President Shrub
30-07-2005, 00:03
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8754913/
"As we know, adult stem cell research is not controversial on ethical grounds -- while embryonic stem cell research is. Right now, to derive embryonic stem cells, an embryo -- which many, including myself, consider nascent human life -- must be destroyed. But I also strongly believe -- as do countless other scientists, clinicians, and doctors -- that embryonic stem cells uniquely hold specific promise for some therapies and potential cures that adult stem cells cannot provide.
I’ll come back to that later. Right now, though, let me say this: I believe today -- as I believed and stated in 2001, prior to the establishment of current policy -- that the federal government should fund embryonic stem cell research. And as I said four years ago, we should federally fund research only on embryonic stem cells derived from blastocysts leftover from fertility therapy, which will not be implanted or adopted but instead are otherwise destined by the parents with absolute certainty to be discarded and destroyed." - Sen. Bill Frist
You've come a long way, Bill. Running for Prez? I wonder... Perhaps he knows that the American people are not all Christian fundies afterall...
This is the same guy that said, in his opinion "as a doctor," Terri Schiavo was alive and conscious. Now, that says two things:
#1. He isn't credible.
#2. The Republican party, yet again, cannot stay unified.
And this is a big deal, because he's the Senate Majority Leader.
"As we know, adult stem cell research is not controversial on ethical grounds -- while embryonic stem cell research is. Right now, to derive embryonic stem cells, an embryo -- which many, including myself, consider nascent human life -- must be destroyed. But I also strongly believe -- as do countless other scientists, clinicians, and doctors -- that embryonic stem cells uniquely hold specific promise for some therapies and potential cures that adult stem cells cannot provide.
I’ll come back to that later. Right now, though, let me say this: I believe today -- as I believed and stated in 2001, prior to the establishment of current policy -- that the federal government should fund embryonic stem cell research. And as I said four years ago, we should federally fund research only on embryonic stem cells derived from blastocysts leftover from fertility therapy, which will not be implanted or adopted but instead are otherwise destined by the parents with absolute certainty to be discarded and destroyed." - Sen. Bill Frist
You've come a long way, Bill. Running for Prez? I wonder... Perhaps he knows that the American people are not all Christian fundies afterall...
This is the same guy that said, in his opinion "as a doctor," Terri Schiavo was alive and conscious. Now, that says two things:
#1. He isn't credible.
#2. The Republican party, yet again, cannot stay unified.
And this is a big deal, because he's the Senate Majority Leader.