Re: "taking a human life" when you're dealing with cells in a petri dish
- From: "Laz" <lazgara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:19:15 -0400
If only ignorant people actually permitted everyone (including themselves)
to know and understand at what stage Embryonic Stems Cells are cultivated -
before any differentiation - before the cells are human form - before those
cells have feelings or thoughts - before it can be established that they are
even human cells - they may understand just how stupid their stance against
this research is. Our wonderful Country is going to pot at the hands of our
so called "moral majority" Christian Right. The reason for this is because
the REAL majority is too damn lazy to take a stand on any issues - all they
care about is just having a good time. Meanwhile, everyone suffers and
quality medical progress is at a stand-still. I hope like heck that their
kids and spouses will one day need medical help that could have been
available if they had not been forcing their ignorant views on everyone -
the REAL majority! What given Them the right to do this?! Of course, these
people are happy with the idea that it is OK for our loved ones to die cause
it is GOD'S PLAN and it just simply means that God loves them more and wants
them closer - in Heaven! These views - whether right or wrong - are in
fact as far apart from the MAIN STREAM of World Society as Taliban's views
are with those of the US government. Two totally different forms of
REALITY - each self propagating ignorantly without serious cognizance of the
other. What a "wonderful world"? History again repeats itself - Welcome
2005 version - "Salem Witch Trials of 1692", and the "Crusades"!
I cannot even imagine THIS to be GOD'S PLAN!
"Jim Carter" <spamfree@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Published July 24, 2005
>
>
> When Burt Aaronson talks to audiences these days, he's likely to
> ask for a show of hands.
>
> "How many people here know someone who's had cancer? Or heart
> disease? Or diabetes?" he'll ask.
>
> "How many have a relative who's had one of these? Or a friend? Or
> an enemy?"
>
> He says the result is the same every time.
>
> "Every hand goes up," he says.
>
> That is the strongest argument for the ballot effort that's meant
> to put Florida in the business of funding embryonic stem cell
> research -- research that Gov. Jeb Bush has said he'll never
> allow.
>
> Simply put: Can we afford to shut our minds to new knowledge that
> holds the potential for staggering medical advances?
>
> Aaronson, the Palm Beach County commissioner, recently founded
> Floridians for Stem Cell Research and Cures to push a
> constitutional amendment onto the ballot next year.
>
> If it were up to the just three big counties in South Florida, it
> would win hands down.
>
> But throw in the rest of the state, where social conservatives
> surely will battle in defense of helpless embryos, and I'm
> thinking the outcome is anybody's guess.
>
> The Christian right has held the upper hand in this debate since
> August 2001, when President Bush sharply curtailed federally
> funded embryonic stem cell research on right-to-life grounds
>
> His brother, Jeb Bush, echoed that last month at the
> Biotechnology Industry Organization conference in Philadelphia.
> The governor was up there to crow about The Scripps Research
> Institute and Florida's arrival in the biotech big-time.
>
> How? By telling reporters he's against a major new branch of
> research.
>
> "Taking a human life to save life is a huge contradiction
> morally," he said.
>
> I admit I'm no theologian. But it seems to me quite a stretch to
> call it "taking a human life" when you're dealing with cells in a
> petri dish that never will be in a womb.
>
> Imagine this, says Bernard Siegel, the Wellington-based president
> of the Genetics Policy Institute, an advocacy group:
>
> You take an ordinary skin cell from a patient, one of 100
> trillion body cells. You put it in an unfertilized egg, with
> nucleus removed, and give it a small electric shock. The cell
> divides and takes on embryonic properties. From there it can
> produce any tissue in the body.
>
> "Imagine," Siegel continues, "You can take someone who is
> paralyzed and regenerate nerve cells to repair a spinal cord."
>
> This is the promise of so-called therapeutic cloning. Despite the
> scary name, it's far from the reproductive cloning of human
> beings.
>
> Siegel, a big backer of the ballot initiative, doesn't know of
> any statewide polls on stem cell issues.
> --
> Spelling and grammatical errors are deliberate
> to catch copyright violators. ©¿©¬
> Perth, Ontario, Canada
.
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