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A huge hit!I was too engrossed in the dicusssion to take pictures.I did find lots of "extremist" soul-mates however...one that is even a poet! Big thanks to Dan Lacey for his excellent graphics and spot-on clever poem!I'm a Conservative Extremist. Who Are You?I'm a Conservative Extremist! Who are you?Are you--a Conservative Extremist--Too?Then there's a pair of us?Don't tell! they'd banish us--

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"The derivation of patient matched stem cell lines still holds great promise to those suffering from diabetes, spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's and a host of other afflictions for which no cure is yet known. Stem cell research will surely advance, thanks to the efforts of many dedicated scientists throughout the world who realize that science and ethics are inseparable.'"It's quite the modern

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Thank you all for putting actual Cures before empty Promises!

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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) will attend a bill signing ceremony at the White House tomorrow as President Bush signs Smith's Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005 (HR 2520) into law. A getting a White House signing ceremony too! Good job! I'm thankful that the democrats dropped the posturing that would have blocked this extremely important bill that will save lives.

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Seoul National University began publicly investigating stem cell pioneer Hwang Woo Suk over the weekend, sealing his office, securing cells and questioning him.Hwang Woo Suk fielded questions from the media last week. Hwang has acknowledged "fatal errors" in a May research paper that claimed the creation of 11 new lines, or colonies, of cloned embryonic stem cells. And he asked the journal

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Colleen Carroll Campbell, a fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center wrote in the National Review about Hwang a few weeks ago. She clearly illustrates the point that embryonic stem cell research is bad for everyone -- not just the embryos.In fact, Hwang's lies and lapses are a clear illustration of the ethical problems created by embryonic-stem-cell research: the immense demand for human

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A nice tribute to Leon Kass from Austin Ruse at the Culture of Life Foundation.After four years as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, Leon Kass participated as an associate member of the council for the first time last week. The council held its first meeting under the leadership of the new chairman, Edmund Pellegrino. In an interview with Culture & Cosmos, Kass reflected on the

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In the latest chapter of a messy scientific divorce, biologist Gerald Schatten has asked his former collaborator, Woo Suk Hwang, to retract a celebrated stem-cell paper published under both their names. ...Now Schatten says he has further concerns: not about the ethics of the research, but about the validity of the results. (Source)This illustrates a timeless truth. People who are ethically

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You know, the famous South Korean stem cell researcher that clones embryos and then chops them up for harvests their stem cells? So the eggs he used to clone and kill may have come from a staff research assistant. Hmmm. Yes, that is pretty awful ethically. But THAT is what gets the press?????What about the clones that were killed? Isn't cloning a human ethically troubling? Isn't killing a

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STEM CELL THERAPY: 14 PIGLETS CLONED IN CREMONA

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Reuters reported today thatLegislation to expand federally funded embryonic stem cell research will not come to a vote in the Senate until early next year, one of the sponsors, Senator Arlen Specter, said yesterday. Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, told the chamber that Senate majority leader Bill Frist has agreed to scheduling a vote on the stem cell legislation then. Specter said he had

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STEM CELLS from aborted foetuses are to be injected directly into human brains in a procedure that could open the door to treating a host of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and motor neurone disease. Scientists in the United States have been given the go-ahead to transplant stem cells into six children who suffer from Batten disease, a rare but fatal genetic disorder. Further

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New Stem Cell Drug Gives Baby Second Chance

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Jivin' J points out this article on alternate methods of creating embryonic stem cells. He does an awesome job pointing out the colossal arrogance of some of the scientists involved. But there is more to point out. Like how proponents have a tendency to blind themselves to science by using science. Take this quote for example: "Yet another group, which includes Dr. Jaenisch, says that for

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That would be adult stem cells. Another CURE brought to you by adult stem cells... The work is being funded by a new charity, the Heart Cells Foundation, set up by Ian Rosenberg. Two years ago doctors told Mr Rosenberg his heart disease was so severe that he had just a couple of months to live. He travelled to Germany, were stem cells were injected into his heart. 'Within a matter of months

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Here. Well, okay. That just about nails it up, doesn't it? Those Nobel winners are certainly smarter than we are. We ought to just shut up and get out of the way of science. After all, only stupid people (or extremists) would want to put up some kind of limits on scientific inquiry. Oh, and did you catch the new term? Early stem cell research. That's it! We just won't use the word "

