The 'scientists' (I use the term loosely) who are agitating for federal funding to harvest new strains of embryonic stem cells are thoroughgoing liars. There are already dozens, if not hundreds of embryonic stem cell strains in unlimited quantities to utilize in any stem cell research imaginable - no reasonable justification exists for insisting on Federal funding to harvest yet more strains of embryonic stem cells, especially considering the ethical issues and the nonexistent justifications for doing so.
There is an additional dimension of dishonesty that this article perpetuates regarding the efficacy of embryonic stem cell treatments which is less than zero to date. IOW, there is no useful treatment that requires embryonic stem cells for its success and no reasonable probability of one being developed in the forseeable future, whether or not new embryonic strains are harvested or not. The disingenuousness of the embryonic stem cell harvesting advocates here is nothing short of sickening.
Contrast that to the millions of patients who have been successfully treated with their own stem cells for a variety of diseases. A person's own stem cells have the unique advantage of being compatible with his or her own tissues, an advantage that treatments based on embryonic stem cells can virtually never match.
Very good.
Post this everywhere you can, and even on your own blog.
Also, post it whenever the conversation is about Federal spending in general. Just adapt the message. I was wondering if you could send this information to the university’s local town newspapers as an opinion piece. Keep up the good work, fight the good fight.
Abortion is the final straw with God, whether it is murdering his pre-born blessings or aborting them on the alter of a false God.