Posted on 10/09/2004 7:42:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Every reporter covering the election should, after the second presidential debate in St. Louis, be demanding of Kerry an answer to the following question: Who are the scientists who told you that "we have the option" of curing Parkinson's, diabetes, spinal-cord injuries, or any other disease using embryonic stem cells? If they won't ask him, the Bush campaign should defy him to name the names. He won't be able to do it. No scientists even those most pro-Kerry and aggressively in favor of the federal funding of embryo-destructive research ever told Kerry any such thing.
What Kerry has done here is told the big lie about embryonic stem cells. The claim that "we have the option" of curing Parkinson's disease, diabetes, etc. with embryonic stem cells is outrageous. No one knows when or even whether or not human embryonic stem cells will be therapeutically useful in treating any major disease or injury. There are profound perhaps insuperable problems with the therapeutic use of these cells. So, despite the fact that there is no federal ban on embryonic-stem-cell research, and that such research can be funded with state money and is being publicly funded in various places abroad, no embryonic-stem-cell-based therapy is even in clinical trials.
For months now, the Kerry campaign and its surrogates, such as Ron Reagan Jr., have cruelly led suffering people to believe that cures for their diseases are just around the corner. All we have to do is replace Bush with Kerry, open the federal funding spigot, and presto! The blind see and the lame walk! The Kerry campaign's hyping of embryo-destructive research for political gain is the cruelest and most shameful episode in the story of the 2004 election.
What Elizabeth Long (the woman who asked Kerry the stem-cell question) said is true: "Thousands of people have already been cured or treated by the use of adult stem cells or umbilical-cord stem cells. However, no one has been cured by using embryonic stem cells. Wouldn't it be wise to use stem cells obtained without the destruction of an embryo?
Kerry answered with a lie. A lie that will falsely inflate the hopes of countless people who would dearly love to believe that "we have the option" of curing them.
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program at Princeton University.
You would think with all the controversy, a reporter could "Google" this and report on it. The first I heard of stem cell research, I looked it up and low and behold, Adult and cord blood stem cells were giving great results, but ground up babies weren't working yet, in fact it was worse results. The idea was to get the cells before they committed to what they were supposed to be and manipulate them into growing into new cells that we forced them to be. The Adult stems and cord blood did well, so I couldn't figure out what the fuss was about.
You always have to think cynically when you analyze things about dead babies. It's for the MONEY! They are determined to find a use for soilent green so they don't have to throw them in the garbage. Then they could guarantee that abortion would remain legal so they could "cure" what ails ya.
The idea is to grow a new kidney or heart or even nerve tissue and tranplant it. The adult and cord cells help repair tissue but won't change yet. If they get embyo cells to grow to what they want, we will never stop abortion. They will even make it patriotic to kill your baby for science.
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Kerry is a pathological LIAR who will do and say anything to get elected. God help us if this pathetic excuse of a "man" ascends to the presidency. We are all in trouble!
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