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Michael Rosen attempts to highlight the Orthodox Jewish position on embryonic stem-cell research in "'Mere Water,' Potential Life, or Both?" as a means of bringing a "compromise" position into the debate. Now, I'm all for a "both/and" type of understanding of life; however, if we truly believe that an embryo is human life (even human life with the potential to become more) how does that justify

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Every now and then, you find an especially egregious example of someone taking an obvious fact and trying to make it less so. Here is the award winner for the week:'When you call an embryo a living person, which is what they are doing, you get people off track.' Telling people the plain biological facts gets them off track? Well, maybe it gets them off of the track of approving funding for

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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Heart Institute now have $12 million in federal funds to study stem cells.The scientists will research the stem cells to treat damaged hearts. The funding comes from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.Scientists plan to study whether a patient's own cardiac stem cells can be used to repair heart tissue following a heart attack or failure.The five-year

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"Taxpayers should not be forced to fund something that is not only ethically questionable, but has also failed to live up to the much-hyped promise."If I were a person with something invested in embryonic stem cell research (a scientist, a venture capitalist, etc) that line in bold would really give me pause for concern. As soon as one clinical trial goes forward and doesn't deliver miracle

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This is what we are up against. It's slick and well financed - notice the K Street address?These are some of their members/ supporters: * Alliance for Aging Research * Alpha-1 Foundation * ALS Association * American Council on Education * American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons * American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists *

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Type 1 diabetes results from the loss of insulin-producing beta-cells in the pancreas. Because the supply of beta-cells from cadavers is insufficient to meet the needs of 99% of diabetic patients, alternative sources of beta-cells would be highly desirable. Previous efforts to coax mature human beta-cells to survive and replicate in the laboratory have not succeeded, however, because the cells

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Welcome to the 3rd Carnival of Life!We've got lots of great links so let's get started...Papijoe at Marlowe's Shade writes about fetal farming - which could be the next step in the embryonic stem cell research debate.I have linked to an article by the USCCB about the politics behind cloning language and how that can lead to the fetal farming described in Papijoe's post.Deborah at Choose Life

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The San Franciso Chronicle gives us to a very even-handed treatment of the hype surrounding embryonic stem cell research. They note in the conclusion:"There are many approaches out there, and stem cells are certainly one of them," Tuszynski said. "My thought is that the magnitude of the benefit is relatively modest. Although at some point, one can say it's worthwhile to make the transition to

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See, the problem with writing satire these days is that it never takes long for reality to sort of "catch-up" with it.For example, one of the first post on this blog, was written with my tongue firmly in my cheek, about how I was a stem cell extremist by night - working hand-in-hand with the anti-cure forces, dedicated to keeping scientific progress at bay and furthering the cause of human

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Here is the conclusion of an excellent article, At the Heart of Cloning, which argues for an inclusive view of personhood: the radical and bold idea that if you are a human being, you are a person. Nor does the inability to perceive personhood in others serve as proof that it must not be present. One's own lack of clarity does not alter objective reality. Ironically, those who would deny

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Ya think? Really? Here is a perfect example of using non-specific language to obscure the truth.Embryonic stem cells are controversial because of origin. Most are leftovers from fertility clinics, allowed to grow in culture several days beyond fertilization.You might think that fertility clinics are in the business of growing stem cells. I sorta thought people put up with the trouble of IVF

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Peter Singer is back with his scary proposition in this short piece in Foreign Policy. Here are some of the more amazing parts: During the next 35 years, the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological, and demographic developments. By 2040, it may be that only a rump of hard-core, know-nothing religious fundamentalists will defend

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In the latest on-line edition of the journal Stem Cells is an editorial announcing the pressing need to outline ethics for future trials of human embryonic stem cell derived therapies. Increased funding and continued scientific progress have opened a new era in the ethics of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. These developments will reframe the ethical debate, which to date has focused on

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I should have announced awhile back that I am now a contributor at Pro-Life Blogs on the subject of stem cell research. (Big surprise that!)Mike, in response to a post of mine, wrote that he didn't think I could come up with a characteristic of humans that was present in the 5 day old blastocyst. Now Mike writes for an interesting blog called "The Beginning of Life". He is looking to debate

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A piece by Ronald Bailey from Reason gushes all over Woo Suk Hwang (the South Korean researcher who cloned (among other things) a dog). It reports on a speech he gave while accepting an award from The Alliance for Aging Research (one of those outfits that thinks people ought to never die).Hwang noted that with cloned stem cells we would be "treating our bodies with our own perfectly matched

