NC lawmaker proposes stemcell center; opponent says "Don't kill babies"

[Bluebear]

Charlotte, NC (LifeNews.com) -- A North Carolina lawmaker wants the state to be the next to spend taxpayer funds on stem cell research, including embryonic research that destroys human life. Rep. Earl Jones, a Greensboro Democrat, has sponsored a measure that seeks to use $10 million in funding from the state's tobacco settlement.

The funds are supposed to be used for providing health care for state residents, but Jones wants some of the money to go to scientists conducting stem cell research.

"North Carolina could be the leader in the South on stem cell research," Jones told the Greensboro News-Record newspaper.

However, many pro-life advocates told the House Health Committee on Thursday that they oppose Jones' bill because some of their tax money could be directed to embryonic stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos to obtain the cells.

Theresa Eagle, a Greensboro resident who has rheumatoid arthritis said, "I don't want one baby to die just so I can live."

http://www.lifenews.com/bio1109.html

[HockeyMom]

1. They were never become babies in a freezer

These embryos are the couples PROPERTY to do with them as they so choose. These couples cannot be forced to donate them to stem cell research, but they also cannot be forced to have them implanted in the woman or forced to give them up to that Snowflake agency.

It is the couples who are consenting to have these embryos washed down the sinks, that will be the ones who will donate to stem cell research. Why can't these people understand this?

[Bluebear]

2. Fundy misinformation as to what constitutes a baby?

I saw a post that says "Stem cell research stops a beating heart!" People have no scientific knowledge about this; then again, it is the aim to negate science for a lot of these folks.

[neverforget]

3. Science? Who needs science when I have the Bible! It'll cure me!

:sarcasm: :banghead: :eyes:

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Pretty soon we won''t have doctors anymore.. just ritual healing prayers

[HockeyMom]

5. You no now these religious pharmacists refusing

not only birth control pills, but also mood stabilizers and pain medication.

PRAY and your bipolar symptoms or pain will all go away. Better yet, send your MONEY to Reverend So and So and he will cure you of all your ailments. ROFL

[Arkana]

6. Wow. That's twisted.

But it's framing--and people buy it. It's the crux of the entire anti-choice argument.