Most of us are already aware that Obama has decided to use Federal funds (taxpayer money) to fund embryonic stem cell research, which has shown NO results except to destroy life. The part that has not gotten much press is that at the same time, he has defunded adult stem cell research, which has shown results without destroying life.
Way to go Barry.
President Barack Obama did more on Monday than just force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research that requires the destruction of human life. He also rescinded an executive order President Bush put into place funding adult stem cells and new research with iPS cells.
Obama also rescinded Executive Order 13435 of June 20, 2007.
President Bush put that order in place in June 2007 when he vetoed a Congressional measure that would have required embryonic stem cell research funding.
Instead of signing the bill, President Bush issued an executive order to press for more research into ways of obtaining embryonic stem cells without harming human life. The order was intended to ultimately fund research into alternatives" to destructive embryonic stem cell research such as altered nuclear transfer (ANT), "regression" (reverting differentiated cells into stem cells), and other methods.
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We refer to the time when the Catholic Church ruled the world as the Dark Ages. This is why.
The life destroyed is a clump of 64 cells. If you believe that there is a soul in there, that is your private religious belief. Most tax payers do not share this so it is you who are imposing your beliefs on others, not tax payers who are being abused.
Clearly, if you think stem-cell research has done nothing more than destroy lives then you need to do some research into the facts.
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Ken: interesting choice of words: The "life destroyed" is a clump of 64 cells. It IS a life.
Elgringo: It is Embryonic stem cells that destroy life with no results.
Adult stem cells have shown much promise, without destroying life.
I totally support ADULT stem cell research.
The problem is people don't view the tiny as human. They do understand however that you can't get to a trillion dollars unless you first count each and every penny. Just as a penny is %100 real money -so is an embryo %100 reeal human life.
Serious ads of this simple type teaching might turn it around.
The problem is people don't view the tiny as human. They do understand however that you can't get to a trillion dollars unless you first count each and every penny. Just as a penny is %100 real money -so is an embryo %100 reeal human life.
Serious ads of this simple type teaching might turn it around.
Only historically illiterate people refer to the age of the Church as the Dark Ages. Real historians refer only to the first couple centuries after the fall of the Western Empire as the "Dark Ages," though that moniker properly describes only England and Northern Europe.
The High Middle Ages witnessed tremendous progress in the arts, sciences, philosophy, technology, and literature, at a time when the only institutions of higher learning were sponsored by the Church. If you study medieval philosophy in any depth, you can only be struck by how facile and childish are modern metaphysics and political philosophy. Fittingly, irreligion started to become popular around the same time (19th cent) that intellectuals became philosophically illiterate.
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