Posted on 03/25/2009 11:20:18 AM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- During his national press conference last night, President Barack Obama claimed to be supportive of ethical alternatives to using embryonic stem cells, namely adult stem cell research. However, he recently issued an executive order to rescind research into more ethical alternatives.
Reporter Jon Ward of the Washington Times pointed out to Obama that "science so far has shown a lot of progress with adult stem cells but not a lot with embryonic."
"I am glad to see progress is being made in adult stem cells. And if the science determines that we can completely avoid a set of ethical questions or political disputes, then that’s great," Obama said.
"I have -- I have no investment in causing controversy. I'm happy to avoid it if that’s where the science leads us," Obama added.
"But what I don't want to do is predetermine this based on a very rigid ideological approach. And that’s what I think is reflected in the executive order that I signed," Obama continued.
However, Obama only referred to his executive order requiring taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research -- and did not refer to his second executive order that would stop research into ethical alternatives.
Obama rescinded an executive order President Bush put into place funding adult stem cells and new research with iPS cells. The Bush order was intended to ultimately fund research into alternatives" to destructive embryonic stem cell research such as altered nuclear transfer (ANT), "regression" (reverting differentiated cells into stem cells), and other methods.
Wesley J. Smith, a bioethics author and attorney, noted the contradiction in Obama saying he backs embryonic stem cell research alternatives and his overturning an order to fund that.
"Then why rescind the 2007 Bush order requiring that the Feds fund research into non controversial 'alternative' methods," Smith asks. That is "the very kind of policy geared toward bridging our bitter cultural and political divides, a matter he has now twice kept quite mum about--here and in his stem cell speech."
Smith says using a rigid ideological approach to the science is "what he did" when it came to his executive order to stop adult stem cell research.
"But that is what he did, base his order on a very rigid ideological approach that views nascent human life is so much chopped liver," Smith says. "Indeed, as far as I can tell, he took federal funding just as far as the law allows."
"Alternative methods are one of the few areas in which we can all row in the same direction, which I thought this president wanted to do," Smith added. "So much for taking the politics out of science."
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I’ll bet he also claims Larry Sinclair is a nut.
You were expecting him to read what he signs???
I think someone (perhaps, his teleprompter....uh, I mean, big TV screen) is telling him what to sign.
I would like to know why are there so many embryos available in the first place?
zero is a pathological liar.
SSDD. Say one thing and do the exact opposite.
One
Big
Ass
Mistake
America
***”I have — I have no investment in causing controversy. I’m happy to avoid it if that’s where the science leads us,” Obama added.***
Typical meaningless statement.
ALL BABBLE, NO BROOK!
To be a pathological liar you need to actually know what the truth is, Zero is just a clueless puppet dangling on someone's string.
What I want to know is the identity of the puppetmaster.
The EMBRYONIC stem cell issue is wholly about
making sure that the unborn have no human value
imputed to them in the law.
Yes, it is about abortion - it’s about keeping “Had-Aborts” consciences from bothering them.
In order to increase the probability of a pregnancy that takes a large number of eggs are harvested, fertilized, and implanted.
They may have to do the procedure several times, so they have a large number cryogenically stored. If it takes the first time and the parent(s) end up with all the kids they want, you end up with stored frozen embryos.
One of many lies that I caught last night... only one of scores of lies.
LLS
Ultimately that is true, but I would like to know who the actual Doctor Faust is.
So do the procedure each time you need embryos. I Still don’t understand the need to have a bunch of extras. Create
those you need not a bunch of spares.
Interesting article here...http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090325/hl_nm/us_reproduction_embryos_3
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