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By Janet Evans
Monday, Nov 26 2007, 05:50 AM
Killing Embryos Is Unnecessary Those who advocate publicly funded embryonic stem cell research have been saying all along that it is a matter between sickness and health or life and death.
If you opposed this type of research, no matter for what grounds, whether it be for moral reasons, financial reasons, or even practical reasons, you were thought of as being heartless.
Now, everything has changed in a heartbeat since teams of scientists from Japan and our state of Wisconsin revealed they can replicate embryonic stem cells without creating and killing human embryos.
Instead, the researchers used ADULT SKIN CELLS.
Just think what this means, in so many ways!
Scientifically, medically, POLITICALLY!
This changes EVERYTHING!
Read the article here from the Washington Post ◄
"To date, adult stem cell research has produced about 70 treatments while embryonic research has yet to produce even one treatment, or even a human trial. "
"This week's announcement is a major breakthrough because it opens the gates to the vaunted potential of embryonic cells in a manner a Harvard researcher described as "ethically uncomplicated." Six years ago, President Bush made the decision to open, for the first time, the laboratory doors to federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. He determined, however, that federal funds should not be used to encourage or support the destruction of living human embryos, a principle that has been part of federal law since 1996. Funds would be made available for research derived from embryos that had already been destroyed. He placed no limits on private funding of research. The president's policy is working Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research has grown from zero dollars in 2001 to over $24.8 million now, with no cap on future funding. Most of the established U.S. scientists in this field have received funding, and shipments of stem-cell lines are going out to researchers in record numbers. More lines are available in the USA than in any other country.
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What say you now, liberals? Embryonic stem cell research NO LONGER NEEDED?
The ethical form of research is WORKING!
From SKIN CELLS!
Why ..... maybe I'm not even going to become "unglued" today....Oh, wait.... I'm sure there will still be liberals thumbing their noses at the Bush administration for refusing to fund embryonic-stem-cell research on moral grounds. And that, will make me "unglued."
So, what do you think?
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