Bush Tells Sick And Ailing: Drop Dead!: Bill Press

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Bush Tells Sick And Ailing: Drop Dead!
July 20, 2006
http://billpress.com/columns.html


And today there are those who oppose embryonic stem-cell research — led by Idiot-in-Chief George W. Bush. No matter how you look at it, President Bush’s veto of legislation expanding stem-cell research is wrong, wrong, wrong. He’s wrong on his facts, wrong on his science and wrong on his morality.


Indeed, scientists recently responded angrily to top White House aid Karl Rove’s assertion that researchers have found “far more promise from adult stem cells than from embryonic stem cells.” According to Dr. Michael Clarke, associate director of stem-cell research at Stanford University and an expert in adult stem cells, “Rove’s statement is just not true.” Asked to provide the names of scientists who shared Rove’s views on the superior promise of adult stem cells, the White House could not name one.


But, more important, equating research on a microscopic cluster of primitive cells that are unable to survive outside a Petri dish for more than a couple of days with the murder of “innocent human life” is simply absurd. It not only cheapens all human life, it also proves the total illogic of Bush’s position. After all, if embryonic stem-cell research really is murder, why does he allow it to continue, so long as it’s privately funded? And why doesn’t he shut down every fertility clinic in the country? By his wacky definition, they’re nothing but death camps.

Bush just doesn’t get it. Embryos not used for research are going to be destroyed anyway. They’re going to be thrown out with the garbage. They’re never going to live. They’re never going to develop into an embryo, fetus or baby. They’re destined only to be burned with the rest of the day’s medical trash. The only critical question is: What to do with 400,000 frozen embryos? Toss them in the dumpster along with the coffee grinds, orange peels and empty beer bottles? Or allow medical researchers to use them to save perhaps millions of lives?

It is George W. Bush who is choosing to destroy embryos, rather than let scientists put them to work. And, by making that choice, he has, indeed, crossed a moral boundary. Crushing the hopes of millions of Americans and their families for a miracle cure is cruel, heartless, un-Christian and immoral.

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1. But, but what about

the snowflake babies?

:rofl:

[elehhhhna]

2. snowflake babies: each is unique and they're all white.

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4. I heard Brownback say 'snowflake babies'

and I laughed out loud, just knowing that either Stewart or Colbert would nail him for that. LOL

:rofl:

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3. Sometimes Bill Press pi**es me off, but this time he's right on!

I've heard the same statements from several other Dems. If you're really against using the unused embryos for research, then STOP fertility clinics!

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5. that would be stopping business/capitalism

then STOP fertility clinics!

[napi21]

6. So the stem cell research isn't part of Capitalism?

Hell, it's a GIFT to the medical community to fund it!