> KD wrote:

>>> From What's New by Robert L. Park:

>>
>> The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act passed the Senate 63-34, but
>> President Bush promises a veto. He said the use of embryonic stem
>> cells in research "crosses a moral line." In case you're wondering
>> where this "moral line" is drawn, WN has looked into it. George W.
>> Bush and other conservative theologians believe a "soul" is assigned
>> to the fertilized egg at the instant of conception. That makes it a
>> person, even though it's not counted in the census. In-vitro
>> fertilization makes a lot more of these one-celled people than it
>> needs; leftovers are stacked in the freezer until it starts filling
>> up. President Bush cares deeply about these helpless one-celled
>> people and wants to ensure they are properly flushed down the disposal
>> rather than exploited by godless scientists interested only the
>> reduction of suffering.
>>

> KD you buy too easily into half-truths! Take a look -
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/28/national/main712541.shtml, and
> second of all, why take life, when you can get the same embryonic stem
> cells from afterbirth? Michael J. Fox already knows he has mud on his
> face from this fight, and it's silly for the Democrats to go and beat
> this now dead horse issue! They are hoping a few ignorant Americans who
> don't know embryonic stem cells are readily available from all the
> afterbirth out there being produced every day, will see Bush as a
> villain who is out to keep people sick and crippled with no good reason,
> when there is no basis for truth in this matter.
>
> Plus all the promising research that has come forward in stem-cell
> research, including the most promising one that can deliver people from
> type 1 diabetes, has come from adult stem cell research. Nothing yet
> has been yielded from embryonic stem cell research, but with the readily
> available supply of embryonic stem cells from afterbirth that is being
> produced in a large quantity on a daily basis in hospitals around the
> world, I say go ahead and do your research and see what you can find.
>
> The Democrats pushing to use Embryos themselves to destroy for research
> is not only bad politics, but its stinks of Nazi propaganda and science!
>
> Stupendous Man
>
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>

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