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Posted on 03/19/2008 7:25:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
There needs to be an infusion of enlightened self interest. Scientists should profit from their discoveries and bringing them to the public.
However, it appears that chasing grants is taking precedence over new medical breakthroughs.
Money chasing is normal. Serving your fellow man and profiting from it is moral. When it happens in the so called selfless pursuit of science and medicine, it is immoral.
God, how many lives could these people save if they put that energy into new antibiotics for MRSA and XDR TB?
More liberal funding in search of justification for abortion.
There is NO SCIENTIFIC OR MEDICAL POTENTIAL IN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS!!!
They might as well fund “Rock Research” in an effort to find GOLD in the rocks in your yard.
WELL!!!!!! YOU NEVER KNOW!!!!
Jeepers. Thanks for the ping!
BTTT
They’re still trying to hoodwink everyone on this? Haven’t most people heard that ESCR is now not only unproven, but entirely unnecessary, due to new procedures which can change other cells into a pluripotent state?
Addressing the Moral Concerns of Advanced TechnologyStem cell research offers tremendous hope for those suffering from a variety of deadly diseases - hope for both cures and life-extending treatments. However, the compassion to relieve suffering and to cure deadly disease cannot erode moral and ethical principles.
For this reason, John McCain opposes the intentional creation of human embryos for research purposes. To that end, Senator McCain voted to ban the practice of "fetal farming," making it a federal crime for researchers to use cells or fetal tissue from an embryo created for research purposes. Furthermore, he voted to ban attempts to use or obtain human cells gestated in animals. Finally, John McCain strongly opposes human cloning and voted to ban the practice, and any related experimentation, under federal law.
As president, John McCain will strongly support funding for promising research programs, including amniotic fluid and adult stem cell research and other types of scientific study that do not involve the use of human embryos.
Where federal funds are used for stem cell research, Senator McCain believes clear lines should be drawn that reflect a refusal to sacrifice moral values and ethical principles for the sake of scientific progress, and that any such research should be subject to strict federal guidelines.
Advance Stem Cell Research: Despite recent advances pointing to alternatives like adult stem cell and cord blood, embryonic stem cells remain unmatched in their potential for treatment of a wide variety of diseases and health conditions. Barack Obama has been a long-term supporter of increased stem cell research. He introduced legislation while a member of the Illinois Senate that would allow embryonic stem cell research in Illinois. Obama has cosponsored legislation to allow greater federal government funding on a wider array of stem cell lines. Obama believes we need high ethical standards that allow for research on stem cells derived from embryos produced for in vitro fertilization, embryos that would otherwise be needlessly destroyed.
"It's time to unlock the potential of stem cell research and put an end to the backwards and restrictive policies of this administration," Clinton said. "Our scientists have been set back years in the race for life-saving cures because they've been held back by a narrow ideology that rejects sound science. As President, I will lift the ban on ethical embryonic stem cell research and allow our scientists to pursue treatments that could help millions of Americans."
My three posts above for McCain, Obama, and Clinton shows that one of the candidates mentioned do not "support expanded federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research."
Yet another ‘minor’ difference in the Republican and democrap candidates. /sarc
The ‘lie’berals in America and around the world do not consider embryos from human fertilization to yet be human beings. Even prominent Mormons like Orrin Hatch will not acknowledge the humaity/person status of an embryo not yet implanted in a living woman’s body. ... One wonders what dissembled folks like Orrin will call the embryos implanted in extra-uterine tissues and then harvested for tissues a few months later, after ‘sufficient gestational development’?
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