Obama to Overturn Stem Cell Ban

Quick edit note.
It's undo not undue.....

Also:
legilsation
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But as for the post itself: thank goodness. It's about damn time.

Thanks so much for this post, Jay Newton-Small.
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I did not know that this was happening; now I am.
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Excellent quick blog post, Jay Newton-Small.

Thanks so much for this post, Jay Newton-Small.
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I did not know that this was happening; now I am aware.
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Excellent quick blog post, Jay Newton-Small.

JN-S: Thanks for posting the information. When Bush banned federally funded research using embryonic stem cells (with the exceptions of a few virtually useless lines) his order also banned privately funded researchers from even using the same labs that received federal funding. Since government funded labs are generally the ones with the best equipment, he pretty much eliminated a significant potion of the research. The anti-science wingnuts should be howling about this one.

Maybe we should re-open the whole cloning thing too. Let's throw the wingnuts a bone. We'll clone dinosaurs so they can ride around on them just like in the old days. That should make them happy.

Who made Obama our self-anointed stem cell guy? Huh?!

Jay, Sorry to join the typo gang, but the "be" is missing after will.
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very soon there will other options for those extra embyros
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Thanks for posting. Thought this was in the works, but glad to know it's soon.

I would call jumping back on stem cell research the real intelligent design, nevermind what the religious crazies think it is.

Actually the Repubs can ride the Democrat EATING dinosaurs!!

Actually the Repubs can ride the Democrat EATING dinosaurs!!
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At long last, rusty comes out of the closet.

formerlyjames: I'm sure you were already aware that the fertility clinics destroyed the excess embryos after the couples conceived. Allowing religious objections to derail scientific advancement has set us back time after time. If the donors gave their consent for the excess embryos to be used, I never had a problem with it. The potential benefits to society outweigh the objections of individual groups. If embyronic stem cell research eventually enables the medical community to be able to regenerate spinal cord tissue, I have a hard time believing that even the most ardent objectors would tell their paralyzed child that they have to stay confined to a wheelchair because mommy and daddy have religious objections to the treatment.

#13 sacredh Says:
Friday, March 6, 2009 at 5:42 pm

...If embryonic stem cell research eventually enables the medical community to be able to regenerate spinal cord tissue, I have a hard time believing that even the most ardent objectors would tell their paralyzed child that they have to stay confined to a wheelchair because mommy and daddy have religious objections to the treatment.

sacredh,
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...never, ever underestimate the self-delusional, self-destructive, and/or just plain old idiotic behavior of the religious wingnut. Granted, most of the "you gotta abide by my irrational beliefs" admonishments are generally turned on outsiders (i.e. non-family or non-group insider), but there are many who will delude themselves into believing their irrationality is an inviolable law of existence.

sacredh, I don't know about about how or when embryos are destroyed, although I am aware that if they are not implanted they are destroyed, which renders the religious idiots connection of stem cell research to abortion moot.
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As for those suffering medical ills which may be resolved by stem cell research, the biggest immediate reward being related to diabetes, the religious right would have you pray. Just like they did over dead bodies before the discoveries of scientists related to insulin and life-saving therapy. St. Paul, especially, would urge that we are not of this world, and it really isn't important, we seek another world. Good luck on that.

henqiguai: Being an atheist, it's hard for me understand how religious beliefs could stand in the way of preventing a family member from leading a fuller, more productive life. I'm sure you're right and that there are individuals that would rather see a family member suffer rather than violate their beliefs, but I still can't comprehend it on a personal level. If my wife or son ever suffered an injury so severe that they became paralyzed, I would move heaven and earth (figuratively speaking) and give up everything I owned to restore them to health. If I was religious, I'd try to make peace with my God AFTER they were healed. I just can't imagine not doing whatever it took.

sacredh, never underestimate other people's blind devotion to faith. Even if it means the death of one of the children...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/357116_faithhealing01.html

I don't see how a reasonable person could argue against this. Having said that, I expect people to argue against it.
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Sacred, while we're cloning dinosaurs I think the Republican party as it's currently constituted might qualify. We could put them in museums for our kids. "Look Billy, they used crude tools like tax cuts to solve all their problems. See how far we've come!"

Like most of the issues where conservatives are playing the obstructionist game, an overwhelming majority of Americans are firmly in support of the president's position.

This is far from a 'controversial" decision by Obama.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

sacredh, regardless of what the christian, muslim, and other religiously deranged fundamentalists would tell you, I think GOD would approve of your views. If HE existed.

How soon will we see the clueless socialist push for federal legislation establishing a "right" to kill infants who have survived abortions like he did as an Illinois legislator? A day? A week?

Not that I'm trying to "convert" anyone to atheism, but one of the advantages is that if you believe that this is the only chance we get, you'd better do a good job and enjoy what you have while you have it. I want to see advances while I'm still around to benefit from them

textee, hahahahahahahaha.

Laughs some more, points finger at you.

This is the only world I know and any other is only in a Walt Disney world of imagination to me. I will deal with it when I get there, if that were to happen. I will ask for mercy, and suggest to GOD that HE might have given better notice than what I heard from the idiots I encountered on earth. And that BOOK needs serious revision BTW.

This is for textee, spob, hula-girl et al:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2LG-ASco6o
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Get together and rent this. Buy some bud, grab your guns, and allow your fav Swamp "liberals" to stand in for the Soviet heroes seen here. As Jack said In a Few Right Wing Men, you need us on that wall, in your mirrors etc. We, your imagined tormentors, the evil to your tasty goodness.
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Textee, I think I saw your doppelganger, the klansman in O'Brother: "All these boys is miscegenated!" Never forget: We're baby killers, we burn the flag, we want gays to teach your children sex-ed, we think chimps are not only your ancestors but your current intellectual superiors. Viva the enemy!
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Anyway, after the credits roll, you can admit that you've long found Hula deeply attractive, stroking his "glock."