Obama to End Stem Cell Ban Monday
By Amanda Gardner
SATURDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- President Barack Obama will lift the eight-year ban on embryonic stem cell research on Monday, the White House has announced.
To the other 80 million mentions of it elsewhere in the nation's alternative information sources, I will add my insignificant reminder to all and sundry that there never was a “ban” on stem-cell research.
Former President Bush merely “limited federal funding for stem cell research only to human embryonic stem cell lines that already existed.”
The denial of federal funding no more acts as a ban on stem-cell research than the failure of the U.S. Government to finance my next Hot-'n-Ready from Little Caesars qualifies as a to a ban on pizzas.
Why is this deliberate dishonesty so important to proponents of embryo-destructive technology?
Because the barely-reported successes of stem-cell technology using adult stem cells is quickly undermining all the justifications for destroying human embryos by emotional appeals to the rights of your grandmother to be cured of Alzheimer’s.
Just yesterday, for example, a scientific journal reported that adult stem cells were successfully reprogrammed back into their “embryonic,” “free of the cancer-causing viruses and genes needed to make them.” (“Cancer threat removed from stem cells, scientists say”).
Since the donor cells came from adult victims of Parkinsons's, this study is hardly going to bolster the case for embryonic-destructive research.