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Here's a treat for you fellow Stem Cell Extremist in the DC area!Fr. Pacholczyk, director of the National Catholic Bioethics Center will be giving a one-day workshop on medical moral issues, stem cell research, in-vitro fertilization and cloning.Sept. 23 and 24th10-2:30 pmSt. AgnesArlington, VA$15/individual $25/couplefor more info call: 703-841-2550I've seen this lecture before. It is very

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Now, researchers at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research working with human embryonic stem cells have uncovered the process responsible for the single-most tantalizing characteristic of these cells: their ability to become just about any type of cell in the body, a trait known as pluripotency. It may help us as well to take multipotent cells and make them pluirpotent again, bypassing the

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Bush's new appointed head of the President's Council on Bioethics, on the morality of research carried out on embryos -- from testimony before congress in 1999. The embryo's moral worth is not determined by its instrumental value for others. This would be to absolutize utility and to devalue the lives of all other classes of vulnerable human beings. The societal consequences are grave

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The President intends to appoint Edmund D. Pellegrino, of New York, to be a Member of the President's Council on Bioethics. Upon appointment, the President intends to designate him Chairperson.My favorite bioethics blog seems happy with the choice. Fine. But no need to disparage Kass like they did. Just because Kass has a different view of how bio-ethics should be practiced than Caplan,

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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has a very thoroughly researched article up discussing "research cloning" and current state legislation regarding cloning. We are on the "The Legislative Slippery Slope to Fetus Farming", as the USCCB puts it. Until recently, groups promoting research cloning, such as the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), supported state and federal

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Steven at Spinal Confusion has had an article published in Wired News. Congratulation!The piece is about how stem-cell politics is holding up the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Act (aka Senate Bill 828), which really has nothing to do with stem-cells and is completely controversy free.Which is true. It is free from embryonic stem cell taint and it is caught up in the politics. People see the name

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The cells were found in the bone marrow of adults by Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and though the team has so far published little, a patent application seen by New Scientist shows the team has carried out extensive experiments.These confirm that the cells - dubbed multipotent adult progenitor cells, or MAPCs - have the same

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From the very end of Linda Greenhouse's Rehnquist obit: While the new chief justice found the confirmation process extremely disagreeable, he kept his composure and even his wry sense of humor. At one point, a Republican Senator, Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, commended him for his recent dissent in Wallace v. Jaffree, the case on silent prayer in the Alabama public schools. Senator Hatch observed

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To one who holds to John Paul’s Christian understanding of the body, and so believes that each human being, from the very first moment of existence, emerges from and is called towards eternity, there are no negotiable or even very perplexing issues regarding our moral obligations before the mystery of life. Not only is every abortion performed an act of murder, but so is the destruction of every

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ARTIFICIAL wombs, to bring a foetus of a human being to full term outside a woman's body, could become a reality within 20 years, scientists have predicted. "

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Cribbed from Taranto's Best of the Web:From "$pringfield," an episode of "The Simpsons," which originally aired Dec. 16, 1993:Principal Skinner: Now, I, uh, hesitate to bring this up, but a number of cities have rejuvenated their economies with, er, legalized gambling. There is an added bonus: some of the revenue can go to help our underfunded public schools. . . .Ned Flanders: What do you think,

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For most people, the disconnect between the senator’s [Frist's] stated beliefs and his support of embryo-destructive research is obvious. The senator provides no meaningful explanation on how he reconciles his belief that “nascent human lives” deserve “utmost dignity and respect” with his conclusion that these same human lives can be intentionally destroyed and used as raw material for research.

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This reads like a headline from The Onion. Scientists come up with a Nobel-level breakthrough allowing scientists to convert human skin cells into embryonic stem cells. They have the honesty to publish results that are politically inconvenient (because we can now say, 'I told you so, ethical science works'). And the press frames their achievement as if it 'muddles' the debate-because, of course

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Sunday, in the magazine section of the New York Times, there was a long piece asking us to consider the future questions that would be put before the Supreme Court in order to better judge the suitability of Roberts. I certainly can agree that that would be a prudent measure since a great many of those issues with be bioethical based; however, that approach magnifies how unprepared we are to

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Is there a difference?Obviously there is a difference in outcomes. In therapeutic cloning, the resulting embryo is dissected at day 5 of its development when the inner cell mass is withdrawn. Those stem cells are then grown into cells lines from which any sort of tissue may be developed. Or so the theory goes. In reproductive cloning, the resulting embryo is put back into a womb and allowed

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A 61 year-old heart attack patient was successfully treated at Saitama Medical School in Japan, using bone marrow cell transplant. Dr. Shunei Kyo states that this is the first case of heart attack treated with the help of stem cell therapy, and that the patient has already been discharged from the hospital, after having been disconnected from an artificial heart. " That, it should be noted,

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Ignatius Press makes such nice banners for their articles...

