Spending tax dollars to fund embrionic stem cell research
and yet all gung ho spending BILLIONS & BILLIONS to kill
Iraqi's and Americans in Iraq?
2006-10-25 11:40:18 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Because it is more fun to kill people than to save them!
2006-10-25 11:42:04 · answer #1 · answered by daydoom 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Embryonic stem cell research, at least according to the religious right, is considered a destruction of life, more specifically life that hasn't even been created yet. Soldiers over in Iraq, on the other hand, have and hopefully will live their life. Why we're over there, I can't answer, but I hope that's enough for you.
2006-10-25 11:45:37 · answer #2 · answered by ldnester 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
How should I know, I'm just in lock-step with our beloved president. I'm proud to say that I'm committed to blindly following our President.
Damn it girl, stay the course, don't cut and run or the terrorists will get ya.
Did you know that the prez had a C average while at Yale. That's pretty good, even though it was a gentleman's c average. Thank goodness he has the right bloodline or he would have never made it in to Yale. Heck, he probably would have ended up in some Texas community college and then selling propane and propane accessories.
2006-10-25 11:58:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The fact is that adult stem cells have already produced remarkable cures, whereas embryonic stem cells have failed. This should come as no great surprise to anyone with a background in high school biology. When an embryo is created by the union of the sperm and egg, the cells begin to divide, creating embryonic stem cells from which all future tissues and organs are derived. Within days, the embryonic cells differentiate into three cell layers - ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm. Cells in these layers continue to differentiate into tissues and organs. As the embryo matures into a fetus, child, and adult, some undifferentiated cells of the three types remain in various tissues such as bone marrow, fat, skin and olfactory tissue.
These adult stem cells are multipotent: they have the ability to turn into a variety of types of tissues. Successful stem cell therapies cause the DNA in the adult stem cells to further differentiate into more specific types of cells. There is no point in getting the adult stem cell to turn into a less differentiated type of cell, or using the more primitive embryonic stem cells. This would be going backward, in the opposite direction of providing a clinically useful therapy. Difficulties abound with proposed embryonic stem cell therapies. The growth of the more primitive embryonic stem cells is more difficult to control and leads to tumor formation. Recent research suggests brain tumors may result. Additionally, the use of embryonic tissue foreign to the patient can potentially lead to problems with immune rejection of tissue, a problem not encountered in using a patient's own adult stem cells.
America is the most formidable medical research center in the world, but it is far from alone in pursuing the potential of adult stem cells. The worldwide effort is impressive and growing. For non-adult stem cell research, a morally unquestionable alternative source exists: stem cells drawn from umbilical cord blood. Already a bank exists in Dubai collecting cord blood stem cells.
2006-10-25 11:45:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-25 20:40:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stem cell research will save lives once the science is developed.
Neocons should be ashamed to spend 400 billion in Iraq to fund a war that is unpopular.......then try to deny stem cell research funding.
2006-10-25 11:46:07 · answer #6 · answered by Villain 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Republicans are generally against their money going towards society's decisions of what or who needs help. They'd rather have the freedom to spend their money on what *they* in their superior wisdom think needs help... though they usually just give it to someone like Pat Robertson instead, if they give it at all...
2006-10-25 11:53:15 · answer #7 · answered by romulusnr 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
FACTS! We are funding Non Embryonic stem cell research all day long and it has given us results and cures.
FACTS! Embryonic stems cell research according to the doctors have not produced jack, and doctors are quite disappointed in the results.
Do some homework.
2006-10-25 11:44:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
This gives them another excuse to declare wars with India and China for stealing R&D jobs from U.S.
2006-10-25 11:59:26 · answer #9 · answered by HOMER 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they are hypocrites that espouse a "culture of life", but only if your talking about undeveloped collections of cells incapable of surviving without a host; Yet they treat soldiers, death row inmates and citizen casualties of war as disposible.
2006-10-25 11:48:58 · answer #10 · answered by Tara P 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's the whole "conservative" feeding the "religous" standpoints. As long as theirs repubs in the White House, stem cells won't be allowed in the US.
2006-10-25 11:42:42 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