President Obama to Sign Executive Order on Stem Cell Research Monday

Great! Do you know how many people this will help? And those stem cells will be destroyed regardless.
He is doing the things he said he would do in his campaign. Finally an intelligent honest president.

The moratorium on science has been lifted.

About time!!!Hey Joe Taxpayer, how long would the Manhatten Project have taken with only private money. This is a scientific endeavor that is equal in scale and importance and deserves as much support as we can give it. If GW Bush had fully supported this, I might be typing with regrown fingers instead of pecking out sentences with my “thumbstumps”. Hooray for science!!

I guess the liberals will be happy. More federal dollars going to kill babies.
Posted by: Concerned in OH | Mar 6, 2009 3:59:56 PM
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Call it what you may but please note that conservatives are so interested in the first nine months after conception but after then they are on their own. The heck with the babies after they are born. right???

Concerned In Ohio
Do you Think Everything Bush did Was good?

Ommentum – Read the article on this website titled: Parents’ Hospital Lawsuit Says Teen Was ‘Killed’ For Organs.
This is exactly the kind of thing we’ll be seeing with this, or how about women getting intentionally pregnant so their embryos can be harvested?
I agree with Joe, tax payer money should not be used for highly controversial and morally-charged issues.

I am glad to see this!! Finally a wonderful president that makes sense.

finally, after 8 wasted years,many
diseases will respond to this.
Obama has a winning list of things
to do yet.
kinda like the dawn coming after
a dark night.

Joe the taxpayer,
Is ex-president Ronald Regan a communist? He began the funding for this area of research in the 80s. Perhaps you should really see what communism is before you go accusing. You obviously don’t know what communism, and i would assume capitalism by default, is. Concerned in OH, if you consider these cells babies, then you are killing thousands of babies a day when you sluff off your skin cells (yes, we can now make those into babies as well). Its time everyone began to care about the LIVING!

Stem cells are not babies. They could potentially become babies. Most stem cells will never become babies. He is not killing babies!!!

This is great news. To all you that think embryonic stem cells mean killing a baby you are wrong. Look at Advanced Cell Technologies (ACTC) who have a method to harvest embryonic stem cells without any harm to the embryo at all. You pro-lifers have no leg to stand on with this issue, your arguments are false. Here’s hoping to America regaining the lead in this vital field.

But wait. Won’t this make Jesus mad?

Maybe now the US can once again be at the forefront of modern medicine, instead of rolling backwards as we have for the last 8 years. G’job, Bam!

At last, and administration that does not reject science when it doesn’t fit into its pseudo-moralistic and politically inconvenient agenda. We’ve finally moved back into the modern world. Ladies, you can now put away your dresses and pearls to do housework…

Remember Hypocrite # 1 Ronald reagan who opposed funding for AIDS research until his friend Rock hudson contracted it, then opposed gun control until he himself got shot? Well, he too opposed stem cell research until he got Alzheimer’s. President Obama is, once again, taking the intelligent, modern, ethical, informed and reasoned approach – words which after 8 years under rule of the only President who, in addition to being a hypocrite, traitor, and liar, was a convicted criminal, are refreshing and inspiring.

I think Jesus might have made a better scientist than George Bush and would have been opposed to a ban on embryonic stem cell research.

CHANGE is just that, both parties wasting more time reversing each others rulings and laws, then there’s the politicking! They really don’t accomplish anything new.

meisg, who cares about the teleprompter? This is about stem cells and the future of medicine, try somewhere else. For relevancy, here’s a list of stem cell companies that the readers may wish to examine, in no particular order, and not all involved in embryonic, some are in storage, some are in adult stems: ACTC, SCLL, GERN, CBAI, BTIM, ATHX, STEM, ASTM, MCET.

“Call it what you may but please note that conservatives are so interested in the first nine months after conception but after then they are on their own”
Exactly.
Anyone here can take a gander at the old SCHIP thread and see that demonstrated.

GoBama GoBama GoBama! It feels so good to step back into the 21st Century! and Join the rest of the World developing New Cures for so many that are suffering! Bush and his Republican Stone Age Views have no place in Modern Times! They’re as primitive as Al-Quidas!

It is great to see rational thinking return to government. Eight years of religious meddling has greatly interfered in medical progress. Keep your religious propaganda to yourselves. The next time you eat an egg, you just killed another chicken.

It should have happened at least eight years ago, but I guess we all know why it didn’t.

Thank you Mr. President!

Taxpayer: “While Barack Obama wants to raise taxes on everyone else, he has gone to great lengths to generate TAX-FREE INCOME for himself.
Obama has accounts with Morgan Chase Private Client Asset Management, a firm that deals only with wealthy clients. Much of his income is invested in the Northern Municipal Money Market Fund, a fund that yields TAX-FREE INCOME.
I don’t blame anyone for trying to lower his tax liability, but I find it hypocritical for Obama to tell the nation it’s time for the rich to “do the right thing” and pay up, while trying to avoid paying taxes himself.
I’m certainly not rich, and I’m glad the tax cuts for the wealthy will lapse, but I still find his position hypocritical. As president, shouldn’t he be a role model and pay taxes on every dime he earns? That’s certainly what he expects from everyone else.”
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According to VP Biden, this is very un-patriotic!!!!!

Here’s a list of stem cell companies that the readers may wish to examine, in no particular order, and not all involved in embryonic, some are in storage, some are in adult stems: ACTC, SCLL, GERN, CBAI, BTIM, ATHX, STEM, ASTM, MCET.

Thank goodness our recent version of the dark ages is over and we can join the modern world again. Good for Obama!!! Much good can come of this for many people.

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StemEnhance is a revolutionary breakthrough, all natural product that supports adult stem cell physiology. It’s the first patented product on the market in the latest phytoceutical category called “Stem Cell Enhancers”.
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Officials at StemTech Health Sciences were aiming for Stem Enhance sales of $100,000 in the first month. Which was a hearty goal in itself. Imagine their astonishment when the 1st month’s sales totaled over $1,000,000 and it just keeps rising.

I pray for America and our new president. Good things are beginning to happen now that common sense and intelligence have been restored in the white house.

Up to now, no human being has ever been cured of a disease using embryonic stem cells. Adult stem cells, on the other hand, have already cured thousands. Research using adult cells is 20-30 years ahead of embryonic stem cells & holds greater promise. Stem cells are part of the natural repair mechanisms of an adult body while embryonic stem cells do not belong in an adult body where they are likely to form tumors & be rejected as foreign tissue of the recipient. This is wasting tax payer dollars on unproven technology; Something BHO has “said” he opposes.