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I've always maintained (somewhat arrogantly) that if you could fit your entire political philosophy on a bumper sticker, that there was something very wrong with it. Well to prove my point StemPAC has a whole load of banners that you can put up on your blog or web site - a kind of bumper-sticker for your blog.Here's a great one:Did you get that? We extremists are keeping babies sick and making

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A kind reader sent a link to the following WaPo article about the skin cell "reprogramming" success from earlier in the week. (Even extremists take vacations with their families and get behind on the news...nonetheless, better late than never.)Scientists for the first time have turned ordinary skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells -- without having to use human eggs or make new

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Linda T. Berry from Raymond, Missouri points out why her local paper is wrong in supporting embryonic stem cell research. "The policy of creating and then destroying human life at the will of science, for the benefit of those who supposedly have greater right to existence and health is truly alarming for a free society, as it reduces the value of human persons within it - at any stage of life -

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See this an more great cartoons at In Toon with the World, a great pro-life cartoon site by Zach Brissett.

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Louis M. Guenin an ethicist, posits a theory on how we can best rationalize the use of human embryos in research. "Guenin writes that the overlooked reasoning starts from the premise that a woman's decision declining transfer of her externally created embryo into her,or into anyone else, is a morally permissible exercise of discretion; and further, that an embryo barred by such a decision from

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Chris Bell, potential future governor of Texas said: “Stem cell research isn't just a good idea, it's a moral imperative. Jesus didn't tell us to heal the sick unless politics got in the way. When Jesus healed the lepers and gave the blind their sight, He didn't stop to worry about slippery slopes and potential implications.” Hmmm, I don't seem to recall Jesus killing anyone in order to cure

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I have made the case before that HB 810, or Castle-DeGette is really a stupid bill in every aspect imaginable.First, it makes federal money available for the destruction of embryos for scientific ends. That's why most Christian pro-lifers don't like it. Secondly, it only makes federal money available for "leftover" IVF embryos. That's why most scientists don't like it (and a few will admit as

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Reuters.com reports that primative cells have been found in a part of the placenta called the amnion. It is not yet certain that the cells they found are true stem cells, said Stephen Strom, who worked on the study. But they carry two important genes, called Oct 4 and nanog, which so far have only been seen on embryonic stem cells. 'We were just blown away when we found those two genes expressed

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Beating Hurdles, Scientists Clone a Dog for a First *Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

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From the introduction of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity by Leon Kass:Fewer people yet worried about the effects not on the embryos but on our embryo-using society of coming to look upon nascent human life as a natural resource to be mined, exploited, commodified. The little embryos are merely destroyed, but we -- their users-- are at risk of corruption. We are desensitized and

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Not just for Real Estate anymore.The evening that Castle-DeGette passed the house, a group of senators met with Diana DeGette and Mike Castle to take the bill from them to introduce into the Senate. It was a typical "pass the bill"” kind of press conference. Some of the things the senators statements were rather intriguing. For instance, our supposedly "“pro-life" senator from Utah, Orrin

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Eric Cohen and William Kristol conclude in their Weekly Standard piece on Frist's stem cell relapse : "But here is one thing that can be done between now and when the Senate takes up this issue, most likely in September: Those pro-embryo research politicians who rushed to praise Frist's wisdom and courage should now be forced to take a position on the rest of Frist's recommendations: Will they

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The Mighty Barrister has a very nice piece detailing Frist's pro-life record.

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Fr. Tadusz Pacholcyk (its easy to say folks, really! Just try: Ta-DAY-oosh Puh-CHOL-chik, don't let Polish names scare you...) was on Diane Rehm today and did a great job. It is not the easiest format to make the kind of nuanced points that sometimes need to be made in this area. Listen to the show here.

