Alter on Stem Cell Research...Make them sign a pledge ...

[rasputin1952]

As if we needed any more proof, President Bush’s recent veto of an embryonic-stem-cell research bill shows that the issue has now been fully politicized. So the question is, which party will exploit it better? Because three quarters of the public now supports this promising research, Republicans want to play the whole thing down. Democrats want to play it up. One way for Democrats (or “pro-cure” Republicans) to dramatize the issue is with what I call the no-stem pledge

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The actual written pledge (patterned on Norquist’s) could include language something like this: “Because of my strong opposition to embryonic-stem-cell research, I hereby pledge that should I, at any point in the future, develop diabetes, cancer, spinal-cord injuries or Parkinson’s, among other diseases, I will refuse any and all treatments derived from such research, at home or abroad, even if it costs me my life. Signed, ______”

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More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14079538/site/newsweek/


This one great idea. I just wonder how many wouold actually sign such a "Pledge"?

:D

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Excellent idea

I'd sign it if I believed that way. But I don't. It really is putting your money where your mouth is.

[rasputin1952]

4. I have to wonder if any of these spineless Congresscritters came down

w/say Parkinsons, and a cure was found in Europe by Stem Cell Research, would they suffer the ravages of said disease, or hop on the next flight to say, Denmark, to be treated?

My money would be on the flight to find treatment. But the citizenry of the US would be left to languish in the misery of their absurd decision to hold back research that could have alleviated their situation.

All of this, while thinking of the 400,000+ zygotes tossed into the trash, because someone thought they might have a soul at the 16 cell level.

Can't use those cells to alleviate suffering, but tossing them in the toilet is 'fine'. I need a couple of aspirin...:eyes:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. I agree.

It's the tossing down the drain that bothers me. Maybe if they did some kind of ceremony or something before they used them it would satisfy the fundies.

[berni_mccoy]

2. He stole my idea! ===>

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/berni_mccoy/37




(note: I'm being funny, I'm not the only one who had this thought)

[rasputin1952]

3. LOL...Great minds think alike...but Alter has name recognition and

access to major media doors...:D

[Lindacooks]

6. Yep - mine too!

And it's a fabulous idea. It would salve the 'consciences' of these right wing whackos so they think they're acting correctly, while saving lives of those who deserve it.