Tags for This Article:

Health (619)  Science (389)  Funding (252)  Right Wing Hypocrisy (236)  George W Bush (196)  Science And Technology (56)  Science Fake Bush GOP (43)  Rich (35)  Health Research (28) 

Populum Tag Cloud
       Control Panel
Fine tune your search to access content
Articles
Diaries Products
Events All
All time
Last 6 mos
Last month
Last week
Last 24 hrs
From:
Month  Day   Year

To:
Month  Day   Year
Alphabet
Popularity
Count ON
Count OFF
This Level
Sub-levels

 

 

 

Tag(s): ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Add to My Group
November 22, 2007 at 09:32:10

Skin Cell Research Boon for Right To Lifers, 7 Years too Late for the Sick

by Sandy Sand     Page 1 of 1 page(s)

http://www.opednews.com

Tell A Friend

George Bush's right-to-lifers are going nya, nya, nya we were right all along.

They're using a technique of using skin cells as a substitute for human-embryo cells for research as a boon for the their cause.

Boon to their cause it might be, but it's seven years too late for the sick who could have used any break-throughs in cures for catasprophic diseases, if there had been any.

It's not like researchers all over the world haven't been doing plenty of research on their own and/or with help from their own governments.  But, if some of the might of the U.S. treasury had been thrown behind American researchers, we'd be seven years ahead of the game.

Thank you, George Bush on this day of Thanksgiving for your unChristian, wrong-headed, unconscionable, short-sighted, inhuman philosophies.

You haven't done one thing for the good of the average American people for whom you work.  In this one specific case, refusing to allow government funding for embryonic stem cell research, you also haven't done anything to help the only people you care about...your very rich friends.  

 

Sandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspapers in Burbank. She is currently a guest columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News and contributor to ronkayela.com

Contact Author
Contact Editor
View Other Articles by Author

 

Bookmark this page: (what's this?)

NETSCAPE      DIGG THIS      NEWSVINE      DEl.ICIO.US      Looksmart Furl      My Web      Spurl      Tag!RawSugar      Shadows Tag!      Blink List     (More...)
Comments: Expand   Shrink   Hide  
6 comments

Robert Sargent is co-owner of a Washington State commercial printing company with operations in Seattle and Redmond. He has an Economics degree from the University of Washington and occasionally plays alto sax with the Husky alumni band. An amateur economist, investor and photographer, and fiscally conservative moderate at heart, Robert has been a "yellow-dog Democrat" since the Bush administration "began screwing up the world beyond repair". Active in local and national political races, Mr. Sar...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Robert SargentRobert Sargent is co-owner of a Washington State commercial printing company with operations in Seattle and Redmond. He has an Economics degree from the University of Washington and occasionally plays alto sax with the Husky alumni band. An amateur economist, investor and photographer, and fiscally conservative moderate at heart, Robert has been a "yellow-dog Democrat" since the Bush administration "began screwing up the world beyond repair". Active in local and national political races, Mr. Sar...

to see more of bio, click on member name

A million people...

...have perished as a direct or indirect result of our "experiment" in democracizing Iraq, and if we can believe the reports on depleted uranium weapons, we've forever poisoned the region and condemned the Iraqi people to extraordinary rates of cancer and genetic birth defects.

All this the fruit of the same right-wing religious fruits who put Bush in office, got him re-elected, and supported him every step of the way, all the while railing against the immorality of stem cell research. 

by Robert Sargent (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 24 diaries, 290 comments) on Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 11:58:18 PM
 


Robert Sargent is co-owner of a Washington State commercial printing company with operations in Seattle and Redmond. He has an Economics degree from the University of Washington and occasionally plays alto sax with the Husky alumni band. An amateur economist, investor and photographer, and fiscally conservative moderate at heart, Robert has been a "yellow-dog Democrat" since the Bush administration "began screwing up the world beyond repair". Active in local and national political races, Mr. Sar...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Robert SargentRobert Sargent is co-owner of a Washington State commercial printing company with operations in Seattle and Redmond. He has an Economics degree from the University of Washington and occasionally plays alto sax with the Husky alumni band. An amateur economist, investor and photographer, and fiscally conservative moderate at heart, Robert has been a "yellow-dog Democrat" since the Bush administration "began screwing up the world beyond repair". Active in local and national political races, Mr. Sar...

to see more of bio, click on member name

A million people...

