As expected, Obama has reversed the White House’s position on stem cell research with an executive order yesterday. The federal government will now fund embryonic stem cell research. This is another pro choice statement by the Obama administration.
This was one issue that former President Bush was very strong on. Because of his veto threat to any bill authorizing embryos for research, many technological advances were made that will allow scientists to do much of this research without the use of these embryos. Instead of embracing this success and pushing further advances, this administration has taken the easy road out and disregarded human life once again.
I thought this would be a moot point due to these advances in technology, but I guess the political pressure from the left was more than this administration could take.
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embryonic stem cell study is not necessary in the fight against many neurological diseases. adult stem cells provide sufficient data and tissue for this research. additionally, i believe there are still many exhisting embryonic stem cell lines being studied presently. i believe these lines were allowed to continue because they were under exhisting studies, before former president bush made it illegal to use fed funds for the research. supporters of the decision are quick to point out that Americans won’t be financing the death of embryos. Although we may not be funding the killing, we are funding the killers. For now, the one law that prevents Obama from using taxpayer dollars to fund the destruction of embryos directly is still in place. The Dickey-Wicker amendment, approved by Congress. i feel i have the right to speak with authority on this controversial issue. i have parkinson’s disease. i’m sorry to say michael j fox has it wrong on this issue. michael does wonderful things for parinsonism, but we can do without using embryonic, just not necessary.
Very good points Greg.
The Left’s thrust here, as in its pro-abortion advocacy, seems to me to reflect for the nth time their extreme shallowness and soulessness. To imply that a life is actually not a life because you can’t see it peddling down the sidewalk on a tricycle or sitting at the Starbucks sipping a latte with you is the height of brain-dead superficiality. It is also, as should always be emphasized, the closest thing in modern America to the slaveholder’s mindset from past centuries: in which a person is not regarded as a full or worthy person, because he doesn’ look like us. Like the slaves of past centuries, embryos can be made to “do our work for us,” to perform tasks that we otherwise could not do, because afterall they’re not really human like us..
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