Bush supports H.R. 534. Illegalizes Stem Cell Research. (SCNT) Help plz!

[Seldona]

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Why is George W. Bush Trying to Send America's Best Medical Researchers to Jail?

What can you do about it?

That's right, jail. George W. Bush is trying to get a law passed that would imprison and heavily fine any researcher, doctor or patient who uses a new medical procedure called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to treat a debilitating illness. H.R. 534, the bill that George W. Bush supports, has already been passed by a mostly Republican coalition in the House of Representatives and is moving through the Senate. Even going to another country where the procedure is legal for purposes of treatment may be criminal next year if Mr. Bush and his allies in Congress get their way.

What sort of dastardly act merits this kind of punishment? Are these researchers, doctors and patients part of some nefarious plot to traffic in human organs? Would the procedure harm or violate the rights of any adult, child, infant or fetus? Is SCNT some kind of quackery outside of mainstream science?

No, no, and no.

The promise in SCNT lies simply in taking cells from a patient's own body and creating stem cell cultures (not organs or babies) matching that patient's genetic code. In this way, flexible medical treatment may be possible without risk of auto-immune rejection. With proper research, SCNT has the capability to soon play a crucial role in the treatment of degenerative diseases, spinal cord injuries and even cancers. This potential is not theoretical: SCNT has recently been demonstrated by researchers to cure Parkinson's disease in animal tests.

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More at: http://irregulartimes.com/stemcell.html

Sign the petition supporting SCNT and denouncing H.R. 534 here: http://www.stemcellhelp.org/

Only 2,701 people signed so far! Please help.

Thanks.

Edited for title and number of signatories.

[NMDemDist2]

1. done and kick

:kick:

may I suggest you change the headline? and ask for help


it looks like W is supporting research the way you have it posted

[Seldona]

2. Thanks

Done.

[NC_Nurse]

3. I signed

and wrote them a little note about science versus science fiction, which is the s*** this administration is peddling!:mad:

[Seldona]

6. I signed too.

I was appalled at this measure.

What is astounding is that this doesn't involve tissue other than your own!

How can anyone be against this?

Let alone making the research, or going overseas for treatments, illegal?

To me, this is just the final brick in the wall.

These people are insane.

[Hippo_Tron]

4. Fuck Bush

I bet if he was born with birth defects he'd have a different opinion on the subject.

[Deja Q]

5. That filthy TRAITOR goes way too far.

He can make his own happy fascist state in America, but he dare not force other countries to keel to him or they will respond. They're only going to go so far... but then * will use his "Bush Doctrine" to pre-emptively wipe them out, I guess... I put nothing beyond him* anymore.

Worse, the fact that people who go overseas to get treatment to only come back to get hauled off to jail?

"President" Apostate* has gone off the deep end. Well, he had long ago but he's really pulling out the punches the last couple of months and I will be expecting even worse things to come out as time goes by.

(edit: Not just President Apostate*, but traitor to all humankind. Does he want to look like he's the anti-christ? He says he's doing the work of God, yet his actions are the diametric opposite of what he says!)

[Dark]

7. Signed.

GOD I hate Bu$h.