[Mishmash] Explain please!

[Carole]

your right - there is plenty of embryonic tissue available - but - it is
indeed being used.  the research is not limited because much private
research is being done.  the embryonic tissue is usually not being discarded
but being sold to these private research companies.  there is also research
going on that is government sponsored.  these bills that bush keeps vetoing
are simply to have the government take more of a part in funding and
providing this research.  i'd like to see actual figures on how much
advancement had been made by government research and how much by the
privates  -  i have a feeling that percentage-wise - the privates have a
much more impressive track record.  as hugh says - anything the government
is involved with doesn't go well.  and why should it?  anyone worth their
salt will work for a private so as to make way more money with less hassle
than working for the govt.  i know this cause i worked for the govt and the
good ones always left.  also, so far they really haven't proven that
embryonic brain cells are any better than adult brain cells - and there are
lots of those.  in fact, i have several that i'm not using.   so, these
vetoed bills are not stopping or hindering any research - just keeping it
out of the hands of an already too big government.
cb

There is plenty of embryonic tissue available; after all, it's not exactly a
consumer item.  There is a limited amount of medical research going on in
any area and in most cases, including this one, it's limited by a lack of
money rather than a lack of materiel.  There is a potential to alleviate a
huge amount of human suffering if the money for a modest amount of research
(we're not talking high school biology labs here) were being done.  It's a
fact that abortion exists; it's also a fact that the by-products of
abortions (which aren't likely to go away any time soon) are currently
destroyed because useful research with them is not being funded.  Abortion
ends a potential life; it is neither necessary nor desirable that it should
have ended totally in vain.

Second point: stem cells can be obtained from the placenta after a normal
birth.  Research might be done with these, too, if the funds were available.
But they're not, because some people (including our beloved president)
either haven't thought much about the matter, or are working so hard to
maintain the support of their unthinking base that the consequences of their
behavior doesn't concern them.  It probably isn't any of their kids who will
die early of inherited genetic conditions.

Dick


 
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