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Court Rules Against Stem Cell Policy
An anonymous reader sends this quote from Reuters:
"A US district court issued a preliminary injunction Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration's new guidelines on the sensitive issue. The court ruled in favor of a suit filed in June by researchers who said human embryonic stem cell research involves the destruction of human embryos. Judge Royce Lamberth granted the injunction after finding that the lawsuit would likely succeed because the guidelines violated law banning the use of federal funds to destroy human embryos. '(Embryonic stem cell) research is clearly research in which an embryo is destroyed,' Lamberth wrote in a 15-page ruling."
Funny, I'd have thought it was not one of the first post^W things Obama's administration had promised.
I think it's time we start recording public policy votes and prohibit use of technology by individuals who opposed it! I'm tired of these hypocrites.
The US federal government spending 700 billion this year to destroy really, really old embryos. Why discriminate?
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This is Christians. They don't understand that something may be human and alive, yet does not constitute human life.
Like, for example, blood in a bag.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
I'm glad this happened. Now the embryos can be thrown away, like they're supposed to be.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
Spoken like a true sexist.
What is the basis for making murder ilegal? Isn't that based on a religious belief? Please explain why killing a person and killing a cow are different without using metaphysical(religious) reasoning.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
Funny you don't mention the 4,000,000 barrels of carcinogen-causing oil or millions of gallons of corexit that were recently dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. Where is the moral outrage about that and all the "as yet unborn" who will be affected for decades to come? Far more than have been generated in "rogue" stem cell labs?
How can you profess morality, when you are so willing to distort reality to make your "moral" point?
if some are correct and developmental channeling that leads all cells from being "stem cells" to becoming differentiated can be reversed to some degree given the proper manipulations, then all cells have this "potential". Consequently, anything that leads to any kind of cell death is "taking a potential life". Just brushing your teeth would makes you guilty of murder by your version of morality. Granting cells "rights" because of their potential leads to all sorts of absurdities. If not, then it is my right to sue the government for not having you arrested for brushing your teeth. After all, you are killing diploid cells when you do so.
But what makes it so silly is that the same people who oppose this very often approve of the destruction of human life on the grand scale in the form of war, executions or by standing idly by when when those less fortunate than themselves die in misery.
Well yeah. "Life is sacred" only applies until birth. After that, fuck you, you're on your own. ;)