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July 18, 2006
God In a Lab Coat?
The one issue that I have been passionate about since I was old enough to understand and care has been stem-cell research, since I was about 17 or 18 year old. That was in the early 90's when it first started showing promise of great things. It is also one of the first thing the first President I ever got to vote for did when he got into office did, was lift the ban on research and provide funding for the new science. That all changed when this pig-headed stubborn asshat Bush got into office.
Standing on some moral high ground, (the one that has the same scientific basis as "Intelligent design"), he is denying the scientific community in this country what it needs to move forward and save lives, and help put an end to so much human suffering. He does it because.... "It's wrong..."? What? It's wrong? I have heard the argument. "It's a life."
It's a clump of cells, hardly beyond the chemical reaction of X chromosomes being paired with Y chromosomes. Our scientists are wasting their time an money trying to find inventive ways to make more stem cells instead of using the one we can get and have for the diseases that need curing, and that is precisely what the administration had in mind when it started this tirade years ago. To stop the research in it's tracks... Bush and his religious zealot cronies have set the doctors back decades, and apparently, he is still at it.
Pretty sad when even the wife of a President who was once against stem cell research is begging Bush to reconsider his stance.
If God doesn't belong in our schools, and the government keeps Him out for us... How is it that the Government can let Him in... nay- run wild in our laboratories, where he most certainly not needed... as the scientists are the ones who kicked Him out in the first place.
Posted by TheFreud at July 18, 2006 9:57 AM
