RIGHT ON! Obama lifts Bush restrictions on stem cell research

[rational thinker]

http://www.reuters.com/article/CHMMFG/idUSN0936136620090309

Besides the closing of Gitmo, another positive thing he has done.

 

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[dannno]

"We will lift the ban on federal funding for promising embryonic stem cell research."

He isn't lifting restrictions, he is beginning the federal funding of..

 

[zach]

"We will lift the ban on federal funding for promising embryonic stem cell research."

He isn't lifting restrictions, he is beginning the federal funding of..

So he'll start funding restrictions? What will that do?

 

[gls]

I don't see how this is a good thing. The federal government should not be involved in this arena at all.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

I don't see how this is a good thing. The federal government should not be involved in this arena at all.

+1

 

[ItsTime]

Yes! I get to pay for the research of something then once they make massive break through (using my tax dollars) I will pay more than anyone in the world for the treatment! YES we can give more big business welfare!

 

[angelatc]

http://www.reuters.com/article/CHMMFG/idUSN0936136620090309

Besides the closing of Gitmo, another positive thing he has done.

There wasn't a ban on stem cell research. There was only a ban on federally funding such research.

It isn't a good thing. The most promising research to date has come from adult cells.

This won't advance science, only an agenda.

 

[Feenix566]

The government shouldn't be funding research at all. It should all be handled by private organizations.

 

[fletcher]

Since when is more unconstitutional spending a good thing?

 

[LibertyEagle]

there wasn't a ban on stem cell research. There was only a ban on federally funding such research.

It isn't a good thing. The most promising research to date has come from adult cells.

This won't advance science, only an agenda.

qft

 

[Golding]

This stem cell saga serves to show the importance of coming to the right conclusion via the right reasoning. Bush opposed federal funding to stem cell research because the hypothetical ethical issues conflicted with his religious beliefs. That set up the false argument of science being "forbidden" by opposition to religion. The image that stem cell research was "banned" in the United States was pervasive, but inaccurate.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

i don't see how this is a good thing. The federal government should not be involved in this arena at all.

+1776

 

[RonPaulMania]

http://www.reuters.com/article/CHMMFG/idUSN0936136620090309

Besides the closing of Gitmo, another positive thing he has done.

You call yourself a rational thinker? Honestly, I'm laughing thinking about your statement and "rational thinker" together.

 

[rational thinker]

You call yourself a rational thinker? Honestly, I'm laughing thinking about your statement and "rational thinker" together.

Of course you would. You are a Christian fundamentalist, after all. What else would anyone expect?

 

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[rational thinker]

You know what, I had it coming with choosing the moniker "rational thinker." Anyone who opposes any argument I make on here will always go for my name and I'm quite sick of it. Though I had it coming, is there anyway I can change my username? Or do I have to make a new account?

 

[A. Havnes]

There wasn't a ban on stem cell research. There was only a ban on federally funding such research.

It isn't a good thing. The most promising research to date has come from adult cells.

This won't advance science, only an agenda.

Exactly! Regardless of what anyone believes about the ethics of this research, it shouldn't be federally funded.

 

[rational thinker]

Exactly! Regardless of what anyone believes about the ethics of this research, it shouldn't be federally funded.

While that is true, I'd rather have something like this (aka science) funded than other programs which still exist to be funded.

It's better to have all federal funding abandoned, but that's not likely to happen.

So I am joyous to the fact that at least it was stem cell research that was supported.

 

[BarryDonegan]

im not sure how i feel about embryonic stem cell research. with abortion on demand, what happens if the companies who sell the fetuses to the researchers start paying women to get pregnant and abort in order to get more embryos...

abortion industrial complex is what will happen if both are simultaneously legal and there is a profiting company who needs abortion to stay afloat.

what if they form a powerful lobby and block birth control improvements via the FDA?

IDK, this situation is a little hairy to me.

im down with science, but this seems dangerous.