I am one of the ones that has high hopes for embryonic stem cell research.
After a bad auto accident in 2002 I have been unable to work, lost my very nice house I had worked hard for, but more importantly, I am in very severe pain 24 hours a day. I am on the strongest opiates around, including Fentanyl (much stronger than morphine). I am hoping this research will help me and others with severe neurological pain by repairing nerve cells at the site of the nerve damage. One day just to walk more than a few steps, one night to sleep through would be the greatest blessing. Hundreds of thousands are like me, waiting for the miracles that stem cell research will make possible. Things never before possible without this research. So many already born without hope without stem cell research are rejoicing knowing that there IS still hope. Thank you, President Obama, for that hope.

You’re not taking anything back in 2012. The Republican Party is on life support thanks to 8 years of your Dumb President and his Free Market Zero Regulation Policies! If you’re putting your hopes on Obama failing like Rush Limblah! and thinking that Palin the Alaskin Bimbo and Joe the fake Plumber will beat Obama in 2012 you’re all in some deep delusional post election daze.. Obama and the US will not Fail no matter how much you Evil Sore Losers hope otherwise!

we should be a decade ahead of schedule but better late then never

Joe, The Tax Payer..”what is wrong with this country” is that we have brain-dead, self-righteous, egos, aka democrats in charge at the moment but there will come a day when even the ones who voted for obama and buddies, will find they have been duped. Well, some of them will, the others are getting what they have wanted all along. A great big handout at the real taxpayers expense, as usual! Remember, they don’t want to work, think for themselves or take responsibility and that fits in so very nicely with what the demos need to continue to be voted in!

“Restoring scientific integrity to health care policy”…what about restoring moral integrity to health care policy?

Some of the blogs on here from Republicans border on lunacy to the point where medication is needed. There IS a world outside of your tiny hostile little conservative reality; a world of optimism and hope, even after the past eight years. I’m sorry you folks are so angry. Try to channel it into something productive.

Get over yourself people. This is another great thing that Obama is doing for the country. IF McCain became President the country would never come out of recession. Bush messed up this country. And now Obama is here to fix it. US is suppose to be the greatest country in the world, but it’s not. Corporate Fraud, Bans on useless intelligence, and Banking failures. If you go look at our friends up North there economy is in great shape. They have better regulations for there Banks, and there Banks haven’t failed yet. Do you see foreclosures in Canada ? NO! We need to change our rules and how we do business in this country. We need universal Health Care like Canada, We need Banking Rules like Canada, we need what Canada has!
Obama make this happen

This is good news, now let’s overturn all the other bad ideas that Bush did, like all the bad environmental decisions he made. And when will the Hague indict Chaney!

For those who simply criticize blindly, it was free market capitalism with little government regulation that built this country and made us prosperous. I’ll bet not half of you could explain what you mean by deregulation, which aspect of it to which you refer, who caused it and what the effect was.

Do you people who are complaining about stem-cell research even understand what you are complaining about? Or are you just listening to the talking heads on Fox who are only concerned about stirring up the “ignorant masses”? Because I assure you that’s what your elected leaders think about us. Do some independent research (novel idea) and learn for yourself. It’s lazy to have your opinions spoon-fed to you.

Another misleading ABC headline. There has never been a ban on federal funding of research on stem cells, only a ban on federal funding of research on embryonic stem cells. But with so many news organizations falling all over themselves to applaude the President’s every move, we certainly can’t expect the truth from them anymore. There have been many promising treatments/approaches to come out of stem cell research but not yet from the use of embryonic stem cells. Its only that some scientists “think” they will have better results with them, so far totally unproven by the research. I am deeply disturbed by the thought that we are condoning experimenting with cells that were not donated freely but taken from those who had no voice and no choice in the matter. And for those who think I would feel differently if my family or myself could be helped by this unconsionable research, you are wrong. I come from a family where every one of my living older relatives has been diagnosed with some form of dementia and most of those deceased have died from Alzheimers. I fully anticipate that my time will come as well and though I do not relish the loss of my mind and my history and the anguish my family will go through, I am not–we are not–willing to condone the use of cells from those whose lives were taken without their consent to better mine. And just as I have always found it interesting that some claim to be pro-life and yet support the death penalty (for the record I am pro-life and against the death penalty), I have never been able to understand that so many who are rightly concerned about the brutal experimentation done on helpless animals for scientific research somehow seem able to justify the killing of the unborn and the use of their body parts without concern.

Bush Stopped Stem Cell Research,
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No

Ever wonder why pursuing this is so important to the baby killers-and other Godless people-when there has been no discovery or cure, not one, that came from research utilizing EMBRYONIC stem cells. The most promising research has come from adult stem cells. The U.S. government did not ban the use of EMBRYONIC stem cell research…just the use of taxpayer dollars to fund it. Clooney, Fox, Penn, Oprah, Obama, O’Donnell can fund embryonic stem cell research with their donations. Now, they won’t have too. How convenient.

Human embryonic stem cells (hESC) are thought to possibly potential cures and therapies for many devastating diseases, research using them is still in its early stages. So far, no diseases have been cured using hESC’s and it is only a theory that they might.
From the National Institute of Health website:
Adult stem cells, such as blood-forming stem cells in bone marrow (called hematopoietic stem cells, or HSCs), are currently the only type of stem cell commonly used to treat human diseases. Doctors have been transferring HSCs in bone marrow transplants for over 40 years. More advanced techniques of collecting, or “harvesting,” HSCs are now used in order to treat leukemia, lymphoma and several inherited blood disorders.
The clinical potential of adult stem cells has also been demonstrated in the treatment of other human diseases that include diabetes and advanced kidney cancer. However, these newer uses have involved studies with a very limited number of patients.
Promoting the use of hESC’s is the liberal’s way of justifying abortion. Plain and simple.

Earth was created 5000 years ago! and they existed side by side with us? per Sarah Palin! Oh, Lord we came awfully close to having our country run by another Republican Big Business Hand Puppet!

Ryan C- you just think you know it all!! Google is your friend! Just recently an Isaeli boy suffering from cancer was treated with embryonic stem cells, guess what Mr. Know it ALL, the stem cells triggered more tumors! Can you think why that would be? I mean you really don’t need a medical degree to figure it out……Embryonic stem cells are immature, they are meant to grow and multiply, therefore setting off a chain reaction. This is not the first time this has happened either. There has NEVER been a positive impact on any disease using embryonic stem cells, they are too unpredictable. There has been MANY great advances using ADULT stem cells.

