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Obama to reverse limits on stem cell work

World Mar. 07, 2009 - 04:12AM JST ( 16 )

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smithinjapanMar. 07, 2009 - 09:14AM JST

The die-hards on this site are going to be pretty hard pressed to find a way to be angry at Obama about this one!

Good for Obama. Now Americans might not have to go to SKorea, Canada, or other countries for treatment based on stem cell research. This will hopefully put the US back in the game in terms of science. The more competition, the faster the advances.
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SushiSake3Mar. 07, 2009 - 10:07AM JST

Nancy Reagan will be happy to hear this.
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VORMar. 07, 2009 - 10:46AM JST

Obama is devoid of a moral compass. No surprise here. Well at least now exterminated fetus' can live on in a beaker. nice.
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rollonarteMar. 07, 2009 - 10:58AM JST

More charades and grandstanding.
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TexasAggieMar. 07, 2009 - 11:49AM JST

Where is he getting the money for this?

Just add it to his multi-trillion dollar tab he has run up so far in his first 40 days in office.
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SuperLibMar. 07, 2009 - 01:59PM JST

Good move.
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smithinjapanMar. 07, 2009 - 03:40PM JST

VOR: Nothing immoral about using rejected fetuses in the name of finding a cure for disease, and for creating organs which can help others. Better than being in the Dark Ages of science, like you have been for the past eight years under a certain zealot.

rollonarte: How is his reversing bush's stem-cell policies a charade? Sounds like the grandstanding is simply coming from atop your soapbox. As I said in my initial post, you're pretty hard-pressed to come up with something REAL to be angry about at Obama for this. I rest my case.

TexasAggie: take money away from some of the religious programs and the billions upon billions that are going to be saved with reductions in Iraq and the 'war on terror'. Hell, even what you spend in ONE DAY in Iraq would have stem-cell research going for some time. What's more, that's that kind of research that, when fruitful (which could be VERY soon), would pay itself off a million fold in no time flat.

Money being spent in the various wars, instead of on Americans, for example, doesn't pay for itself in any way whatsoever.
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smithinjapanMar. 07, 2009 - 03:53PM JST

Anyway, this was an issue that almost all Americans were unified on -- in FAVOUR of stem cell research -- but that bush vetoed based on his PERSONAL RELIGIOUS beliefs. So it's nice to see Obama giving the power back to the people on this one.

As to anyone argument of 'immorality' as one poster talked about above, it's interesting that most people who would talk about Obama being immoral on this issue still stand behind bush 100% on the Iraq war and torture, etc.
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skipthesongMar. 07, 2009 - 04:26PM JST

Nothing immoral about using rejected fetuses in the name of finding a cure for disease, and for creating organs which can help others. Better than being in the Dark Ages of science, like you have been for the past eight years under a certain zealot."

I couldn't agree more.
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JoeBigsMar. 07, 2009 - 05:53PM JST

Where is he getting the money for this?

By getting some over charges back from Haliburton and from taxing the rich. Buya! No more Caymen Island save havens for Cheney's friends.

This should have been done years ago but of course we were led by the hypocrites like the Ted Haggard's of the world who had the Presidents ear. You know the Moral Majority types. Thou shall not save a life.......

Man got to love it a President who cares about the people and not about an egg that is normally flushed....

BTW just for the far right who want facts......
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smithinjapanMar. 07, 2009 - 08:31PM JST

JoeBigs: "BTW just for the far right who want facts......"

No kidding. Evidently those who think it's 'immoral' to use fetuses for research think that the fetuses don't exist anyway or that they aren't going to be chucked in the garbage.

Scientists across the US are already saying they feel much freer to do research and are looking forward to getting back into it fully, etc. Finally the US can catch up. Good work, President Obama.
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MadvertsMar. 07, 2009 - 09:08PM JST

"like the Ted Haggard's of the world who had the Presidents ear"

I hope that's all Ted "had".
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rollonarteMar. 07, 2009 - 09:08PM JST

For shame, how many Canadian and European biotech companies will our newly-revived juggernaut crush? Muwaahahahahaha.
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SuperLibMar. 08, 2009 - 12:59AM JST

Money being spent in the various wars, instead of on Americans, for example, doesn't pay for itself in any way whatsoever.

Smith is like SushiSake's sidekick now. Cute. :)
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adaydreamMar. 08, 2009 - 03:56AM JST

I was watching another program about frozen embryos in the country and there are over 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States alone. Most will never be used. A few of these embryos could be donated by the parents to help people live and be cured some some of our cruelist diseases.

I'm very glad to see Obama do this. < :-)
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goodDonkeyMar. 08, 2009 - 02:48PM JST

TexasAggie said:

Where is he getting the money for this?

Really! Now the government is suppose to fund research to end disease?