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House approves stem-cell research bill

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=787594
lets hope that our protector of freedom dont veto it :rolleyes:
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a sperm and an egg are not individual lives. they are in essance half a life since they only have half the genetic code. When they come together they build one single living entity.
two halves make a whole, so another way to interprate your words is that everytime a married ovulating woman dosn't get pregnant she and her husband kills a baby
that might be true if bush was up for reelection. Since he's in his second term he's got no one to impress. He's completely free to do what he wish and move the country in the direction he believes is right. This veto would come from him 100%. Not his "culture of life" buddies

Bill_gates said:
The president will veto this for sure. He would lose the confidence of the religous right if he didnt. He wouldnt just claim to want to support "a culture of life" one day and pass this bill another day.His views are pretty much set in stone when it comes to this issue. :agree:
the article the first poster linked to said
exactly. There are many more places you can get these things from. We don't need to get them from aborted babies! This is what Bush has been saying all the time! This discussion is rediculus because Bush supports stemcell research, he just opposes where some people would like to get their stemcells from.

Bill_gates said:
"Republican leaders offered an alternative measure to instead fund research using stem cells derived from adults and umbilical cords"
I remember one of my teachers saying the umbilical cord stems cells are just as good as the embryo stem cells.....
He's completely free to do what he wish and move the country in the direction he believes is right.
That could also mean invading another country for it's natural resource under the guise of fighting terrorism
Player-X said:
That could also mean invading another country for it's natural resource under the guise of fighting terrorism
Hes Not Invading, he´s liberating. :p
it's evident that this thread is simply being used for anti-bush fodder which bears no resemblance to what Bush is really like. Bush isn't a war-happy hillbilly. He didn't take the choose to go to war very lightly. 9/11 happened and we wanted Bin Laden which isn't that much to ask for since 3000 people just died and we're asking for one guy. So he took on the Taliban to try to find Bin Laden. Things in another part of the region arn't exactly peachy keen either. Sadam was STILL after 12 years acting like a bully. He's gassed his own people (so we know he did have WMDs at some point). At some point he got rid of them but didn't publically make it available to anyone. Not the UN, USA, or his neighbors. Considering that Sadam had attacked two countries unprovoked and ALL intellegence pointed to him having WMDs including Russian, Israili, UN, French, British, and American. Considering all this **** Bush decided to take out Sadam with or without the UN. Now the Iraqis are taking responsiblity for their own country. They have got a democractic government which will probably last for quite a long time. USA troops are mostly sitting in the background backing up the Iraqi troops. The USA is rebuilding everything we blew up and everything that Sadam let deteriate over the past 12 years including the electrical grid, water service, gas service, the oil lines, the sewage systems. The only people causing trouble are the foreign arabs that will kill fellow arabs in order to implement a Far Right (way further than Bush, FoxNews, and the Catholic Church combined) government where even music and dancing are banned. Player-X i'm sorry that you don't appreciate the sacrifices americans make but great democratic reforms are taking place all over the world which IS making the world more safe and secure.
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Oh come on, for once can we leave the war out of this (Fawlty Towers sketch comes to mind :p ) it will only lead this thread to a lock.

Suicide_Jaqie said:
I OBJECT! what if u kill one human but the human ur making doesn'tlive..then u've lost two humans...is the price worth it? plus we are already over populated...and at the rate of human increase and tree decrease..we'll all die from lack of oxygen....so ...yeah...that's all i have to say about that.k
What exactly do you mean with 'but the human ur making doesn't live' ? Did you mean to point out at some kind of risk new treatment might bring which can cause medical mistakes which will cost lives? :)

Seta San said:
that might be true if bush was up for reelection. Since he's in his second term he's got no one to impress. He's completely free to do what he wish and move the country in the direction he believes is right. This veto would come from him 100%. Not his "culture of life" buddies
History told me that honour can be a big thing to presidents. So I can imagine that for the sake of his own honour, Bush doesn't want to let down the group that supported him during election. But about American politics. I'm not that familiar with the system. But there is some kind of house with representatives who are there in name of the people as well isn't there? Are they elected as well? Cause if so, I find it a bad thing if one person can abort something such as this while others that have been elected as well approved it.
The USA is rebuilding everything we blew up and everything that Sadam let deteriate over the past 12 years including the electrical grid, water service, gas service, the oil lines, the sewage systems.
can the USA rebuild all the life that have been loss in this stupid war, a war without reason, a war that 95% dint wan't.
I trusted bush before the irak war(stupid i know) but he make me look like a *******.
now tell me what did we win with this war? only hurting the USA image making it look like it is some kind of evil empire.
I'm NOT going to interfere in the discussion between Boltz and Elly. I see I no longer need to (but I still sort of will :p) express concern on the wonderful uses of stem cells being forbidden for foolish moral standards of those who have no more than disputed faith in personhood to claim their disagreement with. Thank you Boltzmann.




I have another say about the matter though. Something that bugged me with matters concering a certain (former) vegetable of a human being as well: Our use of resources.