May the president hear the cries of all those unborn babies for the next four years. Why are they crying? Because they came so close to having what we all value so much. Life. Lets “salvage” it by spreading their non-sacred remains, down to the cells, in a hundred different directions. We can all feel good about that, right?

How appropriate that President Obama will be signing this bill on Monday, March 9. That day would have been my beloved husband’s birthday. He was able to survive 12 years with non-Hodgkins lymphoma because stem cell transplantation was available–he had two such procedures. For all you who think stem cell research is the devil’s tool, just wait until cancer, or some other dreadful disease strikes your family. All stem cell research must continue. Bravo Mr. President. My husband would have been so proud of you.

And, add heavy doses of ridicule and derision. Got it.

Ok look anyone who cannot diff between an individual making fiscal mistakes and making a good choice to help save lives and cure disease WITHOUT KILLING BABIES(research before you speak) clearly is the real reason this country has troubles:LACK OF CRITICAL THOUGHT. And I voted for McCain! Obama is a moron and terrible president, but this is probably the only ace card he has to play, glad he didn’t wait to throw it.

Wow, lots of misinformation on here, mostly from people that get their science ‘facts’ from biased web pages and pulpit prognosticators. FACT: stem cells are not even remotely related to abortion. That’s an argument by pro-lifers that has no basis in fact. If it was true, there are still ways around that, as it is quite possible and proven to harvest embryonic stem cells without any harm to the embryo. Look up ACTC (Advanced Cell Technologies). Further, just as I would not get legal advice from a scientist, I suggest you all don’t get your science advice from bloggers and preachers. There have been successes for embyronic stem cells, adult stem cells, and cord blood stem cells. All it takes is a 10 second google search to see them. Quit lying and repeating half truths to promote your outdated agendas!

About Time. The Possibilities to save lives. Thanks, Mr. President.

Chuck S, there are that believe political thought is circular. The farther from the center/moderation both sides become the closer to each other they are. Fascism and socialism/communism begin to mirror and overlap each other.

It never cease to amaze me that these confused fake a..Republicans tries to have it both ways. Pro-life=but no medical (SCHIP), Pro-life=cripple and diseased without hope. Pro-life=homelessness. Pro-life=control your body. Who are these people talking to! Must be the other FAKES.

How quickly you forget Obama supported the war!
Posted by: pro-American anti Obama ——-
When, Where and How? He wasn’t in the Senate at the time and it’s been clearly documented from the beginning of the war in IL state senate records that he was agaisnt it. Even though there was no voting on the war at the state level. I know… I lived in IL at the time and voted for him as my senator both in the state and federal levels.

Obama continues to fulfil his promises to the “anti-life” wing of the Democratic Party – first, monies for abortion internationally, second, rescinding the protection of conscience for healthcare workers, now the abortion mills will become a supply chain for dubious scientific research. To my fellow Catholics who voted for this monster – congratulations, you idiots.

No 2+ 2 doesn’t = 3 But if you voted for Obama I guess zero plus zero equals
TWO TRILLION DOLLARS $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Posted by: fredfreid | Mar 6, 2009 5:12:13 PM
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and who said we don’t need education reform?

And we wonder what is wrong with this country. When you have a president that has no morals whatsoever and mocks God it will never work. The Bible strictly says “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God.” Well, stem cell research is wrong, flat out worng and all of you will see this in the days to come.

No 2+ 2 doesn’t = 3 But if you voted for Obama I guess zero plus zero equals
TWO TRILLION DOLLARS $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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That’s still less than Bush spent. The difference is that Bush spent it on things that wouldn’t generate a return. I don’t care how conservitive you are. If you spend without a return…you go broke. Investing in Education, Science, Green Energy… Those are all investments in our people. It might take 20 years to see the return…but there will be a return none the less.

Americanpie posted….”Who cares anymore. This inept jerk we have pretending to be a president will do whatever he wants. The only thing he knows is spending money. He has no plan, no strategy and no idea what the outcome will be. Is he using a dartboard for this stuff? Oh yeah, he’s also a liar,a fool and maybe a communist. I’m ready for a second revolution.” ———— Last time I checked he was actually elected unlike Bush. So how is this pretending?

“…tax payer money should not be used for highly controversial and morally-charged issues.”~getagrip
These issues are only controversial and “morally-charged” to those who are against it. That said, why should we put scientific advancement on hold just to appease your primitive sensibilities?

“In the meantime, though, this story does what it was intended to do: get the media talking about something other than the Dow and the economy.”
This has to be the dumbest and most hypocritical talking point birthed by the right wing.
You guys are the party of Terry Schiavo and the War on Christmas.
The economy is front and center when it comes to news coverage and with the job losses we have encountered it should be.
3 of Jake’s last 5 article are on the economy but where are most of the wingnuts? On this thread.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. For myself and so many more with severe uncurable autoimmune diseases, I say bless you Obama for having the bravery to stand up for us and the future of medicine. Hopefully, the cures can be found now.

Omentum: No I do not speak for God. I just know and understand what the Bible says and if I were you, I would be very careful. We have elected a president that probably does not believe in anything – you way waht you want – I am not a preacher, but I read the Bible, do you? So until you do, you can stop saying wahtever because you are wasting your time. And God says “suffer the little children to come unto me” not in steam cell research. I would be for anything that is reasonable, but this is just another attempt to get at Bush AND YES BUSH KEPT US SAFE.

Jimmy D.
“why should we put scientific advancement on hold just to appease your primitive sensibilities”
No, why should we use the oldest argument known :
The End Justifies the Means

Well … even Americans seem to be able to put superstitious taboos aside after a while. Well done.

I am so glad conservatives are ignorant.
They are just wrapping up the 2012 so nicely and with a big blue bow on top.
Thanks guys. You are the gift that keeps on giving.

“AND YES BUSH KEPT US SAFE.”
Except for 9/11 and the Anthrax killer.
Also those Americans who were killed in the attacks in Bali, Madrid, and London.
Oh and don’t forget the 4000 American soldiers that were killed after Bush told the terrorist to bring it on.
Thise are just American who lost their lives.
Bush has also watched North Korea get nukes and eliminated the primary counterbalance in the MidEast to Iran by destroying Iraq.
BTW, when are we getting to Mars?
Anyone remember that humdinger of a distraction offered up by Bush?

wonder if Rush is going to start trashing Michael J. Fox again.
Conservatives…. That’s your leader. Bow to your king Rush.

Excellent news! Finally – under the Obama administration – science doesn’t have to take a back seat to the superstitious religious beliefs of the ignorant and uneducated. What a refreshing change!

