Again we have the majority of Congress and the American People supporting this research and Bush is preventing the will of the majority. WHY?????

NO YOU DO NOT HAVE THE MAJORITY! The "majority" do support stem cell research...but DO NOT support using the in-vitro children. Those children could be implanted in a childless woman. And get it RIGHT ...GW DOES support stem cell reasearch! And there is NOTHING stopping the private sector research from using the in-vitro. Just not with government funding.

And as to the embyonic stem cells holding such great promise...then why are ALL the major discoveries coming from ADULT stem cells. They have yet to make ANY break through with the embryonic ones.

Hundreds rally against embryonic cloning procedure at Mo. Capitol Thursday, March 8, 2007 By DAVID A. LIEB ~ The Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Hundreds of opponents of embryonic stem-cell research crammed the Capitol halls Wednesday urging a statewide election on whether to overturn a voter-approved constitutional protection for such research. Legislative proposals to put a stem-cell research amendment back on the 2008 ballot have stalled in divided House and Senate committees.

Or go read this: Link

The question of stem cells is currently the dominant subject in the debate over biotechnology and human genetics: Should we use embryonic stem cells or adult stem cells for future medical therapies? Embryonic stem cells are taken from a developing embryo at the blastocyst stage, destroying the embryo, a developing human life. Adult stem cells, on the other hand, are found in all tissues of the growing human being and, according to latest reports, also have the potential to transform themselves into practically all other cell types, or revert to being stem cells with greater reproductive capacity. Embryonic stem cells have not yet been used for even one therapy, while adult stem cells have already been successfully used in numerous patients, including for cardiac infarction (death of some of the heart tissue).

Proven wrong yet again! Besides which, no matter what you or I think or feel... we are NOT the president! And the final decision rests with him. PERIOD!

drmiler

The Congress that was elected by the people support allowing Federally Funded research using embryonic Stem cells. The issue I outlined in my Blog is that the position Bush is taking as applied to the use of stem cells that are left over from In-vitro does not make sense. These Stem cells will be destroyed at some point. The issue is using those Stem cells with the consent of the donors in federally Funded Research. The left over in-vitro cells will not be used and will be destroyed if they are not used for research. The issue is not will these left over cells become a living person only the way they are disposed of in the future. If we allow bush to have his way they will be destroyed with NO benefit to ANYONE. If we allow their use with the consent of the donors they will be destroyed with the possibility of finding cures for many diseases. Bush is trying to interject his particular religious out look and is applying his outlook in totally illogically way since his choice will still result in the destruction of the left over cells from the in-vitro process YOU HAVE NOT PROVEN WHAT I HAVE SAID WRONG!!!!!!!!!

Really? That's great! Researchers have proven that adult stem cells taken from the patient works in a lot of cases. So you believe that we should spend money looking for a cure to stuff using unproven methods just to see what they can do when other researchers have a working protocol. I think we should spend tax dollars on finding out what else can be done with adult stem cells before we dump money into something that holds promise. It is called scietific protocol exhaust the easy stuff first.



Right why worry about effectiveness when we can waste money on trial and error. There are private corporations that can do all the research they want on their dime, so it is not that there is no research using baby stem cells.



Because private industry is already doing this why does the government have to do it as well, you know duplicating the efforts.

Let's see..

Gene's articles seem to rotate between decrying the deficit spending and advocating for more spending.

Why should the federal government be spending money on this?  It's not outlawing stem cell research. It's just a law that forbids the goverment from using tax payer money for it.

If we allow bush to have his way they will be destroyed with NO benefit to ANYONE

This is a flat out and out LIE! How many times must you be told something "before" you listen? The ONLY thing GW has put a hold on is FEDERALLY FUNDED embryonic research! That does NOT stop privatly funded research from using them! And yes, this proves you wrong! As does Paladin77's last post! I swear if you get any more ignorant, they will have to put you in an institute for the mentally retarded!

but they won't, you know it very well..

And even if stem cell research made on those collected on adults is promising, there is a lot more availabilty (thu, more research opportunity) of the embryos, since the % of stem cell within an embryo is sky-higher than those on an adult.

Personnaly, between using those embryo or flushing them down the toilet in a few years, I'd say try to do something useful with them.

The ONLY thing GW has put a hold on is FEDERALLY FUNDED embryonic research! That does NOT stop privately funded research from using them! And yes, this proves you wrong!

The impact of what Bush wants to do is limit the amount of money and the pace of the research. The issue none of you address is that the Stem cells that are left over from in-vitro will be DESTROYED as medical waste. Allowing Federally Funded research using these cells will not end a SINGLE human life. That is the issue Bush and all that support his position refuse to accept.

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I favor stem cell research. But I also care about the deficit. I don't see why the federal government should be funding research like this.

dragional

If you cared about the deficit you would support higher taxes for those that can afford to pay a little more and help the deficit. Look at what Cheney and Bush paid in 2006. Cheney 22.9% and Bush 24.3%. That clearly shows the Rich are NOT being over taxed!