What the Democrats Don’t Want You to Hear
ByEmbryonic Stem Cell Research (ESCR) has become one of the hot-button issues of the mid-term elections (I, personally, am ambivalent on the issue, my only concern is that low-income women may be exploited for their eggs). The Democrats have been exploiting this issue by making promises the ESCR will provide cures for a number of debilitating diseases, with little evidence to support this, and falsely making it seem that the Bush administration has banned research, rather than just limiting federal funding. Though we hear every day about the ESCR debate, and every tiny little development in ESCR research is widely reported on, we rarely hear from mainstream media about the advancements in non-embryonic stem cell research. Recently, scientists in Britain were able to produce human liver tissue using umbilical cord blood, a story that was little reported by US media.
For more on the breakthrough in England and the failure of mainstream media to report it, Wesley J. Smith has a very informative article in The Daily Standard. Also, check out his blog.
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2 Comments
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Nice post Jen.
I personally have complained about how cord blood doesn’t get the same attention. My wife and I banked my son’s cord blood with Via Cord and get the success of their research every quarter.
It’s just as affective without having to discard a human embryo.
The truth about embryonic stem cell research is that Democrats are afraid if it is band it gives abortion opponents something to use to over turn Roe V. Wade. It’s the same reason why they’re vehemently against convicting people who kill a pregnant women with a double murder.
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Ok, first of all, THERE IS NO BAN, it is just a restriction on federal funds.
The Democrats are not worried stem cell research will lead to the overturning of Roe V. Wade, they are just capitalizing on the issue and playing on peoples emotions by telling them Republicans will prevent scientists from finding a cure for Alztheimers, and it is working.
The Republicans are guilty of a similar tactic with gay marriage, playing on people’s homophobia to get the religious right (which I am proudly NOT a part of) to the polls.
Personally, I would like to see the election turn to more important issues like national security and the economy.
On another note,how hilarious is it that the leader of the Evangelicals and outspoken opponent of gay marriage had to resign over allegations he frequented a male hooker?