WI Repukes want to make fetal stem cell research illegal(40 year old cells)

[RamboLiberal]

Now these supposedly "fighting-for-jobs" Republicans are trying to criminalize a form of research which may one day cure Lou Gehrig's disease.

Why? Fetal cell research uses tissues from an aborted fetus.

I cannot imagine anybody really wanting an abortion; it is a desperate last-ditch emergency. The Supreme Court decided long ago to make the process illegal after the point of viability. Once a child can live outside the womb, (roughly the 20th week) according to American law, that is a human being, receiving full protection under law. Until that point, it is a woman's right to choose if she wants to terminate her pregnancy; it is her business, not mine, and not the government's.

But if there is an abortion, should we criminalize any good coming from it?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/don-c-reed/ab-214-wisconsin-bill_b_971495.html

Recently, a bill (2011 Assembly Bill 214) has been introduced by a number of Wisconsin representatives that would make the use of these fetal cells by biomedical researchers and the biotechnology industry a criminal offense in Wisconsin. The rationale for this antagonistic stance is that the tissues used to produce the original HEK293, WI-38 and MRC-5 cells were isolated from fetuses obtained from legally terminated pregnancies over 40 years ago.

Although many find abortion morally unjustifiable, it is important to realize that the original pregnancy terminations were not carried out with the intent to produce cell lines, vaccines or therapeutics. Rather, these cells were generated after the fact, from fetuses that were no longer alive.

The generation of the cells and their use to save millions of lives is morally distinct from the original abortions. Indeed, this argument has led many pro-life advocates, including Edward Furton of the National Catholic Bioethics Center as well as the St. Louis Archdiocesan Pro-Life Office, to support the use of vaccines produced in these cells.

If AB 214 is enacted, it will not reverse the original decision to terminate three pregnancies. It will, however, jeopardize future health care advances, decimate biomedical research within the state, lead to substantial job losses and a significant "brain drain" from Wisconsin and cost us hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding and biomedical commerce.



http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/129764063.html

[Yon_Yonson]

1. Stem cell research Illegal? That’s pretty good for a NEOCON gang of lawbreakers.

The NEOCON RAT TURD’S policy is to kill everything and anything except the fetus!

[midnight]

2. This is one area that Mayor Tom Barrett was really progressive on..

It is a shame that he is not in the Gov. mansion...