Why don’t this idiot just resend all of Bush’s work and be done with it. We can save a lot of trees if he would take time to do this !!!! Oh wait a minute,he will need to wait until Carvel and Emanuel decides if that what they want him to do????
WHAT AN IDIOT !!!!!!!!!

It’s notable to see how upset the Liberals get when a terrorist gets some water poured over his face that makes him uncomfortable……. but Liberals no problem intentionally killing a human being at the very initiation of it’s life……..

Freddyfreid said…” And…I am putting myself in the shoes so to speak. I would never knowingly take a treatment course derived directly from such a technique!”—————
Until you are on your death bed. Stop using any and all medicine because all medicines have come from science and research. Because you don’t believe in helong your fellow man or yourself for that matter….just roll up and let God take care of your next flu outbreak… You really brainwashed by your religion.

vet1973…Very well said!

Correction Like a milkmaid.
So, go ahead have at it. You are welcome to your opinion. I feel this is a very poor choice for Obama; he seems to think he is doing good? Not sure what drives him but whatever it is I hope we never see another president like him.
Bye

Omentum I did not say adults have a choice to abort an innocent life. What I said was adults have the choice to donate their cells..there is a big difference. I for on value human life and think we need to protect those who cannot speak for themselves. Embryos do not have that voice.

“Here’s another statistic for you… 100 people praying for someone dying isn’t nearly as effectinve as one Athiest donating blood to keep him alive. ”
But can you prove that? LOL You lose as usual!
A professor and a cleric were looking at a car and the professor said to the other who made that car? The cleric answered “nonone it was created by a big bang”

“The whole time they were here training and getting ready under the Clinton administration!”
Aug 6th 2001 Memo – Bin Laden Determined to Strike US.
Were any precautions taken at all?
Nope.
Bush had shrubs to clear in Crawford, he was too busy.

“Liberals get soooo upset when they use animals to test drugs….. but the they are perfectly OK with killing human life for “research” hummmmmmm”——–
No…Liberals get upset when supposedley intelegent people are incapable of understanding basic logic. Sankes can’t talk. People can’t live in the belly of whale/fish depending on which verse you read… If the entire Earth had been flooded to the point where the highest mountains were coverd… The amount of water on this planet would had to have increased 10 fold in a few days and the desalinization of the oceans from all that fresh water would have killed all marine life. It would have killed the planet. You people are quick to sentance people to death based on evidence yet completely ignore all the evidence contradicting the Bible… Do you not see the hypocrasy in your arguements?

couldn’t agree more with Chuck S! thank you…
is it really my fault that a drunk driver 4 years ago crashed into me PARALYZING ME FROM THE CHEST DOWN!?!?!!! or is it god’s fault and this is his plan for me and my family???? i’m a 24 year-old dashed of my dreams…. and i bet one doesn’t have the slightest idea what my family and I have to go through on a daily basis.
thank you PRES. OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Conservatives
Stop throwing tantrums.
Save your breath.
Pick your battles.
Move a long now.
America has spoken.
Obama has answered.

Guess this shows BO has no respect for innocent life….. and he going to FORCE Americans who disagree with him to pay for it… Politics are more important…..

Chuck s, you have no idea what socialism is.

You said
“Liberals get soooo upset when they use animals to test drugs….. but the they are perfectly OK with killing human life for “research” hummmmmmm”
You are Too assuming! As if? I’ll Pass! Not worth the time.

can anyone answer my question since u all have so much insight on this topic???
is it really my fault that a drunk driver 4 years ago crashed into me PARALYZING ME FROM THE CHEST DOWN!?!?!!! or is it god’s fault and this is his plan for me and my family???? i’m a 24 year-old dashed of my dreams…. and i bet one doesn’t have the slightest idea what my family and I have to go through on a daily basis.

My money is on the Hughes Institute. Private research, no restrictions, plenty of money.
We are not, nor were we ever dependent on the government for stem cell research.
First one with the patent wins, you think those guys been sitting around waiting for government money?

Ryan please explain to me what socialism is then…. Here’s my definition.
a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
That definintion tells me that the people own the responsibility to take care of their neighbors… And by neighbors I mean everyone in the country…not jsut the people down the street. Because by helping people everywhere….it helps me in the future. If my taxes can pay for an inner city kid to go to college…my country is better off because of it. If my taxes can save your life with a better health care system…then I’m all for it. Why should I have to choose if I can afford a procedure that could help me. Why should I have to decide whether or not I have enough vaction time to have a hernia sergery or face loosing pay from my job. Why should I have to decide if I can afford to have my teeth cleaned…

I find it amazing all this hupla over Bush withholding federal money for stem cell research. Do rational people think for one moment that if this were such a panacea for cures that private money would not have been pouring into this? The ban was not on the research but the federal money.

Correction Fetal cell research specifically.
Just a load of crapola. Sorry to say but it is like your mom told you when you were a puppy if it sounds too good (like Obama) it probably is a load of crap.

You Said
“Oh and by the way …… Hope all of you on the left like to pay taxes! Have fun now.”
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what socialism:
Obama owns a cow and allows you to look at it but don’t touch!

Here’s a list of stem cell companies that the readers may wish to examine, in no particular order, and not all involved in embryonic, some are in storage, some are in adult stems: ACTC, SCLL, GERN, CBAI, BTIM, ATHX, STEM, ASTM, MCET.

Are we supposed to be surprised? I would say this is a slippery slope, but he’s already admitted it’s OK to kill babies when they’re born “temporarily” alive (his SCARY words not mine from 2004 IL state senate hearing). Before you go off on me as “narrow-minded” please check your references on why using stem cells is the same experiments the Nazi’s did in WWII. If you study any scientific journal on an amoeba, or a cancer cell , or the AIDS virus for instance, life begins when the first new cell is alive. Not after it has brain waves or a heart beat. (My brother-in-law had cancer. He’d be glad to tell you about it.) SCeince already knows it. Why is it SO difficult to admit than that a stem cell is a potential human being? But as stated before since he’s already in favor of killing unwanted babies outside the womb, this is a piece of cake.

looking foward to ur response! bye for now and once again thank you PRES. OBAMA for restoring hope in me.
:-)

Good decision. Stem cell research has the potential to help millions of people. I’m glad that Obama does not feel the need to pander to the religious right taliban and their backwards thinking but instead enacts policies like this that make sense.

What kind of summits will BO have next week?
Do they serve a purpose other than photo-ops and BO getting a thrill from all the kissing up?
Narcissist need constant adoration.

