Thursday, January 11, 2007

US House backs stem cell research



The US House of Representatives has passed a bill backing embryonic stem cell research, marking a major challenge to President George W Bush.
The stem cell bill was among the top priorities for the Democrats, who took control of Congress last week, but Mr Bush has vowed to veto it. Advocates of stem cell research say it could lead to cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Mr Bush says the research would destroy
human life in the name of science.

The Interesting thing about this is Embryonic Stem Cell research has never been illegal in the US. Federal Funding has been illegal for it.

If there were any likely possibility for the successful cure of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson's than the drug companies would be all for it, and get there own funding but the science is obviously not there. There are some other obvious difficulties with embryonic stem cells

  • Its only success created tumor cell(cancer)
  • If a cure "were" created then there are not nearly enough embryo's available
    There would be required to be a massive number of women who would have to donate eggs. Due to the complication rate and the biological effects of egg donation there are some moral issues just with that.
  • There are other options that have always looked more promising.

We can thusly conclude that there is a social/ moral agenda at work here. That is no surprise but I wish that they would be honest.

With today's strong bipartisan vote, we now challenge President Bush to join
members from both sides of the aisle in supporting the hope of stem cell
research." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

The Hope of stemm cell research is that we can live forever, there is no hope in that everyone dies. Nancy needs to learn the essentials of life. There has been plenty of stem cell research going on. The democrats and the agenda bandwagon have talke as though the only stem cell research has been Embrionic to confuse people and make them think that The President is anti-progress. I would like them to come clean on that as well.

Hope is only found in Jesus Christ.

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