Posted on 01/04/2005 2:07:57 PM PST by Coleus
Acting Gov. Richard Codey plans to propose investing $500 million in stem cell research as a key component of the State of the State speech he will deliver next week, according to two administration officials and a state lawmaker.
Codey, who has long championed stem cell research, believes the move is necessary for New Jersey to stay competitive with California, which approved a $3 billion bond issue for stem cell research last fall.
The money would help fund the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey, to be built in New Brunswick. Codey, through legislation, helped then-Gov. James E. McGreevey establish the institute as the first of its kind in the nation last year.
Assemblyman Neil Cohen (D-Union), one of the Legislature's biggest advocates of stem cell research, said he has been working closely with Codey on the initiative and confirmed the $500 million price tag. He said Codey's plan would be modeled on California's but would be "tweaked to reduce a lot of the bureaucracy that California's sets up." He also said he would push for more funding.
Stem cells, the building blocks for other human cells, can be used to rebuild damaged and diseased parts of the body. Many scientists say stem cell research also holds hope for new treatments and cures for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and a host of other ailments. But the use of stem cells taken from human embryos remains controversial because the embryos are destroyed when the cells are extracted.
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New Jersey Residents: please call, write and e-mail your two Assembly members and State Senator and tell them to oppose any ballot initiative to use bonds or taxpayer money to fund the NJ Stem Cell Institute. If you do not know the names of your two Assembly members and State Senator, you can call the Office of Legislative Services at 1-800-792-8630. You can also obtain information by going to this website.
Everyone: please call, write and e-mail acting Governor Richard J. Codey.
His biography leaves out the fact that he is Roman Catholic who is violating his faith by writing, creating, supporting and funding this legislation which fosters abortion and cloning. His sister, Patricia, is a Nun/attorney with the Sisters of Charity and is on the board of Directors of St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson. Wesley Smith, Esq. indicated that NJ's cloning law is the most barbaric since it will allow, by law, that when it's scientifically possible to grow a human clone in the womb the law will provide for it. It will be legal in New Jersey to implant cloned human embryos into wombs, gestate them for up to nine months, and then destroy them for use in research.
Many scientists say stem cell research also holds hope for new treatments and cures for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and a host of other ailments.
This information is wrong. Alzheimer's is a whole-brain organic disease which can not be treatable with stem cells of any kind, medical scientists are focusing on gene and pharmaceutical therapies. Putting primordial or primitive embryonic stem cells in human brains has caused devastated results. These cells behave like wild cancer cells which grow uncontrollably where many patients often died as a result of bone, skin and hair growing in their substantia nigra rather than brain cells making L-Dopa. Cancer has been treated effectively for 30 years using adult (effective and ethical) stem cell use and heart and diabetes research has also been effective with adult (effective and ethical) stem cell use without harvesting babies for their body parts. These embryos are obtained from the leftovers of "Fertility Clinics" which use In-vitro fertilization therapies.
Topic spamming is a no-no.
NJ, Major Pro-Life, Anti Stem Cell/Cloning Freep, Sat. April 24, 2004, at Marriott Newark Airport
NJ Governor Dick Codey supports death penalty moratorium during new study, 100% Pro Abortion
NJ Senate Votes to Harvest Babies for body parts (My Title)
Freep NJ Sen. Pres. Codey--Wants to Use Embryonic Stem Cells
Well his wife wanted to put their baby in the microwave so this fits right in with their psycho thinking.
WHAT???
Mary Jo Codey, the wife of Gov. Richard Codey, told WNBC-TV she suffered from post-partum depression 20 years ago after the birth of her first son Kevin.
She said she felt what she termed "scary thoughts" about the child.
Once, while giving Kevin a bath, she said she remembered thinking, "Why don't you drown him? It would only take a minute," Codey said in the interview screened last night.
Codey decided to check herself into a mental hospital after telling her husband, "I had a scary thought about putting the baby in my microwave."
She believed she would spend the rest of her life in the hospital, but since her release, she and her husband have both been advocates for the mentally ill.
His wife has announced to the world that she suffers from mental illness and considered putting her baby in the microwave.
How ironic the fundraising pic on this thread is that which contrasts Kerry with the "Pro-Life" President (who nailed open the door of Non-Personhood by which NO such program need worry about "human" experimentation protocols).
Big Lie intact.
bump!
I knew he would show his true colors soon enough.
That actually sounds more like postpardum psychosis. That is a little more extreme than postpartum depression.
Bump!
New Jersey, together with California and a handful of other extremists bastions of evil, concerning respect for human life, is currently leading the march toward Nazification of the U.S.
The illegitimate regime of the disgraced and dysfunctional Jim McGreevey has been propagated without care for the will of the people.
As I have oft remarked, In 2000 the Democrats told us "NJ Desereves a choice" . Well many of us would like to know why that no longer applies when one of their office holders is forced out of office by his own homosexual affair, not to mention the appointment of his gay lover to an office of trust within the state. Ladies and Gentlemen, we in NJ are still living under the McGreevey Administration. That anyone would think it otherwise is a grand testament to the stupidity which the democrats are convinced possesses us all.
No human life is respected by a government which sees no problem with rewarding individuals with high offices of trust, a trust for the lives of our children, for sexual favors. Why then should it be a problem with the democratic mindset to sacrifice the lives of 'insignificant' babies.
This government is leading the nation dangerously toward Hitler's model of eliminating 'useless eaters'. This process is being enacted here exavctly as it was in Nazi Germany during the Third Rheich. It begins with the infants, then the extremely aged then the daft and infirm and finally any persons which as Gilbert and Sullivan satirized, "could well be underground and who never would be missed".
If you feel that you will fare okay in this society which the liberal sectors offer us, then consider their maxim which has of late in the U.S. public school system replaced the ten commandments as the governing principle upon which our children are taught to live; "Survival of the fittest"
If you imagine yourself at peace and ease in a future devoid of moralities other than survival of the fittest, then look downward at your body and ask yourself how fit you are.
This discussion is paramount to the very maintaining of society and civilization as we know it.
Please do not make the mistake of thinking that this is about medical research or helping the ill, it is not. This is about one thing and one thing only; the issue of whether a government has the authority to legislate what is and is not a viable lifeform or one worth living (or tolerating).
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