Thank you Mr.Obama&Us will succeed. Your comment on Sarah Palin,Joe the fake plumber,Rush the GOP boss, and GOP hopes for 2012 was on time.They will see dust in 2012. You left out Hannity and O’reilly. They keep claiming that Obama is re-distributing the wealth.LIES, LIES,LIES. President Obama is returning America tax system to the Clinton times, when the economy boomed. Before we put a fool in the white house. Were we communists then? Were we socialists then? Mr. O’reilly, Hannity, Rush, you can only lie to other fools like yourselves. Please be honest. You guys are more opposed to the Man’s color more than his ideals. Your venom filled tongues and facial expressions give you away.

Hey Right To “Life” people as you call youselves – although your respect for life ends soon after the fetus becomes a child – given you attitudes on social justice issues.
Stem cell research involves a few frozen cells on a petri dish that are going to be flushed down a drain anyway.
If I destory a seed that may beome a Redwood tree have I destroyed a 100 foor redwood? I do not think so.

what took him so long? Thank God that we finally have someone back in the White House that actually cares about human life.

Its about time this has happened. Good will come from it.

Finally. One more step to remove the insidious attempts of the Bush Administration to force the United States into a “Christian Nation”.
Science is bad…Deregulate the FDA and the EPA…Don’t teach evolution…Fund abstinence only programs, but don’t discuss birth control…Pray to God to justify going to war…and scare people into believing stem cell research “aids the destruction of innocent human life”.
The reason our forefathers believed in strict separation of church and state was to protect our own rights to be free of government-imposed dogma.

I’m all for stem cell research, but Obama needs to spend more of his time at this particular time, on the economy to getg the country going in the right direction. He has too many irons in the fire to do a good job on any of them. His reform health-care initiative, can wait a couple months, too. Lets get the country going again and then these other things that are also important.
I get dizzy watching his speeches everyday on somerthing else he has going,

I am so glad I voted for Pres.Obama. It is awesome having a Pres. that will lead us into the future and is not stuck in the past.

Me and my diabetic son thank you President Obama. Please continue to do the right thing. It has been so long.

Thank you Pres Obama!
“The question is whether taxpayer dollars should be used to subsidize the destruction of precious human life.” John Boehner, R-Ohio. That’s rich from the pro-war, pro-pollution GOP.

yup, good idea.

robert b | Mar 6, 2009 6:58:54 PM posted “Science” and whatever elite controls it, controls our future.”
Well of course the United States needs to lock in strong ethics rules for how embryonic stem cell research should be done. Many believe there should also be more government regulations on Fertilization clinics and baby outsourcing too.
Pandering to the Religious Right by restricting stem cell research will not keep the Genie in the Bottle – like you say, this technology and the attached ethical dilemmas are already developing around the world. Attempting to stop technological change will not stop the slippery slope.

Alli-how sad we finally have someone in the white house who cares about human life by using life of a fertilized egg for research….this is about making money. Do you know about FOCA when Obama said he would sign this freedom of choice act legalizing. with no questions asked, aborting a baby up to nine months. Separation of church and state means that no specific church would run the country. Our forefathers built this country with God in all that they did. Since we are taking Him out of our undertakings we are going down hill fast.

Bush did not band stem cell research of any kind. His policy was merely restricting the use of government funds to do it. Actually more money was spent on it during his tenure than ever before. A BS issue.

I’m all for pandering to the religious right. What’s wrong with that? I’m also for Panda bears. You people have a problem with Christianity?

i think that it will be up to the doctors and the patients as to whether this will be a good idea or not. It’s too early to judge one way or the other, but I pray that there will be some ethics and morals in place here when they do this.

SweatPea posted “Human embryonic stem cells (hESC) are thought to possibly lead to potential cures… they have not cured anything to this point.” This is so correct SweatPea. Our scientists have changed the world in many ways, but they haven’t advanced stem cell research for many years. MAYBE BUSH’S BAN HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THAT !

Its about time. We just need to step back and let the scientific community do its job.

Can someone check and see if there is
some stem cell research that could help
the brains of those idiots running the
show in Washington and Wall Street?

IheartScience Science has nothing to do with it, I believe in God and his creation, an embyro is life.

Scientific integrity? There isn’t any. Bush banned federal money flowing to a line of research that lacks scientific merit for a dang good reason: because it is a PROVEN FAILURE. They can produce out-of-control tumors. They can stick some embryonic stem cells into the brain tissue of Parkinson’s patients and watch in horror as the poor people flail like they’ve been hit with a grand mal seizure. But only adult stem cells and their derivitives, the ones that need no federal funding because they have scientific medit, have treated illnesses-such as diabetes and paralysis. There is no way that the Obama Administration isn’t aware of this and so, they know that they’re giving away taxpayer money to a line of research with no proven merit to win political points with people who are ignorant of that fact (or choose to ignore it).

You can state over and over and over again, that this type of stem cell research has nothing at all to do with babies, killing babies, throwing babies away, *nothing* to do with harming babies at all. But Pro-lifers just wont listen to the facts. They refuse to think and only “feel” – If they keep screaming “dead little babies!” they think the uninformed will perk up and listen. It’s a shame to have to outright lie to try and get your way.

Never have I seen a party in so much disarray.
Yes we Can
Yes we Can
Equal pay – done
Bailout pkg – passed
Budget – will pass easy
Troops- timeline set
Health care – will pass easy
stem cell research – done
has your head stopped spinning yet
This President is awesome!!!

Never have I seen a party in so much disarray.
Yes we Can
Yes we Can
Equal pay – done
Bailout pkg – passed
Budget – will pass easy
Troops- timeline set
Health care – will pass easy
stem cell research – done
has your head stopped spinning yet
This President is awesome!!!
Posted by: Omentum | Mar 6, 2009 9:37:52 PM
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Don’t forget the Lilly Ledbetter Act!
But, don’t get your hopes up on health care. It’s not going to be easy.

This is good news for all people, even the stupid ones who don’t seem willing to appreciate it. It is especially hopeful news for those with chronic and currently incureable diseases, for example, Multiple Myeloma, a blood cancer, which I have. With the grace of God, perhaps the scientific community will find a cure.

Here’s a list of stem cell companies that the readers may wish to examine, in no particular order, and not all involved in embryonic, some are in storage, some are in adult stems: ACTC, SCLL, GERN, CBAI, BTIM, ATHX, STEM, ASTM, MCET.
This is great news. To all you that think embryonic stem cells mean killing a baby you are wrong. Look at Advanced Cell Technologies (ACTC) who have a method to harvest embryonic stem cells without any harm to the embryo at all. You pro-lifers have no leg to stand on with this issue, your arguments are false. Here’s hoping to America regaining the lead in this vital field.

