Originally posted by Stringer
BZZZT...Wrong.
Both the House and Senate approved the legislation....THAT was the will of the people....GWB Vetoed the Bill, which went AGAINST the WILL of the people, according to how the people's elected body voted.
Soooo....the will of the people as expressed through their direct representatives voted FOR the legislation.
Yes, Stringer, I'm aware of the vetoed legislation. I was refering to the election of the President himself, who ran on a platform that included opposing destruction of new embyos for research. The point I was making was regarding the suggestion that opposing stem embryonic stem cell research on moral or religious grounds somehow ran contrary to the US Constitution. I take it that you agree with the rest of my post then?
Here is my opinion: I believe that in the same way most Americans believe abortions should be avoided if possible (i.e. abortion should not be used for casual birth control), I believe most would not support Federal funding of ESC research if they understood the touted promise is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. As posted above, adult and cord-blood stem cell research is delivering, where ESC is not (and not because of a lack of funding, federal or otherwise). Any exploitation of human life is a step down a road, the destination of which most decent people can't help but find abhorrent.
BJ229r, thanks for the info. I was aware of some of these studies, but not the Type-I diebetes one. My daughter is Type-I diebetic, and on insulin since she was 6 1/2 years old (she's 21 now). This brings real hope to me, not the false hope of ESCR, and does so without requiring the harvesting of human beings.
