2 out of 3 voters favor stem cell research. This is a sad statistic, which would tell you that we are living in a time when our government is not or does not hold the same values as we do. I should say that President Bush doesn’t, but what can you expect from someone who has not driven a car or bought groceries in the last well, which knows how many years.
The idea that, by vetoing the bill you save embryos from being destroyed. There is one little problem with this concept, THOSE EMBROYS WERE MARKED TO BE DESTROYED. I am sorry but some presidents are idiots or rather the people that help them are.
On July 8th in a CNN.com article Bush was sited for wanting to urge more science research funding:
The proposal is part of Bush's initiative to boost U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace through innovation. He also wants to train thousands of new science and math teachers and extend a popular tax credit businesses can receive for investing in research and development. The total price tag over 10 years would be $136 billion.
All right, so which kind of scientific research do you want to fund here. I mean if we want to stay on top of EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD then we need to be conducting research into stem cells you not so smart president.
But my bad I guess all we are good at is selling out our children.
Stem cell research could help not only certain major ailments but also restore sight, damaged nervous systems, and spinal injuries.
The thing about stem cells is that they can turn into any of 220 different types of cells, which means they can adapt and fix problems.
How would that help us? I don’t know, just think grandma might be able to remember her grandchildren’s faces, the soldier that is in the hospital from Iraq with a spinal injury could walk again, and people that lose their sight in a workplace accident could see again.
WOW and you do not want to fund that project because you want to save embryos from being destroyed that were already going to be destroyed. GREAT LOGIC.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/10/17/edward.bailey/index.html/
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/14/fs.stemcellprofile/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/08/bush.radio.ap/index.html?section=cnn_allpolitics
3 comments:
I was an embryo once.
Anonymous
Everyone was an embryo ones you ninny. The difference is you weren’t destroyed in the zygote stage because some religious freak thought you were a baby. Who thought his dogma was more important than scientific research that holds the promise of life for babies with horrific fatal diseases. I surmise that you reached full term; a whole person without any devastating disease to contend with. How fortunate for you. Some are not so lucky.
Christina Johnstone
I can speak as a person who lost a family member to Huntington’s disease; I can say that my beautiful sister’s long term suffering was agony for our family, so much that her passing was greeted as a mercy. She was 37 years old and weighed 77 lbs when she passed away. Sadly; I know that my family and I are not alone. Many people and their families are forced to endure this indescribable pain. This is not God’s will. We have been blessed by way of medical science to find cures and alleviate suffering that was not available to us 50 years ago. We still have far to go, but I have faith that we will get there sooner or later. Sooner, if we elect progressive thinkers, much, much later if we don’t.
These painful and deeply personal decisions should not be legislated or used as a political tool by any political party. To use the suffering of people - remember these are husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers – is a sacrilege of the worst kind. Politicians should stay out of these decisions, but the gift and knowledge of medical science should be available to us all.
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