You can state over and over and over again, that this type of stem cell research is “science” even though real science has progressed beyond the need to destroy embryos. Pro-stemmers just won’t listen to the facts. They refuse to think and only “feel” – If they keep screaming “Michael J. Fox” and “Christopher Reeve” they think the uninformed will perk up and listen. It’s a shame to have to outright lie to try and get your way.

In-vitro fertilization destroys embryos. Why doesn’t anyone get all up in arms against that?

was the research banned completly, or just using money from american taxpayers

Another attack on morality and religion from the “Godless” liberals.

Throw out the petri dishes and learn how to eat.

The Republican Party likes to label the Democrats as promoting Socialism. Yet they are the Socialist Party when it comes to meddling into the personal and sexual lives of everyone else, whether or not they share the same religious beliefs.
It is very encouraging to see the government removing religion from its 8 year stranglehold on scientific health research. Claiming that stem cell research is equivalent to abortion makes as much sense as claiming eating eggs is killing chickens. Maybe there is a pill to cure people from religious hypocrisy.

The announcement will be about “restoring scientific integrity to health care policy,” an administration official tells ABC News.
Scientific integrity to health care policy? Please read that carefully! Dr. Mengela would be giddy with this mesmerizing propaganda. With Obama leading the way, America can finally ignore all that moral radical right wing preaching, and justly appreciate Obama’s pro-abortion position. Heck, we might even pay $1,000 to poor pregnant girls to abort their non-human fetuses (no moral issue for non-humas right?) at various stages of development for scientific research. You know, it’s like killing two birds with one stone! Those darn liberals, you gotta love ‘em. They’re so clever.

THANK GOD!! FINALLY!!! I just HOPE I live long enough to see stem cell research bring an end to ALL hideous genetic diseases and cures for burn victims and accident victims! I’ve suffered from SEVERE panic disorder (genetic as it ran in my family), unipolar depression, lost my eye and partial vision in the other because of an accident and now have Rheumatoid Arthritis. And I am Net friends with people from all over the world with severe genetic diseases as well as with burn victims and victims of hideous accidents. WHAT A DIFFERENCE STEM CELL RESEARCH COULD EVENTUALLY MAKE IN THE WORLD!!! I’ve seen some VERY ignorant comments on here about “playing God”, etc. “God”, “The Creator”, “Allah” or whatever you choose to call “The Power” gave us something VERY precious called a BRAIN! We were meant to USE these brains to HELP mankind and make the world a better place. It’s about time we began using them and also allotted more funds for research so ALL HUMAN BEINGS can live a normal and happy life and contribute to society! Many thanks to President Obama for representing the people of this great Nation and for helping the world by overturning Bush’s evil legislation!!

There are alot of things that need to be reversed. Off-shore oil drilling, new environmental controls on gasoline blends with light hydrocarbons( due to new, anticipated, oil refineries being built). New environmental controls on automobiles that can’t burn E85 below a fixed CO or CO2 limit. Low cost for E85 at the pump as compared to high cost for the present gasoline at the pump. All “old” cars should run off high grade octane at the pump(some old and new cars will not start on low grade gasoline or low octane gasoline, or combustion is incomplete).

This is just another step in Obama’s pro-choice agenda. It is well known that when he was a state senator in Illinois he was for late term abortions. In fact he tried to get legislation passed that would legalize abortion right on up to the moment of birth. This is the destroying of unborn babies to harvest their stem cells. It is cold blooded murder and it’s just another step in his agenda! To me Obama is just as guilty of killing these babies as the so-called doctors and scientists that do the harvesting!

Wow….whoever says progressive humanism isnt a religion should hear the cries and cavils of “evil!” posted here….I mean one expects it from the right, but the left apparently has it’s ‘evil’ too….

It is about 8.1 (higher rating) the American lost their job under Obama since he took office in January and the stimulus passed in February. It is the highest rating since former President FDR. Obama said the stimulus bill is working when I watch part of CNN’s Larry King last night.The Wall Street show that it down every day because they know his plan doesn’t work. How is he going to fix the problem? The White House and the Democratic Congress are playing “game” and “politic”. Just like they are going after Rush Limbaugh, for example. It is just a wasted of time. The Democratic Congress will lose the election big in 2010. Former Pres. George W. Bush and the Republicans did a good job for the last eight years.

This will make much more sense once we have a health-care system that covers everybody — including those people who would need this technology most but can’t afford it without going bankrupt.

I am a 36 year old woman who has lived with MS for 17 years.I have a chance to go to Germany to have the stem cell research done,but I can not afford to go.I think that if other countries can do this that the US should have already done it.I think that if this could give people back what they have lost then whats the problem.I have two boy’s that play sports and I can’t go watch them play because I have to walk with a cane and that embarasses my sons, do you really know how that feels. So I am asking you to please lets give it a chance, I am ready and willing to let science use my body so we can get this cure, So please as a person with a disease and doesn’t know what tomorrow will bring her,please pass this.

It has been tiring to hear the condemnation coming from those against embryonic stem cell research to those who believe in it. I wonder if those headstrong individuals REALLY recognize that not “everyone” wants to abide by their rules and viewpoints. If we want to speak about killing…well lets speak about the mass amount of killing that goes on constantly world wide. Not Embryos, but children, adults who are alive, breathing, speaking and beyond the embroyonic stage. Where is the condemnation on that?

While Embryonic stem cells (ESC) were previously thought to be more powerful than Adult Stem Cells (ASC) because they can become any cell in the body, new studies on ASC are showing that they can become virtually anything. Scientists recently turned Skin-ASC into Neuron-ASC.
A decade of ESC research around the world has resulted in no human treatments & because the ESC continue to divide beyond the scientist’s control, they can turn into tumors. ESC also require immunosuppressive drugs, which one of the most common forms of ASC (autologous) used in treatment do not.
Over the same decade of research, adult stem cell treatments have given thousands improved health, extended lives, helped paraplegics to walk…
Gave a man with AIDs 2 years (so far) free of symptoms…
Successfully improved MS & Cerebral Palsy patients, the list goes on and on…
ASC are already helping improve & extend the lives of patients with dozens of “incurable” diseases,” 73 diseases when you count only US published scientific papers & well over 100 if you read all of the papers from outside the USA.
Additionally, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC) are ASC modified to be able to become any cell in the human body & seem to have all of the benefits of ESC without the tumor potential & with significantly less of a rejection issue; not to mention without the political & religious controversy.
And now, even the NIH is jumping into the ASC research and treatment pool.
Why is there so much focus on ESC when both ASC & iPSC seem capable of achieving everything ESC can do with a fraction of the obstacles.
The world has been treating thousands successfully with ASC for years. Is it so skewed to believe that we should put the majority of our funding and research into ASC & iPSC so we can treat the multitude of dying and debilitated Americans NOW…
instead of focusing on Embryonic Stem Cells which even Dr James Thomson (the father of embryonic stem cell research) projects won’t give us any cures for 10-50 years!
David

will Obama’s health “Czar” be able to force us to give up stem-cells? Maybe during his consolidation of ALL our health data for his centralized database accessible by political appointees? I imagine if the “Czar” and the database has eliminated our doctor-patient privledge, and our privacy, and will have access to all our health records, sexual history, dna, alcohol/drug/perscription history, fingerprints, mental/emotional health history,etc that the “Czar” could also take our stem cells? Why not?

