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Once again, President Bush has endangered Americans by placing the desires of his nutty right wing base over reality and common sense. The president had the opportunity to jumpstart research to potentially cure fatal diseases affecting the lives of real people. Instead, he vetoed their hopes and immorally chose to let people suffer. Why? To irrationally save clumps of cells that could fit on the tip of a pin. So much for his claim to be pro-life! The moment people are actually born, the President stops caring about them.
What's even more unconscionable, is that the cell clumps in question were slated to be thrown in the trash anyway - so the President's claim of protecting life is pure ideological garbage.
If Democrats are smart, they will tie this to the Terri Schiavo incident to show that the GOP is guided by a bunch of snoops and scolds who want to dictate how people live from cradle to grave.
Hats off, by the way, to Republicans who stood up to the extremists and voted to save people instead of indulge in cruel and inhumane right-to-life fantasy politics.
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And once again the best and the brightest will go to other countries to do this research and those nations will reap the benefits. Meanwhile our parallel-universe president "protects" a clump of cells while at the same time being responsible for the slaughter and maiming of hundreds of thousands of human beings.
posted by Anonymous, at
7/20/2006 11:31 AM
Tony Snow said that the administration won't get involved in stem cell research because the President thinks it's murder. However, the Administration doesn't care if Private industry develops new drugs and cures with their research. It's all about money!
posted by Anonymous, at
7/20/2006 12:30 PM
Tony Snow, the White House Press Secretary, when explaining the Bush position stated "The simple answer is he thinks murder is wrong." As I've thought about Snow's message, it seems obvious to me that it was crafted to appeal to those on the religious right who are vehemently opposed to abortion. It is another clear example of the Rove strategy...which is to deliver a carefully crafted message to each constituency in order to solidify their support and motivate them for the upcoming election.
To see the stem cell debate explained with visuals and how the political argument put forth by the President is ultimately an absurd manipulation of the facts...link here:
Just as the argument against gay marriage suggests that it will just be a stepping stone to poligamy, incest and beasiality, the argument against stem cell research suggests that it is a stepping stone to embryo creation for harvesting organs. When are these people going to stop taking everything to extremes? These are cells that will be destroyed, not adopted. How can there be such an argument against using these embryos for the purposes of saving lives and protecting quality of life.
Are they really so stupid and brainwashed? And these people are running this country. Scary.
posted by jekelhyde, at
7/20/2006 7:53 PM
Just as the argument against gay marriage suggests that it will just be a stepping stone to poligamy, incest and beasiality, the argument against stem cell research suggests that it is a stepping stone to embryo creation for harvesting organs. When are these people going to stop taking everything to extremes? These are cells that will be destroyed, not adopted. How can there be such an argument against using these embryos for the purposes of saving lives and protecting quality of life.
Are they really so stupid and brainwashed? And these people are running this country. Scary.
posted by jekelhyde, at
7/20/2006 7:54 PM
