XXXXXXX, by Delegate Bob Marshall
Nowhere in any of the White House documents authorizing the moral travesty of experimentation on human embryos, does President Obama acknowledge that the research he wants to fund with tax monies involves the intentional death of newly created human beings.
Our 44th president, Barrack Obama, skips over this point of “creation.” His inaugural speech, referred to the “God-given promise that all are equal.” But our 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson, said, “all men are created equal.” Is this distinction above Obama’s pay grade?
Failure to acknowledge a man’s creation, means ignoring “inalienable rights endowed by our Creator.” How convenient!.
Mr. Obama accuses human experimentation opponents of ideological bias and politics. Yet American taxpayers will be forced to fund lethal research which provides NO cures, therapies, or clinical benefits!
Until now, the FDA had never approved embryo stem cell therapy because it promotes tumors and growth of wrong organs. Adult stem cell therapy works and has no ethical controversies.
Nature magazine reported last summer that Harvard scientists turned one type of adult cell directly into another type of adult cell which produces the specialized pancreative beta cells that secrete insulin. This new technique eliminates any scientific justification for using embryonic humans for research.
Apparently, Mr. Obama thinks he can improve the created order.
For three years (2005-07) I chaired the Virginia General Assembly Stem Cell Study. Members served from all persuasions on the issue. We had extensive and thorough public hearings with experts in medical, research, scientific and ethical fields.
The father of American embryo stem cell research, Dr. John Gearhart of John Hopkins University, told our Committee that transplanted embryo stem cells develop tumors and other problems. For these reasons, we unanimously concluded that Virginia should only support adult stem cell research. I believe Virginia is the only state which adopted its policy AFTER a thorough and impartial inquiry.
President Obama has crossed a moral fault line in the created Universe. He should reflect that while God always forgives, and man sometimes forgives, Nature never forgives and is a stern taskmaster.