Thread: FDA approved embryonic stem cell trials

Originally Posted by Nord Jim

The agencies offered that as a solution -- funding for family planning services only, with transparent bookkeeping to keep things on the up-and-up. The ideologues in the Bush administration said no.

j

And now we have the idealogues of the Obama administration saying "no" to providing it without also funding abortion.

Originally Posted by Seraphim

And now we have the idealogues of the Obama administration saying "no" to providing it without also funding abortion.

Nope, sorry. Not the same thing at all.

Obama supports reproductive freedom; Bush opposed it. Therefore, Obama supports funding of abortion, which Bush opposed. Fair enough.

But Bush also de-funded any organization that had anything to do with abortion, even though he wasn't being asked to support the abortions themselves. He did this as a sop to one of his constituencies, even though it was manifestly not in the national interest, and had the effect of increasing the number of abortions anyway. With the third world population explosion as it is, this was not only stupid, it was bad for the nation and the world community.

That's the difference.

j

I hope that soon we'll all be able to go to the phrarmacy and purchase pre-packaged stem cell injections over the counter. That way if a person is injured, they can just inject themselves and have the recuperative powers of Wolverine.

Originally Posted by Blade Wielder

I hope that soon we'll all be able to go to the phrarmacy and purchase pre-packaged stem cell injections over the counter. That way if a person is injured, they can just inject themselves and have the recuperative powers of Wolverine.

Everyone knows stem cells aren't worth a damn unless you snap the head off a fetus and suck them out of the spine fresh. Wolverine. Honestly. What childishness!




-Rob