President Obama continued his attack today on life-saving policies instituted by previous Administrations by rescinding President George W. Bush's 2001 ban on the use of Federal Money to fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research.
The process of harvesting stem cells for this research kills the tiny days-old human being from whom the cells are pillaged. President Obama's Order will allow the use of YOUR tax payer dollars to expand this "research" and further sanction the destruction of innocent human life by the Federal Government, and it places 400,000 frozen embryos in mortal danger.
Arizona Right to Life strongly denounces this horrific decision. In addition to killing the babies from whom the stem cells are harvested, and notwithstanding the President's misleading moniker that this research is "Promising," Embryonic Stem Cell Research has never cured a single disease, despite countless attempts in privately-funded research over the past decade. In fact, it has produced numerous tumors and cell mutations in test patients.
Conversely, Adult Stem Cell Research has yielded treatments for over 70 diseases including Type-1 Diabetes, spinal cord injury and Parkinson's disease. Cord Blood Stem Cell Research and Pluripotent Stem Cell Research have shown rich potential as well. Regardless of the fact that these methods have been successful and are all non-fatal to the cell donor, and despite being in the worst recession in decades, the President has forged ahead with his morally and fiscally irresponsible insistence on the pursuit of life-ending and financially wasteful Embryonic Stem Cell Research.
Despite campaign promises to unite the country, this move comes just days after another anti-life attack in which President Obama overturned regulations protecting healthcare workers from being forced to perform procedures that violate their consciences, and in the shadows of the looming FOCA efforts. President Obama's radical policies have blatantly attacked pro-life policies and adherants, and have divided this country more than ever before.
Arizona Right to Life condemns this policy and the dangerous precipice on which it places this country. We call upon the President to carefully reevaluate the reports on previous Embryonic Stem Cell Research, the promising potential of other forms of Stem Cell Research, and the wishes of millions of concerned citizens nationwide.
Arizona Right to Life urges you to contact the White House and voice your concern over being positioned on this ominous slippery slope. We solicit your prayers and advocacy for the tinyest and most innocent among us, and for the President to adopt a radical change of heart and mind before additional lives are destroyed.
Let's think of how many Americans are suffering from ailments and what this research can do for them. I'm sure everyone reading this knows someone important to them that is affected by one of these maladies.Research in the U.S.has not progressed since earlier this decade, cures are a very long time away and lets not even discuss the approval requirement by the FDA. At least this can be seen as a huge step forward to join the rest of the world at bringing about cures that could help millions of people including you and I some day.
I think this is a great decision.I bet the same people who are against stem cell research, are the same people who think it's right to send our young men oversea's to die fighting a pointless idiotic war that was started by the same guy who put the ban on stem cell research.The amount of people this could cure and save is worth the cost.Life and death go hand in hand.Religion blinds people, science saves them.
There is a tremendous amount of ignorance regarding stem cell research and Newton has given us a full dose.
GWB was the first president in the history of the US to permit federal funds to be used on embryonic stem cell research.
Bush never put a ban on embryonic stem cell research. Any organization or individual that wanted to do such research was free to do so.
The incessant whining from the killing class was that they weren't permitted to get federal funds for their research if they went on killing little humans. They had to use embryonic stem cell lines from embroyos that had been previously killed. No new killing.
Maybe we could do some stem cell research into the condition that causes ignorant people to think of themselves so highly.
I am against embryonic stem cell research, and I am also against capital punishment and sending people out to die in senseless wars. I understand the point you're trying to make, but there's no need to stereotype all prolife people. We do not all agree on matters other than abortion. I know a few prolife people who are also against contraception, and I know several who are not. Likewise with capital punishment. Though I am against it, many prolife people support it.
We're all different.