WI Repukes want to make fetal stem cell research illegal (Fetuses aborted 40 yrs ago!)

[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

[Warpy]

1. Fetal cells are already differentiated and good luck separating them

from the rest of what's in that collection jar: maternal cells, maternal blood, saline, what have you. In addition, the cells start to die quickly when they've been evacuated so they'd have to be separated out and frozen quickly and I don't see your average Planned Parenthood going to that kind of trouble. The evacuation products get sent to the medical waste disposal facility when the container gets full. Period.

The research that is likely to produce results is on the blastocyst, a mass of undifferentiated cells arranged into a microscopic hollow ball. These cells haven't had their special functions switched on as yet and therefore can become anything in a recipient's body.

This is why medically ignorant male lawyers in government have no business making medical law beyond making sure facilities are staffed with medical professionals. They have absolutely no clue what really transpires and their preachers are lying to every single one of them about it.

I don't know where in the bible it said Christians could tell outrageous lies even if they think it's for a good cause. The whole lot of them should be deeply ashamed.

As for this law, it will do exactly nothing because those are not the cells being used in research to cure illness.

[muntrv]

2. WI repukes love big gubmint.