The descent toward Hell continues for America, led by President Obama. Reversing an executive order of George W. Bush's that restricted the use of embryonic stem cells for research to around 20 existing "lines" of them, Obama has created a storm of activity using new lines of embryos. According to the Washington Post today, scientists are falling all over themselves to get at the new lines, with almost 300 lines submitted for approval.
"This is the first down payment on what is going to be a much longer list that will empower the scientific community to explore the potential of embryonic stem cell research," said NIH Director Francis S. Collins. "Today's announcement is the first wave."
"We've been waiting with bated breath to get started," said George Daley, a stem cell researcher at Children's Hospital in Boston
"This is what we've been waiting for," said Amy Comstock Rick of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, which has been leading the lobbying effort to loosen the federal restrictions. "We're very excited."
This is so wrong on so many levels. First, these are human lives they are experimenting on. They have to destroy human lives for their research. Second, these are federal dollars, my money and your money, being used to pay the scientists to do the research/killing. Third, not a single successful treatment has ever emerged from all the research done on embryonic stem cells, despite gigantic amounts of money being spent on this research. All the breakthrough treatments have come from adult stem cell research, to which no one has any objection.
And the icing on the cake, as if all that weren't enough, is that this research is totally unnecessary now that scientists have learned how to synthesize them from adult stem cells. A couple of years ago, scientists trying to figure out how to research embryonic stem cells without killing human beings discovered how to "reprogram" adult stem cells to behave exactly like embryonic ones. So using actual embryos is totally and completely unnecessary. This is one area (of many) where President Obama and his leftist friends in the Congress, who claim to be all about "science" driving all their decisions, in this case are completely ignoring the science - for what reason I have no idea - in favor of doing things the original way, which is morally wrong and scientifically unnecessary.
Once again, President Obama shows his true colors and supports the wanton destruction of innocent human life. It's reprehensible; indefensible; repugnant; not to mention gravely sinful. He and all these idiot scientists who are so giddy at the prospect of being able to rip up human embryos - on federal taxpayers' dimes - are headed straight to Gehenna.
Conservatives are making a huge stink about the possibility that abortions could be funded with tax dollars in the new health care legislation. Can't we muster up some strong opposition to using the same dollars for this, which is just as bad?
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