Obama To Reverse Bush Limits On Stem Cell Work

An anonymous reader sends this quote from the Associated Press: "Reversing an eight-year-old limit on potentially life-saving science, President Barack Obama plans to lift restrictions Monday on taxpayer-funded research using embryonic stem cells. ... Under President George W. Bush, taxpayer money for that research was limited to a small number of stem cell lines that were created before Aug. 9, 2001, lines that in many cases had some drawbacks that limited their potential usability. But hundreds more of such lines — groups of cells that can continue to propagate in lab dishes — have been created since then, ones that scientists say are healthier, better suited to creating treatments for people rather than doing basic laboratory science. Work didn't stop. Indeed, it advanced enough that this summer, the private Geron Corp. will begin the world's first study of a treatment using human embryonic stem cells, in people who recently suffered a spinal cord injury. Nor does Obama's change fund creation of new lines. But it means that scientists who until now have had to rely on private donations to work with these newer stem cell lines can apply for government money for the research, just like they do for studies of gene therapy or other treatment approaches."

Re:Gives moral justification to abortionists

[Anonymous Coward]

Anti-abortionists are only anti-abortionists until their daughter is impregnated by a minority. To hear them tell the story babies are being harvested 24/7 by Satan, yet most stem cells are not harvested by Satan (google it), nor is burning a baby the only way to retrieve the cells.

Re:Gives moral justification to abortionists

[jacquesm]

A conservative is a liberal with a teenage daughter :)

One jar of stem cells please

[mc1138]

Just remember any anti aging effects are purely temporary...

Re:Christ Almighty

[D-Cypell]

They are at most minuscule fragments of tissue - kind of like the smears most of you leave on the sheets at night.

+1 Well researched

Re:Gives moral justification to abortionists

[Ashriel]

So since infants are unable to process logic and reason, use their opposite thumbs, walk errect, communicate with a complex speech system then they aren't worthy of the protection afforeded to humans? All of these are characteristics of humans that set us apart from the rest of the beasts, but dont actually develop until several years after birth.

Indeed, this has been my argument that infants have no rights as people. Thank you for stating it so clearly.

Re:So, if work didn't stop, but advanced dramatica

[Shuh]

This is the billion-dollar question.

Literally.

Short answer:

1. someone always needs your money more than you do, and,
2. government always seems to know those people.

Re:Proven to kill...

[QCompson]

Women are pregnant for 12 months in East Asia? Weird.