Stem Cells are harvested from undeveloped, consciousless, already disintegrating, already lifeless would-be-organisms which have little to no functionality available (they were on complete life support (womb) for crying out loud) in their previous state, that serve no other purpose in this world, other than being a waste of space, a waste of time to fight about, and ready to be disposed of. People with nation-wide responsibilities who consider this (or are used for) an item of utmost importance to fight against, are throwing away valuable time and money that might be used for something more useful, like living beings that are in development and in need of attention.

Over-emotional dribble on a subject that is on the same level as feeling concerned about how to dispose a heap of squashed insect-eggs. :rolleyes: Perhaps not entirely, but the meaningless-factor of the subject is as excruciating, for the sole reason that those would-be organisms are going to be disposed of anyway (be it by us, or 'nature') while there are more pressing matters to be concerned about which would benefit from allowing such research. This process can easily be categorized as a SETBACK, upon denial of the bill. Stab us in the back, will you? Yes, what fine topics to use our resources for, or rather, against. This sort of thing is all what several major ruling beliefs are good for: spoiling oppurtunities. I hope it won't this time, but who am I kidding. :lol:



エッリー said:
Anyways, it's all about what people value. Whoever thinks a human life in terms of cellular structure and finanual expenses won't ever appreciate or treasure human life as the opposite people do.

Food for thought : 1. If you were in a situation where your child/wife/husband/close one....life is endangered , can you really accept that it's for the sake of others? Easy to say yes now, harder to do that while experiencing it.

2. It's very easy for someone to say that they want someone to take their life if they are in a "hopeless" medical condition. Yet, when that person faces death/knows his time is near , he/she will fight for his life.

Fear we shalth not know nor feel...:evil:
Such extraordinary wisdom! I nominate thee, Elly's worst post evAR, for the knowledge thy does think to possess. :p Not to mention how irrelevant the content to the subject is..
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I guess Bush and most people who consider anything that came from an ovum human never tought of it like this:Would you kill a few people now to save many later or would you not kill them and make many more die

I still consider all stem cells as cells parts of a human rather than the whole
Player-X said:
I guess Bush and most people who consider anything that came from an ovum human never tought of it like this:Would you kill a few people now to save many later or would you not kill them and make many more die

I still consider all stem cells as cells parts of a human rather than the whole
Well if you put it that way:
Bush got in to war thus sacrificing lives in order to make the world safer (WMD's)
By that logic why not sacrifice a few 'lifes' by allowing these experiments to save more lifes in future.

Just some random thoughts :)
Well if you put it that way:
Bush got in to war thus sacrificing lives in order to make the world safer (WMD's)
By that logic why not sacrifice a few 'lifes' by allowing these experiments to save more lifes in future.
Good point even though the WMDs were a lie but if you put it that way bush seems to be a hypocryte

BTW.I ment that if they considered embryonic stem cells as living humans then would a few deaths to save many be better
@Player-X: I don't like the concept behind destroying a few lives to sava many others. It sounds too much like fascism. Embryos in the first weeks are not yet persons, that's why I approve using them in research.

BTW, who the hell brought the subject of the Iraq war to this thread? I foresee it being closed soon due to political flamming. The war has nothing to do with this thread (and even Bush-bashing has little do with this thread).
Actuaily I am just seeing if they saw embryos used for stem cells as human beings would they see not researching it while causing a more suffering as something worth it
Player-X said:
Actuaily I am just seeing if they saw embryos used for stem cells as human beings would they see not researching it while causing a more suffering as something worth it
But then you'd also say that killing babies is a good thing if it's going to cure a lot of people. This is unnaceptable to me.

Harvesting cells from something that has no brain is one thing (and thus is not a person), killing for the greater good is quite another. I only support the former.
Player-X is a baby killer!!
Killing for greater good is always bad... because you have to define what good is oO
A president can argue that killing everyone in other countries is good because it leaves less people on Earth, so there are relatively more resources for everyone and we can preserve the enviroment better and the Earth can stay healthy longer :)
Also, arguments about less people is good because we already got too many is just dumb... why don't you kill yourself so we can have one less person in the world :rant:
Can stem cells be cultivated? I'm guessing not because there probably won't be this long discussion if it's possible, but just want to make sure.
sure, lets wait until we starve to death because we dont have enough food for everybody, im not saying that we have to adop the same metods as the chinese gov
but people have to take conciense about the planet resources are not enough for the future generations if this keek up.
What method are you talking about? oO
And are you saying we SHOULD kill everyone in another country so the future generations can have enough resources? That's totally messed up...
im talking about forced abortion to reduce population:
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGASA170522004
Forced abortions are gross. Really.

We should instead keep working on new technologies and keep increasing per capita income (and lessening the gap between rich and poor). Higher per capita income and better income distribution leads to fewer babies. The 1st world is proof of this.
DarkAurora said:
Countries should start passing bills requiring that all ambilical cords be saved after birth so that stem cells can be extracted from them, so we wouldn't have such a large reliance on embryos.
I agree...I should write congress and tell them that...It's so simple that alot of people don't think of it...It is really genius.
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