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In yet another offensive assault against SCIENCE, President Bush has threatened to veto his very first bill, one that LIBERALIZES (love that word) the use of embryonic stem cells that are LEFT (love that word) over from in vitro fertilization, stem cells that would otherwise never be used for anything, that would be thrown away.
This bill is not about cloning, or the destruction of life, it is about forwarding science so that the millions of people suffering with many diseases may one day have their disease cured thru this incredible research. In today's Washington Post one of their EDITORIALS says:
Considering that Bush has never vetoed anything it is shocking that this bill is the one he elects to veto? Our country is speeding dangerously toward theocracy, and assholes like Bush are pandering to this movement.
The Religious Right (Jesus Freaks) whose asses Bush is kissing are trying to prevent SCIENCE. This is incredible. Supposedly "saving" the souls of embryos that will never, ever become a human being in lieu of saving lives of human beings is a sin against mankind.
Religion has no place in government, the bible has no place in lawmaking. How ironic will it be when Bush's Alzheimer progresses to the point that he will crave/wish that he had allowed the research to go forward? If that happens, would that mean that God is punishing him for being the complete asshole that he is? :rofl
One other important point to consider? As a nation we will fall seriously behind in this research. The advances will therefore come from outside the USA, so the technology and the industries that will be created will develop outside of America, costing all of us jobs, taxes and medical advancement. We will no longer be the world's leader in medical research, we will be losers.
Oh....and nothing Bush does will stop the development of this science. It will happen, just not in the USA.
This is not about abortion, this is about SCIENCE vs. THE BIBLE. IF we allow the Bible to prevent Science then we will all suffer, period.
This bill is not about cloning, or the destruction of life, it is about forwarding science so that the millions of people suffering with many diseases may one day have their disease cured thru this incredible research. In today's Washington Post one of their EDITORIALS says:
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/20/AR2005052001381.htmlNext Step on Stem Cells
Saturday, May 21, 2005; Page A18
THIS WEEK SOUTH Korean scientists announced an impressive breakthrough in the promising but still nascent field of "therapeutic cloning." Using donated human eggs and skin tissue from multiple patients suffering from various diseases or injuries, they were able to generate genetically individualized stem cell lines for each of the patients. These lines are capable of generating the specific types of cells that may be used in promising therapies for devastating conditions. The science is still a long way from providing cures -- and nobody knows whether it ever will -- but it is evidently developing quickly and impressively. For this reason, Congress needs to pass an important bill to liberalize President Bush's restrictive policy on stem cell research.
Research such as the South Korean experiment cannot take place with federal support in this country. President Bush's policy on stem cell research prevents federal money from funding stem cell work that doesn't use one of a handful of cell lines whose creation predated the policy's announcement. And the House has twice voted to criminalize human cloning -- even in the context of research that, like the South Korean project, is intended not to generate cloned people but to help cure the seriously ill.
A bill sponsored by Reps. Michael N. Castle (R-Del.) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) would not permit federal money to fund cloning research in which embryos are created to generate stem cells. It would, however, take the critical first step of allowing federal support for research on any stem cell line generated from embryos left over from in vitro fertilization, provided donors give their consent. These are small clusters of cells (not yet even a fetus) that will never grow into a baby because they will never be implanted in a woman's uterus. For this reason, support for liberalizing policy toward stem cell research is growing, even among those staunchly opposed to abortion. The bill, which Mr. Bush promised to veto yesterday, has a serious chance of passing the House, and supporters such as Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) are pushing for a vote in the Senate.
Mr. Bush's policy on stem cells was not the sellout to the religious right that his critics sometimes contend; it opened the door for federal funding, after all. But at this point, the policy has outlived its usefulness, and the president shows no sign of relaxing it on his own. Congress needs to do it for him.
Considering that Bush has never vetoed anything it is shocking that this bill is the one he elects to veto? Our country is speeding dangerously toward theocracy, and assholes like Bush are pandering to this movement.
The Religious Right (Jesus Freaks) whose asses Bush is kissing are trying to prevent SCIENCE. This is incredible. Supposedly "saving" the souls of embryos that will never, ever become a human being in lieu of saving lives of human beings is a sin against mankind.
Religion has no place in government, the bible has no place in lawmaking. How ironic will it be when Bush's Alzheimer progresses to the point that he will crave/wish that he had allowed the research to go forward? If that happens, would that mean that God is punishing him for being the complete asshole that he is? :rofl
One other important point to consider? As a nation we will fall seriously behind in this research. The advances will therefore come from outside the USA, so the technology and the industries that will be created will develop outside of America, costing all of us jobs, taxes and medical advancement. We will no longer be the world's leader in medical research, we will be losers.
Oh....and nothing Bush does will stop the development of this science. It will happen, just not in the USA.
This is not about abortion, this is about SCIENCE vs. THE BIBLE. IF we allow the Bible to prevent Science then we will all suffer, period.
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