Posted on 03/09/2009 9:34:35 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Nancy Reagan praises Obama Craig Gordon Craig Gordon 17 mins ago
Under fire from congressional Republicans for lifting restrictions on stem-cell research, President Barack Obama got a powerful endorsement for his move Monday from Nancy Reagan, the former’s president’s wife.
“I’m very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research,” she wrote in a statement released shortly after Obama signed an executive order lifting the Bush-era restrictions. “These new rules will now make it possible for scientists to move forward. I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them, and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers."
Nancy Reagan has been an outspoken advocate of stem-cell research – and scientists hope that the research could someday lead to cure to Alzheimer’s disease, which afflicted her husband, Ronald Reagan.
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Uhh, it was Nancy that was instrumental in Ronald Reagan leaving the Democratic Party.
So? This has zero effect on people who are agaisnt stem cell research.
I’m just as certain that President Reagan would be repulsed by this barbarism and devastated by the manner in which his wife is being used by these ghouls.
First Nancy Reagan has been consistent on this issue. Secondly stem cell research has already been going on in the private sector. And third Reagan conservatism, like every other philoophy, is NOT monolithic, subject to individual interpretation, and does have occasional divergences with its exponents.
Does that diminish Reagan conservatism or the credibility of its exponents? Not at all. Instead it reflects the reality of “It is what it is.”
“While advocates of embryonic stem cell research have invoked the name of Ronald Reagan in their crusade for taxpayer funding of the unproven research, his son says the former president would never have supported it.”
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I can not in all honesty comment on stem cell research since no one in my family has any serious health problems. But I know people who suffer from Parkinson’s, Alzeimers & Multiple sclerosis. I am sure they think SCR is wonderful. Since I am not in their shoes, my comments have no substance.
I haven’t liked Nancy Reagan since she was rude to Maureen and Michael at RR’s funeral.
Guess we forgot that the research on embryonic stem cells have proved to be useless. Adult stem cell has already proved to be much more promising and have already been used with promising results. Another 10 year old King Obama show that he is the absolute ruler. Damn that nitwit is sick.
Yada yada yada—she is stil a strange and selfish woman.
Thanks for posting a rational and thoughtful comment instead of the knee-jerk type.
The fact is that embryonic stem cell research has gone no where. It has all been a dead end. Most of the successful stem cell research has been in adult stem cell work.
Quite a few “pro-lifers” seem to change their minds when they’re sick or they get their girlfriends pregnant.
People often change their moral beliefs when someone close to them becomes ill, but to be honest, we all die, we cannot live forever (in this life as we know it).
And also let’s not forget about young, pregnant, single women of low means who are approached by stem-cell marketers with cash for their fetus. Free abortion plus $500 cash for the fetal tissue? Anyone want to bet some of these brain-dead types wouldn’t take THAT offer?
let’s face it, Nancy has always been a little batty...
Nancy was/is deeply affected by the loss of her husband...she is emotionally invested in this and the libs are USING her.
Don't blame Nancy, she's too emotionally involved and probably not up to date with the politics of this
Embryonic stem cells have not cured or successfully treated a single patient. Contrast that with the more than 70 conditions that are treatable using non-embryonic stem cell therapies.
Note: Conditions treatable using non-embryonic stem cells are listed in this article.
Adult Stem Cells: It's Not Pie-in-the-Sky
Though embryonic stem cell research advocates euphemistically refer to the current state of research as an “early stage”, the unfortunate reality is the goal of embryonic stem cell therapies is, at this point, more accurately described as a pipe dream. No researcher is anywhere close to significant progress in developing practical embryonic stem cell therapies.
The only thing certain is that the cost of that research will be high. If embryonic stem cell research had real and imminent possibilities, private investors would be pouring capital into research hoping for real and imminent profits. Instead, venture capital firms are contributing to political efforts to get taxpayers to fund research. What the venture capitalists seem to be hoping for is that taxpayer funding of stem cell research will increase the value of their stakes in biotech companies. The venture capitalists can then cash out at a hefty profit, leaving taxpayers holding the bag of fruitless research.
Ron Reagan Wrong on Stem Cells
"Using embryonic stem cells, researchers at Stanford University who are working on a cure for Type I diabetes are producing new pancreatic islet cells that could be used in human transplants and could herald a cure for this devastating illness."
Actually, the latest research findings regarding embryonic stem cells are that they do not actually produce insulin in response to glucose changes in their environment and are NOT the pancreatic beta cells needed to treat diabetes. When placed in animals, the cells did not reverse diabetes; instead, they formed tumors.
"A Korean research team recently made history by using human embryonic stem cells to cure Parkinson's disease in rats."
That is what they claim, but the research is a long way from producing a safe and effective treatment for humans. On the one known occasion when earlier-stage (before 6 weeks) fetal tissue was used to try to treat a human Parkinson's patient, the tissue killed the patient by forming clumps of bone, skin and hair in the middle of his brain.
Moreover, animal trials with embryonic stem cells repeatedly kill many of the animals because of formation of brain tumors.
Meanwhile, the first clinical trial using a patient's own adult brain stem cells to treat Parkinson's has produced a lasting 80% reversal of symptoms, and wider human trials are being planned.
A more recent article…Why Embrionic Stem Cells are Obsolete, shows nothing has changed:
A report from Israel published in PLoS Medicine in late February that shows embryonic stem cells injected into patients can cause disabling if not deadly tumors.
The report describes a young boy with a fatal neuromuscular disease called ataxia telangiectasia, who was treated with embryonic stem cells. Within four years, he developed headaches and was found to have multiple tumors in his brain and spinal cord that genetically matched the female embryos used in his therapy.His experience is neither an anomaly nor a surprise, but one feared by many scientists.
Even as the future of embryonic stem cells has dimmed, adult stem cell research has scored major wins evident just in the past few months. These advances involve human stem cells that are not derived from human embryos. In fact, adult stem cells, which occur in small quantities in organs throughout the body for natural growth and repair, have become stars despite great skepticism early on. Though this is a more difficult task, scientists have learned to coax them to mature into many cell types, like brain and heart cells, in the laboratory.
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy, Nancy . . . . Ronnie is dead, face it. A lot of us loved him, too, but Alzheimer patients are not, under the justice of God, going to be cured on the backs of murdered, innocent babies. - When the “abortion industry” - and it is an industry - can tell women that they are doing God’s work and a good deed by having abortions and supplying more “research tissue”, there will be more abortions, with women getting pregnant to purposely have an abortion in order to be praised by Hollywood for their “sacrifices”.
Damned Ungodly!
I am not, nor can I ever be, pregnant. I still know abortion is evil and wrong regardless of what some pregnant women might say.
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