Posted on 03/07/2009 3:23:29 PM PST by hocndoc
Just days after we hear about functioning induced Pluripotent stem cells from adult skin cells, cells that can produce dopamine, the proteins missing in Parkinson's disease, we read that President Obama is going to overturn the limits on funding for embryonic stem cell research. Despite the fact that these cells match the patient because they come from the patient, that they will be cheaper, more accessible and we believe have less risk of causing cancer, this Monday morning, the 9th of March, 2009, the White House plans a quiet ceremony to sign the Executive Order.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Mr. President. The great embryonic Oz will get you home. Do not look behind the curtain, ignore that little man.
"Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool!" (Thank you, Paul Begala.) We've been trying to spend a Trillion dollars every 10 days in the Obama administration. Let's just throw more good money after bad.
Typical of the news articles, is this one, from the US News and World Report, entitled (sigh)"Obama to End Stem Cell Ban Monday Researchers applaud his action, which is expected to kick-start efforts to unlock therapeutic potential."
I recommend that you read that link above, in order to compare reality with what the proponents of destructive embryonic stem cell research believe.
The article is so full of holes. The title and first paragraph say "ban." There never was a ban. Ask Daley and Melton of Harvard who have been creating embryos for destruction to harvest the parts.
And then, there's this gem of an emotional non sequitor, I'm afraid from my State of Texas:
"It's going to remove an embarrassment for American science," said Dr. Darwin Prockop, director of the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Scott & White Hospital in Temple, said in February. "It's a statement that we're going to again believe in science."Prockup must have been teased too much about his name as a child. Seriously, who among us stopped and now started to believe in science again?
We are not behind, we are not embarrassed, unless it's in imposing regulations. Even the "Progressives" are calling for more restrictions. The UK has more regulations on regenerative medicine and embryonic research than the US. France, Germany and Israel have similar limits on funding. Germany, at one time had criminal charges and fines attached to their ban.
CIRM has $3 Billion which must be spent on cloning and embryonic stem cell research. Their "Strategic Plan?" (This is a pdf, for a review, read this article at the CIRM website.) One cure and 2 trials in ten years. Who thinks the US is going to top their billions in embryonic research, when results with induced Stem Cells are bounding ahead?
Oh, I know, CIRM thinks the NIH should buy their $400 Million in bonds, this year. No one else wants the losing proposition.
The Nazis have nothing over obama and his ilk — and obama’s just getting started.
Obama likes zeros. 15 (a trillion) here, 15 there. And now for zero return on your research investment dollar: The Obama create-and-destroy-those-embryos stem cell policy!
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”Sign these 4 petitions against Sebelius & Contact the Senators:
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“ESCR: A Futuristic Idea Whose Time Has Passed.”
Embryo aged humans have no chance with the wicked man int he White HOuse. He proved he is more than willing to remove the Constitutional rights of newly born alive children in order to do demonic service to Roe v Wade. Embryos are even younger so his dead soul hasn’t a chance in Hell of recognizing their right to life.
Thanks for writing this article and posting it. Thanks also for fighting!
I guess this is what he meant by ‘bringing science back to its proper place in this country’. Eugenics, by any other name.
BTTT!
The man has no soul.
You must explain what you mean by “embryo-like.” They create and cull for “disease specific” embryos. Wait 5 to 14 days and harvest the inner cell mass where the embryonic stem cells are are busy creating all the cells in a body. A body that dies, of course.
However, my point was that there is no ban and never has been. As you say, Daley, Melton, ACT and even Houston researchers at the University of Texas Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, private funds are used to carry on embryo destruction and stem cell research. In Houston alone, well over $250 million has been donated to the IMM for stem cell research center.
The man has no business sense.
it's my understanding they are working with adult stem cells and getting them to be embryonic-like. They published back in 2007.
here's a recent article, showing they used cells from patients 4 month to 57 years old.
Am I misunderstanding their work? thanks again.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/08.21/00-stemcell.html
They adapted more quickly than Obama, but that’s not what they’ve always been doing
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2006/06/06/scientists_trying_to_clone_human_embryos/
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Thank you very much for doing this research and analysis, hocndoc. We very much need your ongoing vigilance!
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