President Obama is planning to sign an executive order on Monday rolling back restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, according to sources close to the issue.
Although the exact wording of the order has not been revealed, the White House plans an 11 a.m. ceremony to sign the order repealing one of the most controversial steps taken by his predecessor, fulfilling one of Obama's eagerly anticipated campaign promises.
The move, long sought by scientists and patient advocates and opposed by religious groups, would enable the National Institutes of Health to consider requests from scientists to study hundreds of lines of cells that have been developed since the limitations were put in place -- lines that scientists and patient advocate say hold great hope for leading to cures for a host of major ailments.
That 'controversial' step by Bush wasn't exactly controversial. It allowed research to continue on the stem cell lines that had already been developed, but prevented the creation of new ones. So what did that 'controversial' move result in? Incredible progress. Back in August of last year, I blogged about two specific breakthroughs:Researchers at the government-backed National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology said they created stem cells of the type found in human embryos using the removed wisdom teeth of a 10-year-old girl.
"This is significant in two ways," team leader Hajime Ogushi told AFP. "One is that we can avoid the ethical issues of stem cells because wisdom teeth are destined to be thrown away anyway.
"Also, we used teeth that had been extracted three years ago and had been preserved in a freezer. That means that it's easy for us to stock this source of stem cells."
The announcement follows the groundbreaking discovery by US and Japanese scientists last year that they could produce stem cells from skin, a finding that was hailed by the Vatican and US President George W. Bush.
"This is significant in two ways," team leader Hajime Ogushi told AFP. "One is that we can avoid the ethical issues of stem cells because wisdom teeth are destined to be thrown away anyway.
"Also, we used teeth that had been extracted three years ago and had been preserved in a freezer. That means that it's easy for us to stock this source of stem cells."
The announcement follows the groundbreaking discovery by US and Japanese scientists last year that they could produce stem cells from skin, a finding that was hailed by the Vatican and US President George W. Bush.
And:
A team at Harvard has succeeded in directly reprogramming one type of adult cell into another, without even the need for the intermediary step of reprogramming to a pseudo-embryonic state and only then differentiating to a new developed cell type. In other words, not only do they not need embryos, they don't even need stem cells at all; they can just turn one type of cell into another directly. What's more, they've done this inside a living animal (a mouse), and not just in a laboratory dish.
These new procedures have opened the floodgates for researchers and scientists to create the same kind of stem cells that would be obtained through embryonic stem cell research, rendering the legitimately controversial and much-abhorred practice of creating embryos simply for the purpose of destroying them utterly without benefit. And, I might add, there have been literally dozens of cures and treatments created from non-embryonic stem cell research that are helping and saving lives at this very moment. How many treatments are there from embryonic research? None. Not one. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
As I said at the time, there is now absolutely no reason to continue embryonic stem cell research. Why would anyone continue a practice that is at the least undeniably questionable -- and at the worst morally repugnant to millions of people -- when there are multiple alternative ways to achieve the same scientific result? Even worse, those millions of people who equate embryonic stem cell research with murder are being forced to pay for it!
We knew this about Barack Obama. He's not just pro-choice, he's so radically pro-abortion that he supported infanticide (here, here, here) on the non-existent chance that to oppose it might possibly infringe upon Roe v. Wade. He promised Planned Parenthood that he would further the cause of tax-payer funded abortion on demand for any reason any time during the pregnancy, and now he's simply following through.
I'm going to make this personal now, because this is a critically important issue. If you call yourself a Christian or a Jew or a member of any other religion that supposedly cherishes life and views it as being a gift from God, or even if you say you value life itself, how can you still support Barack Obama? There is ample evidence in this post and its links to lay out the case that Barack Obama is a radical pro-abortionist, especially with this latest move. It will benefit no one but the abortion industry. It will force taxpayers who fervently oppose abortion to pay for millions of them each year. It will provide no cures or treatments that wouldn't otherwise be developed.
Barack Obama is furthering the Culture of Death, one unborn soul at a time.
There's my two cents.
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