Politics, not Science

In 2008 Americans applauded results that showed how ADULT stem cells have not just been used in over 71 successful treatments, but are actually now being used to cure or reverse some forms of diseases.

This breakthrough was hailed with resounding praise from even the most liberal media outlets, and it seemed universal that the use of EMBRYONIC stem cells would from then on, be seen as unnessary.

So why then would President Obama announce today that he will lift President Bush's ban on Feceral Funding to expand EMBRYONIC stem cell research? Aside from the fact that most scientists now agree EMBRYONIC stem cell research is unnessary, it would be a further waste of federal dollars. When our Federal budget deficits are at record highs, we don't need another hole to throw Federal dollars into?

Here's a quote Good Morning American ran today: "Encompassed in [the executive order] will also be the requirements around guidelines that will be drafted by the NIH [National Institutes of Health] as they ... work with others around the country to make sure we're handling the issue responsibly," said Melody Barnes, the director of the president's Domestic Policy Council.
The president will also sign a memorandum that Barnes says will "restore scientific integrity in government decision making." It will help ensure public policy is "guided by sound scientific advice," she said. [notice she said ADVICE, not FACT? That's becuase it's someone's OPINION!]

And Michael J. Fox was interviewed by GMA saying: "Today is a new day. I'm thrilled to see President Obama has honored his commitment to get politics out of science," Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, told "Good Morning America." "The last few years have been incredibly frustrating for patients and researchers who believe that embryonic stem cell research has the potential to bring better treatment." [notice how Obama's new form of "politics in science" is now are driven by the "beliefs" of non-scientists like celebrities who are stricken with unfortunate diseases]. Gee, that's progress! -not.

The private sector has been conducting EMBRYONIC stem cell research for decades. That huge body of evidence shows that due to the "morphing" unstable nature of EMBRYONIC stem cells, the use of the cells doesn't work. Think about it. What do embyros naturally do? Our creator has designed each cell to divide and has pre-programmed those parts to become....a brain....a heart....a spine. So scientists efforts to make them "morph" into other things hasn't worked. In contrast, ADULT stem cells that are ALREADY stable cells and have therefore been used successfully to transform them into useful cells for treatments, and now cures.

EMBRYONIC stem cell research doesn't work. It's expensive, and in 2008 was proven scientifically to be unnessary. So why is Presient Obama now deciding to Federally fund the desctruction of these viable human lives? Politics. Plain and simple.

[Get ahold of the March 2009 issue of Good Housekeeping Magazine. (sally field is on the cover). There is a good article about a woman who had invitro fertilization to give birth to her children, and "shared" her "left-over" fertilized frozen embryos with two other child-less families who gave birth to those embryos. ]

EMBRYOs are not just useless cells. This is viable human life -- the way each of us started out....."people" who President Obama has just decided - based on politics -- to use your and my tax dollars to pay to destroy.

There have been many sad decisions we have witnessed in America in the short time since President Obama's inauguration -- and this is -- so far -- the saddest.

Wake up America!