Ignoring President Bush's threat of a veto, the House voted Tuesday to lift limits on embryonic stem cell research, a measure that supporters say could accelerate cures for diseases but opponents viewed as akin to abortion.
Bush does this photo op with these kids that were born from frozen embryos as if the stem cells to be used for research would deny these children being born, but this is so typically hypocritical of this administration. The only stem cells to be used for research are the ones to be discarded. So Bush is okay with discarding the stem cells but is against them being used for research. That's similar to outlawing organ donation.
And take the issue of abortion. The right makes it an issue they're against and twists the issue in a direction like the left would want rampant abortion. When, in fact, nobody is a fan of abortion. The issue is that it is to be allowed in certain circumstances. What do you think would happen if one of the Bush twins was raped by someone akin to this Dobbs maniac that killed his own daughter. I guarantee it would never come out that she had an abortion, but I guarantee you she would miscarry and that would be the end of it. Or do you think George in all his divine goodness would just accept this child as his first grandchild?
The right refers to abortion as murder, but they would never consider bringing up a woman who had an abortion on murder charges. I shouldn't say never, but it has never been called murder in that context. My point is that they talk about things in idealogical extremes for maximum distortion. Consider this, when you celebrate a birthday your age is calculated from the day you were born, not conceived . . . you're not 30 years and 9 months old. These things need to be looked at logically not idealogically. That's what I think.
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One important fact has fallen by the wayside in the brouhaha: the miracle cures are coming from cord blood and adult stem cells, not from embryonic stem cells.
Embryonic stem cell research is pie-in-the-sky, hoping for cures in some utopian future. Cord blood and adult stem cells are producing miracle cures in the here-and-now. They're restoring sight to the blind, curing terminally ill children, helping the paralyzed to walk, and treating leukemia. Why are some people still trying to pour money and resources down a hole when there's so much productive research going on elsewhere?
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