Posted by: Lee “Thats funny coming from the party that wholeheartedly supports the death penalty even given the facts that innocent people are sometimes blamed.”
As of April 2008, 1,099 criminals have been tried, convicted and executed since 1977. 130 have been found wrongly convicted and released. Those that were executed have committed crimes against the innocent, stood before a jury of their peers, plead their case, been found guilty and sentenced to death.
According to the CDC since 1973, 49,551,703 and counting have been execute before they have even been accused of commiting a crime.
If you find that funny, maybe you should see a doctor?

Diane – “I agree, why was the Bush administration so intent on destroying life in Iraq? How about in Texas where they killed more people than any other state? Why, as a tax payer was I forced to fund dealth?! (bites when it works the other way around, doesn’t it Scott?)”
Only if the argument was valid… Are you saying that you’re willing to allow the unborn to go to trial before they are executed? That’s an idea that might work!
Or perhaps you mean you’d allow them to be born so they can be killed by bombs and bullets? A couple hundred thousand have died in IRAQ over the past 5 years… 40 Million abortions we’re done worldwide last year…

I don’t think that Publius understands that 90% of our medical research has come from ancient practices, banned in todays time. The next time you need an organ transplant, or blood transfusion, or an asprin for your headache, trials for success have resulted from someones death, in the past. As for the Life Raft scenario, fortunatly, the embyronic stem cell is not even on the raft with you. But your train of thought makes my believe you would still let the raft float by. Even if it was empty of life. Someone out there can still be saved, even if you choose not to be. Being against the research is like sinking the raft so no one can be helped.

my husband has lewy body disorder . i am his caregiver .i feed, change diapers and lift him from place to place ,he is completly helpless. I DONT CARE WHERE STEM CELLS COME FROM !!.i would even take them from the religeous idiots that have posted here . anything that would help my husband is welcome.

to subsidize the destruction of precious human life. Millions of Americans strongly oppose that, and rightfully so. Taxpayer dollars should not aid the destruction of innocent human life.”—-he should have used the same test when he supported the Iraq war..and the loss of innocent life, for the purpose of???? stem cells can save “innocent life”

Today, your news allowed the comments of a gentleman who is paralyzed from the waist down, stating that stem cell research will allow him to walk in the future. All reasearch shows embryonic stem cell research will never be the answer for such a cure. ABC as a responsible journalistic program should not dessiminate such information permitting the public to be confused without, not just the Christians for right to life, but an expert who can state unequivocally that stem cell research would never have the answer. You made it appear that choosing Right to Life is preventing paraplegics from walking. Other postings show how confused everyone is about the research. ABC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites, but you are for what you show on your network. ABC, just poor journalistic liscence and if Obama shows up with a paraplegic, this possibly is a sign of an uninformed President.

I may finally be able to get rid of my asthma in due time, maybe even my germinitis!

GOD IS JUST A STORY STEM CELL RESEARCH IS KEY, WE WOULD PROBALY HAVE A CURE FOR THINGS TODAY IF BUSH DIDNT BAN IT. BARACK IS OUR LEADER SUPPORT HIM OH YES DECRIMINILIZE POT ALREADY YOU SILLY SILLY PEOPLE

Though opposed to mans’ tampering with the elemental form of the elements I find Mr. Obama’s decision philosophically sound as it is the narrow incentives of the political economic face’s of mankinds endeavors that funnel curiosities about the world into a directed narrow stream of immediate incentives and practicalities oriented specifically to cure the woes suffered by nature. This might not change if the hand of government is applied to control regardless of the ethics or correctness of science applications. Such changes must come from the scientists themselves. If Socrates is correct in his statement that “if one knows the truth he will act accordingly” I think that the truth is this case is not known to scientists, much less the populace that perceived a practical gain from descriptions of the nature of the research, if it can be accomplished without sacrificing embryos, though perceived that way is not a the real question regarding mankind and nature, and the possible natural ethic that exists.
I am a PhD biochemist, never worked who has had time to reflect to these issues ,the nature of science investigations, and its’ misconceptions and missing knowing, even among the most reflective and respected experts. Science study, its’ investigations are indeed intriguing, absorbing, promising the appliction of good intentions. it also, today’s’ science, relies on abstracted theories for which no direct verification is possible. Can one actually weigh an electron? What is it, a point of light, energy? as it might be visualized, but it is also postulated to release light energy and in no more a point of energy than color might be a color. Experiment says abstracted ideas explain observation, but the ideas refer to things that are beyond observability. These types of theory are all self subscribing, self supporting; proclamation that could be hardly immiscible with the proclamations of government and come to cloud the eyes of the scientists considerably upon the involvement of political authority. Today scientist pursue a full scale multifaceted military like assault on nature as the source of woe sufferings and disease in a blinded state that places mankind, in the same boat, necessarily a self target of his own prescribed scholastically oriented self denigrations in the name of total objectivity.
Lastly, as I do not have faith that scientists will come around to common sense, the hand of government upon will do no good also, I will state my reasoning in another way that may be more accessible to the common person.
Nature occurs as a genetic process, the process of change, emergence, presenting more and more exceptions to theory daily, not understood in the framework of modern science, though a loosening is taking place to view things more fluidly up to a point, we are all still in the dark. Essentially nature proceeds as men perceive themselves to proceed, father/mother to son, the nature of the parents ,their parents prescribe the nature of their offspring. In a big view men/women give birth to men/women but science in subtle confusions forgets these simple facts of life. The hand of men in the scientific manipulation of human biology and genetics ,especially at the miniature level of genes, or the physicist withthe energy (glue) of the atom, becomes also factor, component of the succeeding stages. His hand and ideas a genetic element, applied willfully as an instrument of change. What might that produce? regardless of what a consortium of the most intelligent and accomplished of scientists and experts, is unknown and cannot be beneficial as what is contained in the scientists hands has already come about, is a push backwards, and intervening element in the free courses of nature applied in an manner in which the scientist does not really have explanation for such things as cognition, consciousness , thinking, intelligence; researches these topic in the same ignorant manner, and has no conception of himself as mirror of nature, rather as a special example in which a forceful, push and shove, battle of who mirrors what is occurring. This is not a handsome behavior .
Though discussed in the earliest writing of civilization, in Plato, society has pursued more the statistically suggestive approaches of Aristotle, but an issue that is beyond the observed high human populations and mankinds’ civilization is at hand that I believe involves a chronic environmental issue-as immunological issues refer to what is against the self, cannot a physical/structural deterioration be called immunological , and is it not where a vast amount of knowledge has been gained that one should seek to apply it to effect further negative structural adjustment , rather than to seek to find and assault a potentially unique problem for which we might have treatment and remedies already available. Many modern scholars are active seeking clues to mankinds’ past in evidences from old civilizations but receive a small fraction of the funding as they border more on the serendipitous, chance, discovery rather than direct practicality with a greater probability of returns, though all life is commonly known as only a happenstance of events. It is admirable that, far be it, for the hands of transient leader to proclaim it so as law. Governments of the people obviously is not the same as people of the government. I had on occasion had to panhandle for street change to survive and received on one occasion, other than coins, the statement “real change comes from within”.

