Author Topic: Stem Cell Research (Read 497 times)

Sabre · « **Reply #15 on:** June 25, 2007, 04:48:57 PM »

The US leads the world in funding for embyonic stem cell research, outspending the UK by something like 3-to-1. The Bush administration if the FIRST to federally fund embryonic stem cell (zilch under Clinton). The only constraint placed on that funding is that no new embryos could be destroyed using Federal funds. This was a prudent decision, since as of the moment no human clinical trials have been successful using embryonic stem cells (and only one or two have even gotten approval to try, with disasterous results). Adult stem cells, on the other hand, have resulted in over a hundred human clinical trials, with a great deal of success. Actual approved treatments using ASC are now available. Moral issues asside, there is no good reason to through hundreds of millions of our tax dollars at ESC research. The only reason some are for it is because private funding is drying up (due to lack of success).

bj229r · « **Reply #16 on:** June 25, 2007, 05:12:05 PM »

Adult stem cells: 65 clinical trials on LIVE human beings, lives being saved.

Embryonic stem cells: zeeeerrrrooooo, and no promise, either. They have hit a wall with the problem of multiple tumors developing in whatever they inject the cells into.

Aside from that, if you don't ask me to fund research on murdered babies, I won't ask you to help fund Boy Scouts, kids going to religious schools, or those pesky crosses and Ten Commandments on government property, all of which seems to upset liberals so.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #17 on:** June 25, 2007, 05:14:26 PM »

Come on Sabre, you're ruining a good "Bad Bush" rant by the left!

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Stem cell research has found cures, (Adult stem cells). Embryonic stem cell research has not cured anything yet.

At this point the topic is strictly a partisan divider from one party to the other, to make them look bad in the public eye.

Whoops, I guess I am too.

AKIron · « **Reply #18 on:** June 25, 2007, 07:15:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Mickey1992
California voters approved the funding specifically for the research.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6384390/

I'd vote for funding research on stem cell removal from living liberals.

Hap · « **Reply #19 on:** June 25, 2007, 09:23:50 PM »

The issue isn't stem cells.

It's the embryonic ones.

It's called Fishing with Embryos financed by the Fed.

I'm against it.

JB73 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 25, 2007, 10:19:51 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Stem cell research has found cures, (Adult stem cells). Embryonic stem cell research has not cured anything yet.

At this point the topic is strictly a partisan divider from one party to the other, to make them look bad in the public eye.

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Originally posted by bj229r
Adult stem cells: 65 clinical trials on LIVE human beings, lives being saved.

Embryonic stem cells: zeeeerrrrooooo, and no promise, either. They have hit a wall with the problem of multiple tumors developing in whatever they inject the cells into.

Aside from that, if you don't ask me to fund research on murdered babies, I won't ask you to help fund Boy Scouts, kids going to religious schools, or those pesky crosses and Ten Commandments on government property, all of which seems to upset liberals so.

some people get it, others just jump up and down hearing the phrase "stem cell" without knowing a single fact on it.

kudos to you 2 for knowing the truth and attempting (however futile it may seem) to spread the word

lazs2 · « **Reply #21 on:** June 26, 2007, 08:54:43 AM »

yes.. kalifornia voters did vote to impose more taxes on each other to give to the government so that they could "fund" stem cell research. kalifornians vote to tax themselves on any number of things every day. It is good that we are such a large state with ports and farmland abundant that we can afford to lower the income of our citizens with higher taxes.

lazs