...have perished as a direct or indirect result of our "experiment" in democracizing Iraq, and if we can believe the reports on depleted uranium weapons, we've forever poisoned the region and condemned the Iraqi people to extraordinary rates of cancer and genetic birth defects.

All this the fruit of the same right-wing religious fruits who put Bush in office, got him re-elected, and supported him every step of the way, all the while railing against the immorality of stem cell research. 

by Robert Sargent (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 24 diaries, 290 comments) on Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 11:58:49 PM
 


Having lived six decades now, I've had a lot of experiences! Grew up in a family often oppressed because of our faith - we stood for peace and against war, and for the rights of all regardless of ethnic background. Active from youth in peace and civil rights. Vietnam-era draft resister. Worked for a while for peace and social justice groups, and then became a civil servant. Felt a call to a consistent life ethic, and am currently serving as President of Consistent Life. All this is out of Chr...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Bill SamuelHaving lived six decades now, I've had a lot of experiences! Grew up in a family often oppressed because of our faith - we stood for peace and against war, and for the rights of all regardless of ethnic background. Active from youth in peace and civil rights. Vietnam-era draft resister. Worked for a while for peace and social justice groups, and then became a civil servant. Felt a call to a consistent life ethic, and am currently serving as President of Consistent Life. All this is out of Chr...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Stem Cell Research has worked

Stem cell research has produced dozens of cures.  But every one has been produced through adult or cord blood cells.  Embryonic stem cell research received much funding, but has failed utterly to produce any cures.  Some systemic reasons for that have been found, showing inherent problems with using embryonic stem cells that no researcher has found a way to overcome.

The original theory behind using embryonic stem cells was that only these cells could be transformed into any kind of cell.  The last few years of research has proven that false.

So with the theory behind embryonic stem cell research proven false and serious inherent problems with using embryonic stem cells having been discovered, why has the push for public funding of such research continued?

Simple capitalism.  Lines of embryonic stem cells can be patented, meaning this kind of stem cell research has much larger potentials for profit should it ever succeed.  And, typical of American capitalism, the companies involved have sought the usual source for their capital - the American taxpayer.  And they have managed to succeed in this sale in numerous states, although they did lose a recent referendum in New Jersey. 

by Bill Samuel (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 181 comments) on Friday, November 23, 2007 at 5:22:52 PM
 


I am a 65 year old widowed grandmother who just got health insurance after more than two decades without it which is difficult with Diabetes, asthma and hypertension. One of my sons is severely developmentally disabled by autism due to lead paint poisoning. I have spent much of my life caring for ill and disabled family members and advocating on their behalf. 
Pat WilliamsI am a 65 year old widowed grandmother who just got health insurance after more than two decades without it which is difficult with Diabetes, asthma and hypertension. One of my sons is severely developmentally disabled by autism due to lead paint poisoning. I have spent much of my life caring for ill and disabled family members and advocating on their behalf. 

A Capitalist Plot?

Stem cell research requires many new lines of stem cells. A limited number of lines of stem cells has been the problem. So all this time, fertility clinics have been destroying perfectly good embryos instead of supplying  them for stem cell research. The research is promising. Only time will tell. But six years running interference with access to new stem cells is stupid. I consider it also to be immoral. Diabetes is rampant in my family. My late husband suffered terribly from Parkinson's. Our society should not be subject to the dictates of those who imagine that non-sentient embryos are babies.

by Pat Williams (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 81 comments) on Saturday, November 24, 2007 at 12:07:04 AM
 

 

6 comments

 

Tell A Friend

 


Copyright © OpEdNews, 2002-2008

 

 

 

 

Articles
Diaries Members
Products Events
Polls  
  

Articles Popularity:

Momentum Building For Bugliosi's Case Against George W. Bush For Murder
by Linda Milazzo

Bush Fulfills His Grandfather's Dream
by David Swanson

A Declaration of Independence from the Government of the United States
by Anonymous

The Perfect Storm from Hell
by Lord Stirling

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GAS REACHES 7 DOLLARS A GALLON ?
by Allen L Roland

Fortis Prediction of US Bank Meltdown a Net Hoax: The Making of an Urban Legend
by Paul Haughey

POW/MIA Families Alleged McCain Assault: Senate Ethics Committee Failed to Investigate
by elliot cohen

Why were 'first responders' de-contaminated at the Pentagon?
by Len Hart

Ex Weapons Inspector: Iran Not Pursuing Nukes, But U.S. Will Attack Before '09
by Jason Leopold

Raw milk and the government/corporate effort to crush it
by Linn Cohen-Cole