From here:
LONDON (AP) — Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.
And eliminating the need to kill embryos, as well.
For years now, the pro-abortion crowd’s mantra is that we need embryonic stem cell research to cure diseases. The Democratic Party Platform, to this day, reads:
Pursue embryonic stem cell research
Pres. Bush has rejected the calls from Nancy Reagan, Christopher Reeve & Americans across the land for assistance with embryonic stem cell research. We will reverse his wrongheaded policy. Stem cell therapy offers hope to more than 100 million Americans who have serious illnesses-from Alzheimer’s to heart disease to juvenile diabetes to Parkinson’s. We will pursue this research under the strictest ethical guidelines, but we will not walk away from the chance to save lives and reduce human suffering.
Interestingly, that little tidbit is located in the part of the DNC platform that deals with abortion.
In other words, the whole embryonic stem cell debate is a move by the pro-infanticide faction of the democrat party to keep the abortionist’s foot in society’s door.
The dirty little secret, the gorilla on the dining room table of which no one dares speak, is that embryonic stem cell research has shown absolutely no promise toward curing disease, as embryonic stem cells have been proven time and time again to be unstable in nature, at times even causing cancer-like symptoms in subjects.
If the pro-baby killing crowd is to find justification for their ghoulish predelictions, they’ll have to look elsewhere. Embryonic stem cell research ain’t gonna cut it.
Tags: abortion, embryonic stem cell research, stem cell research
November 19th, 2008
Ably stated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University:
John McCain has won the endorsement of some prominent pro-life political leaders. Yet he also has been the cause of some serious headaches for the pro-life movement.
But elections always involve choosing among particular alternatives, rather than insisting on an ideal. And when we look at the alternatives likely in November, it is clear John McCain offers pro-life voters by far the more appealing prospect.
The campaign finance reform legislation McCain sponsored with Sen. Russ Feingold (D., Wis.) has placed serious restrictions on the ability of pro-life groups (and others) to exercise their influence. More important, McCain has voted twice to try to overturn President Bush’s embryonic stem-cell funding policy, thus offering what would amount to a taxpayer-funded incentive for the destruction of human embryos for research. Although he has suggested he may be open to rethinking his view as new science demonstrates alternatives to embryo-destruction, he has so far not reversed himself.
For me and other pro-life voters, these are serious concerns. But we must also consider that McCain’s pro-life record as a whole is very strong. It is not the record of a politician hostile to the pro-life cause or generally unreliable on pro-life issues. He may have been led astray on stem-cell research - but he did co-sponsor Sen. Sam Brownback’s bill prohibiting the creation of embryos by cloning for purposes of research in which they are killed. Contrast his position with those of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Both bitterly oppose the Brownback cloning ban and support the funding of embryo-destroying human cloning with taxpayer dollars.
Likewise on the issue of abortion, there is no comparison between McCain’s history of support for the right to life and Clinton’s and Obama’s implacable opposition to it. While he has never been especially outspoken on abortion-related questions (and is rumored to have sometimes opposed bringing pro-life bills forward), there is no denying that his pro-life voting record is strong and consistent. Indeed, it is one of the best in the Senate.
The next president will name several hundred federal judges, probably including two or more Supreme Court justices. Sen. McCain has pledged to nominate judges who will faithfully interpret the Constitution, not legislate from the bench, and he has made clear that he thinks Justices Roberts and Alito are good models. Sens. Clinton or Obama, by contrast, would be certain - I repeat, certain - to nominate judges and justices who reject this view of the judge’s role, and who are deeply committed to maintaining the regime of judicially mandated abortion on demand.
For social conservatives - such as myself - there really is no question; between McCain and whatever part of HillBama we get, anyone who is pro-life (or, heck, even a moderate pro-choicer) will have to vote for McCain given McCain’s reasonable position on life issues contrasted with the raving, pro-abortion fanaticism we’ll get from a President Hillary or Obama. Remember, not only will both of them seek to put liberal extremists on the bench, but they’ll likely try to tack taxpayer funded abortions on to their various health care proposals. A vote for Hillary or Obama is a vote for the Culture of Death, period. End of story.
A vote for McCain, on the other hand, is a vote for life and hope.
Tags: 2008 Campaign, abortion, embryonic stem cell research, Supreme Court
March 19th, 2008
But there is a problem here:
CNA STAFF, Jan 23, 2008 (CNA).- John McCain has set his sights on Florida as the state’s primary draws closer. In a conversation with Catholics in Florida and CNA this afternoon, McCain maintained his support for embryonic stem cell research while emphasizing his hope that it will become an academic issue given the latest scientific advances.
When he was asked how he reconciled his otherwise solid pro-life voting record with his support for experimentation on “surplus” embryos, Sen. McCain called his decision to back the research “a very agonizing and tough decision”. He continued, saying, “All I can say to you is that I went back and forth, back and forth on it and I came in on one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever had, in favor of that research. And one reason being very frankly is those embryos will be either discarded or kept in permanent frozen status.” The senator, while standing firm on his decision added, “I understand how divisive this is among the pro-life community.”
Referring to the recent break through in stem cell research which allows scientists to use skin cells to create stem cells, McCain said that, “I believe that skin stem cell research has every potential very soon of making that discussion academic…. Sam Brownback and others are very encouraged at this latest advance….”
Which actually works against McCain - we stand firm for life because the cause of life is the true cause, and thus we were always certain that embryonic stem cell research was never needed. In a universe governed by God, there just could not be a need to deliberately kill the innocent for the supposed benefit of others. We in the pro-life side stood firm - with President Bush as the immovable object - and our faith was proved correct…recent research shows that there is no need to use embyronic stem cells. McCain fell for the liberal argument - and our worry is that if he attains the Presidency, that he’ll fall for such arguments again.
Liberals have a very high level of skill in casting their positions in a postive light - in a way, that is, which makes it seem that disagreement with their position is heartless. But if one takes a close look at it, their demands for a benefit to one always come at the cost to someone else. Time and time again, various GOPers have fallen for these arguments, always to their discredit and always to the advantage of that liberalism anethema to our core beliefs. A combination of MSM prodding and liberal heartstring-pulling worked on McCain - and we can only assume it will work again.
This does not mean that McCain shouldn’t be our nominee or our President, but it is a factor to take into consideration as we make our choices, now and in November.
Tags: 2008 Campaign, abortion, embryonic stem cell research
January 26th, 2008