Contrary to what many people believe, embryonic stem cells are no more versatile than adult stem cells. Since Nov. 2007, scientists have been able to reprogram adult stem cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), which have much more potential than stem cells harvested from an embryo. For one, these cells can be taken from the patient, which means they are an exact match for the patient, eliminating the problem of immune rejection. Also, adult stem cells have actually been proven useful in clinical studies, while independent researchers conducting embryonic stem cell research have not produced one successful cure or treatment.
Most people reading this probably have no clue that adult stem cells have the potential that they do because the liberal media has once again failed to inform the public about such advances because they are detrimental to the Democratic party platforms.
Even if you are unreligious, you should recognize that embryonic stem cell research is just a political scheme to garner more support and approval for the Obama administration. Obama is disregarding the progress made using non-controversial adult stem cell research because his party has long been proponents of embryonic stem cell research as the gold standard. They cannot admit when they are wrong, or learn to respect the religious beliefs of the American people.
Obama claimed that the majority of America was behind him, but I have yet to see the survey that he referenced. Even if a survey was used, the people of this country are ignorant of the advancements that have been made.
For those of you who enjoy bashing religion, remember what Einstein said: “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” He recognized that moral truths and ethics are important to science, and the integration of science and religion protects the world from repeating the tragedies of the Holocaust and the horrendous experiments undertaken by the Nazi regime.
Like all things where man is involved, no religion is perfect. Yet, the Judeo-Christian ideals that were incorporated into our society at its founding have had a huge part in our success as a nation.
For more info, read the article “Stem Cells- A Political History”, from First Things magazine, or check out the book “Embryo- A defense of human life.”
God Bless

I strongly disagree with embryonic stem cell research. If the adult stem cells are as useful as they say then why not just use them? Why kill innocent precious life? I agree with half the statements above that if it is fertilized it is LIFE. I also agree that they are taking away the choice for LIFE. I was barely to young to vote and now I’m glad I was. I would’ve voted for Obama and suffered with disappointment in my choice.

Though I stated in earlier comments my views on genetic tampering, I did not really delineate what I mean by tampering, and can also sympathise deeply with those who know that science has the potential to alleviate terrible suffering. With regards to this, criteria for what constitutes %quot;dangereous tampering%quot; is open. Immanuel Velikovsky a psychoanalyst and correspondant with Einstein, believed that all history was the product of transiently occuring, unnoticed events-i.e.-dust flying in the eye produces a sore that eventually leads distorts visual perspective and leads to a scintitific outlook and career as an artist painting perspectives. I would not apply my argument for illegal genetic tampering to the activity of finding and moving the dust particle whose initial event and cure both can possibly come about by (witnessable) happenstance. Diabetes can conceivably happen from material lodging under the skin. The important fact in these issues involves the discrimination between normal physioloogical adjustments to the dust, and the presence of the dust itself. One cannot, should not think to attempt to change the genetics and biochemistry of insulin metabolism as the disease may be not the result of a problem with it though a relief of suffering might be possible with this stragety-but is a dangerous tampering. I think it is possible that scientists might find that nature committs few flaws or errors, and that all that is ever observed,maybe all that is possible to occur, is adjustment to stress;in this probable event scientists would regret effecting actual changes. The actions of stem cells could conceivable be to evict, for example, an invaded dust particle. To breed stem cells or clone them specifically though may be to tread a dangerous ground if one seeks to effect directed changes in genetic development. To re-expose individuals to their own non genetically manipulated cells maybe less dangerous. To think to create embryos or use embryos for sacrifice to acquire stem cells is obviously not moral, a squandering abuse of life, of the gift of life. I think it is at %quot;happenstance%quot; that one can perceive a dividing line between urges to repetitively control based on a found luck and the amount of expense and energy force that one applies to effect a control-amount of applied force verses allowance of freedom for adjustment.This is just a thought experiment,potential example, but one must always keep his own balance in the seas of vices that rise and fall with history not to apply a vice(grip)to nature. In the problem presented of the dust in the eye of the scientist- artist, it is important that only a mechanical treatment for the dust is applied rather than a molecular genetics treatment for the irritated re-adusted eye. The logic of the non-proximal scientist combined with that of the practical, empathetic, hands on physician, can be blinding to both. The physician should not be lead to overstep, from his quarters, mankinds contract with nature,nature with mankind, that is based on a philosophy of a nonmalicious ultimate nature to nature, to unknowingly effect a maliciousness himself.

Well people this is a big mistake. Imagine this: Alright they found a cure for cancer or whatever they’re trying to cure. BUT if they cure it there will be another disease coming up after this, and they are not going to know what to do. So it’s just like a cycle, they find a cure for something but something much worse can come out of it. Just think about that. And YES embryos are babies and the scientists are killing them. Don’t you think they should just let the babies live their life for god sakes how are you going to be killing someone innocent to save someone that already had the chance to live? Ugh i just don’t get how ignorant they are, they should stop thinking with whatever they’re thinking and start thinking with their brains. I know i would prefer to die than to kill someone that has not have the chance to live.