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President Obama today reversed the standing embryonic stem cell research policy by signing an executive order. The order will allow federal money to go directly to the research. Private research has been conducted for years with no real break-throughs reported. All promising research and findings have been in the adult stem cell research field. If embryonic stem cells were so critical to expanding treatments, private money from corporate drug companies would have flooded in to fund the work. However, they know that there is no future there and have invested in the adult and umbilical chord blood research instead.
Obama tried to throw a bone to conservatives by saying that cloning was bad and dangerous. I guess killing embryos for so called medical research is not bad or dangerous. Obama has quite the full plate and in my opinion needs to focus on the economy. Instead, he is trying to accomplish all of his objectives in the first 100 days. I really expected nothing less from a man that would not want his daughters punished with a baby. He has already reinstated using your tax dollars to fund over seas abortions. Look out gun owners, you could be next.
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Corporate drug companies will probably do what they usually do- let publicly funded entities like the National Institute of Health do the majority of the research and then license the results, tweaking them just enough to get a patent.
That will allow them to continue spending more on marketing than research, a pattern that's made them very wealthy while citizens essentially pay for the same drugs twice.
And in the meantime, we care less about the human embryos than we do any other issue. Why is that?
To oversimplify, we don't agree on when life starts. None of us are for murder. We value life as we should.
But, outside of educated guesses and platitudes, neither science nor religion has definitively determined the moment when a person becomes a person.
Supernatural or übertechnical? I don't have a clue.
All of us, though, try to err on the side of caution- due either to our respect and appreciation for being a person or our reverence for those who make being one possible.
At least on some days, you'd think that would be enough.
Daaniel:
Better to further SCIENCE than even BOTHER to practice ANY form of ETHICS...
Private funding of such issues worked rather well in the past, and I don't much appreciate MY tax dollars (or yours) to be used in this manner, when our nation has a LOT more URGENT items on the plate that really DO need fixing.
How typical.
B.G.
My tax dollars chasing something that has shown little promise or practicality in medicine or science? Has that ever happened before? LMAO
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