As Bush Celebrates ‘Sanctity Of Human Life Day,’ NIH Official Says Stem Cell Policy Is Blocking Cure

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/

As Bush Celebrates ‘Sanctity Of Human Life Day,’ NIH Official Says Stem Cell Policy Is Blocking Cures

President Bush yesterday issued a formal White House proclamation declaring January 21 to be “National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2007.”

National Sanctity of Human Life Day helps foster a culture of life and reinforces our commitment to building a compassionate society that respects the value of every human being. …

One of our society’s challenges today is to harness the power of science to ease human suffering without sanctioning practices that violate the dignity of human life. With the right policies, we can continue to achieve scientific progress while living up to our ethical and moral responsibilities.

On the very same day, Story Landis, the National Institutes of Health official overseeing President Bush’s restrictive embryonic stem cell policy, suggested that Bush’s approach is delaying life-saving cures in “an unusually blunt assessment for an executive branch official.”

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[Olney Blue]

1. Thank you for speaking out, Story. Finally.....

[bobbolink]

2. "Sanctity of human life".... like, for instance, the couple sfxpat mentioned

She is suffering from cancer, and neither she nor her husband has had anything to eat today.

:mad:

"Sanctitiy of life" indeed!! :nuke:

REally, this needs to blow wide open!

[fooj]

3. What about our 21 dead soldiers today?

Don't they count?

[Igel]

4. That's odd.

The newspapers are quoting Landriss as saying "potential" breakthroughs.

[Bluebear]

5. kick