Stemming Politics

Editorial - June 07, 2007 - Investor's Business Daily

Science: With the president sure to veto a bill expanding embryonic stem cell research, a new breakthrough should make the whole issue moot. But it won't stop Congress and presidential candidates from playing politics.

That is what EMBRYONIC stem cell research is all about. Politics. The democrats are lying about the issue every time they say scientists are excited about the "potential" for stem cell research and fail to acknowledge the difference between EMBRYONIC stem cell research and ADULT stem cell research.

You can support abortion where the mother is the victim of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother during the embryo phase of pregnancy (the first trimester), and still oppose human life being so cheapened as to allow for the creation of pregnancies just for EMBRYONIC stem cell research to be conducted. Creating potential human life for such casual uses is seen by most as obscene. Making tax payers fund this obscenity is even more insulting.

Democrats equate opposing EMBRYONIC stem cell research as opposing all stem cell research. It isn't. That is the lie.

Some facts about this debate that the democrats try to obscure. More than 20 successful treatments of disease have come from ADULT stem cell research. To date there is NO CURE that has come from EMBRYONIC stem cell research.

Republicans DO NOT oppose ADULT stem cell research as it does not require destruction of potential human life.

The potential to end this contemptible democrat political campaign to malign Republicans with their misleading refusal to discriminate between EMBRYONIC and ADULT stem cell research will be fantastic. As noted in the article:

. . . . . on Wednesday, a real live technological breakthrough was announced by three teams of scientists, and the whole explosive political issue surrounding stem cells can be expected to dissipate as a result. The scientists used skin to produce the equivalent of embryonic stem cells; such cells could be used to find new treatments for those diseases without the extinguishing of tiny human lives.

If democrats keep up their campaign anyway, it will be an obvious lie, or proof that it was not research they wanted . . . . but proof (like PETA's President) they simply want to kill humans for any reason they can come up with. Having a lie on which they can attack Republicans is simply a bonus.