WP: Stem Cell Legislation Is at Risk (because of possible new techniques)

[DeepModem Mom]

Sorry, but are we governed by crazy people? These "culture-of-lifers," IMO, have some curious priorities.


Stem Cell Legislation Is at Risk
Backers Say Promise of New Techniques Threatens Senate Bill's Passage

By Ceci Connolly and Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, July 9, 2005; Page A03


Promising but still unproven new approaches to creating human embryonic stem cells have suddenly jeopardized what once appeared to be certain Senate passage of a bill to loosen President Bush's four-year-old restrictions on human embryo research.

The techniques are enticing to many conservative activists and scientists because they could yield medically valuable human embryonic stem cells without the creation or destruction embryos.

Embryonic stem cells are coveted because they have the capacity to become virtually every kind of body tissue and perhaps repair ailing organs, but they are controversial because days-old human embryos must be destroyed to retrieve them.

"The new science that may involve embryo research but not require destruction of an embryo is tremendously exciting," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said recently. "It would get you outside of the boundaries of the ethical constraints."

But because the value of these new scientific methods remains speculative, they have complicated the political calculus in the highly partisan Senate, which could take up the issue as early as next week....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070801817.html

[goclark]

1. If Billy F. likes it , we know it is junk

If it isn't junk - I will forgive myself for saying that Bill is a clown!!!

[givemebackmycountry]

2. HEY! Leave Frist alone....

What's the matter with you?
Don't you know that he watched an hour long videotape, before he decided that this was "tremendously exciting" and that this "new science" would get you outside of the ethical constraints?

:sarcasm:


This is such bullshit.
Just another fundy roadblock to stop the inevitable.

[Coastie for Truth]

3. Roscoe Bartlett gives it some credibility

but not enough to overcome Mister Frist's lack of credibility.

[DanCa]

4. Another day with parkinson's I spit on prolife.

The embryo lovers dont care about how much pain I am in. I cant work cant support my self, I can barely stand when the wether gets bad or I do to much physical activity the day before. They dont even want me in some of thier churches to pray for a cure. Wonder what's next banning microscopes?

Hmm you know I have a question for the embryo lovers out there you and I are made up of carbon atoms. Are we killing things when we bbq with charcoal or wear diamonds or use carbon paper? Or where or amore pertinent question was where where you guys this morning at three o clock this monring when i had to crawl from my bed to the rest room and had problems cleanning myself? I spit on prolife .

[DeepModem Mom]

6. You are a perfect example, DanCa, of the real "life" I had in mind...

when I added comments, which I rarely do, when I posted this news article. I am so sorry for your pain and suffering, and I pray that things turn around in our country soon -- for you, and others who suffer, as my mother did for many years, with Alzheimer's disease.

[ChrisK]

5. So?..Pass the bill now and see what comes later.

If this new scientific method turns out to be stable and worth wild then use it...Till then let's use what we have and stop trying to pretend to care about embryos.

Why do people like Senator Frist hold unstable life like an embryo in higher regard then the lives of people that are living right now? Because he is a Doctor? No, no Doctor worth his/her degree or love for people would put an embryo before a fully developed human.

We can only hope the majority in the House and Senate can look passed the make-believe "ethical constraints" and see what good a bill like this will do for millions of people.

One can hope, right?

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Of course, ChrisK -- going ahead and passing the bill now...

would be what sane people would do, wouldn't it?