found? Here are some recent success stories with adult stem cells:
  • McCain launches pro-stem cells ad

    09/12/2008 9:42:44 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 34 replies · 181+ views
    The Hill ^ | 9/12/08 | Jeffrey Young
    Republican presidential nominee John McCain debuted a radio ad Friday designed to declare his unequivocal support for stem cell research. McCain voted in the Senate to expand federal funding for the controversial research but Democrats and advocates of the science have expressed concern that McCain’s support has wavered. Not so, according to the radio spot and a McCain spokesman. The ad does not specifically refer to embryonic research, which is opposed by most politicians and activists who, like McCain, do not support abortion rights. The omission is not a signal that McCain is backing away from his record in favor...