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Apparently.The Ayn Rand Institute (whose concern for the poor and suffering is legion) is the latest to dismiss human embryos from inclusion in our species based on their size. To wit: "But embryos used in embryonic stem cell research are manifestly not human beings--not in any rational sense of the term. These embryos are smaller than a grain of sand, and consist of at most a few hundred

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Steven writes a great post on why 810 won't end the cloning debate. He also writes very intelligently about the process of cell dedifferentiation and why it is the most scientifically realistic of the eSC alternatives.Transdifferentiation, including dedifferentiation, will allow researchers a way to obtain the cells they need to study the early stages of disease processes without destroying

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I'll post more as they come up. These seem to be the first out of the bag. Its always brave to make big announcements like this on a Friday at the end of July. It's the same as saying that we should use condemned criminals for medical experimentation because they're going to die anyway. It is morally incoherent. Senator Frist can no longer count on our support nor the support of the wider

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The bishops note that we are reminded in the 'Vatican Instruction on Respect for Human Life' that 'no objective, even though noble in itself, such as a foreseeable advantage to science, to other human beings, or to society, can in any way justify experimentation on living human embryos or fetuses, whether viable or not, either inside or outside the mother's body.' Dr. Robert J. O'Hara, Jr.,

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Exchange between two Washington Lobbyists at a recent costume party:Woman, dressed in a donkey costume: “Knock knock.”Man, dressed in an elephant costume: “Who’s there?”Woman: “Clone.”Man: “Clone who?”Woman: “Don’t know, Senate hasn’t decided yet.”Man smiles while staring at the wall with a far-away look in his eyes, then lifts histrunk, downs his drink, and heads for the bar, shaking his head,

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Yes, I know he supported it before President Bush first put limits on the federal funding of the research.This guy wants to be president.I think I hear the bells tolling for embryos: frozen, newly minted and cloned. A scientifically illiterate society wants to cannablize its young. Nothing, at least in terms of moral qualms or ethical dilemmas, will stand in the way.

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Let's hope we hear from even more about a right to life without the pain and anguish of Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's and Parkinson's diseases; spinal-cord injuries, and AIDS.Unfortunately, no one has a right to a life free from pain: especially when a majority of the planet would still like a life free from hunger.

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Sunday, family, friends and neighbors of 19 year-old Eric Chase came together in Hastings. Eric was in a dirt bike accident two years ago that paralyzed him from the chest down.On Tuesday, he'll fly to Portugal for a stem cell transplant, a treatment that may bring back the feeling in his body. Community members raised $90,000 for the operation - a donation Eric calls unbelievable. 'I just can't

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Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advocates Threaten Senate Amendment Because it appears members of the Senate will not arrive at an agreement on which of several bills dealing with stem cell research to bring up, one senator says he's going to find an alternative way to make taxpayers pay for embryonic stem cell research. Senator Arlen Specter says he will attach his bill to strike down President

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The NYTimes opines this morning: "As the Senate showdown looms, the White House, sensing likely defeat, is playing a political game with Mr. Frist's help by touting a 'third way' proposal rooted in unproven science. The proposal would put federal funds behind the notion that researchers might eventually grow stem cells by using a technique that takes a cell or two from an early embryo without

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The American Journal of Bioethics quotes (at some length) the testimony of George Daley dealing with the ethical alternatives for deriving embryonic cells: "A more recent proposal put forth by Markus Grompe is a variation on Altered Nuclear Transfer called Oocyte Assisted Reprogramming, (OAR). Grompe also suggests altering the input somatic cell so as to preclude formation of a viable human

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StemPAC announces: "In an effort to wage a national campaign against extremist elected officials who have been holding up stem cell research, a bipartisan team of industry leading grassroots mobilizers, political consultants, and private sector stem cell research supporters today officially launched 'StemPAC.' StemPac, anchored by its namesake web site StemPac.com, is a 527 organization that will

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A 64-year-old New Zealand woman with motor neurone disease who received controversial stem cell implants in March in China says the procedure failed, news reports said Tuesday. Willie Terpstra reported immediate improvement in her condition when she returned from Beijing, but now says: 'I would not do it again. It cost too much money, and the result is not good.' Two million stem cells from

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Legislation that would increase the scope of stem cell research in Massachusetts is vetoed by Republican Governor Mitt Romney because of his opposition of human embryo cloning. Romney says, 'It is wrong to allow science to take an assembly-line approach to the production of human embryos, the creation of which will be rooted in experimentation and destruction.' But, Democrats, who passed the bill

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Saletan concludes his article by stating:It's amazing how much progress you can make when nobody wins.He does a great job of showing how the tug and pull between scientists and ethicists is actually helping the science in this area to become stronger rather than destroying science altogether. Isn't that they way it always works? Ideas are only strengthened when open and honest debate is

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The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (CBHD) strongly denounces Gov. Blagojevich's executive order to fund embryonic stem cell research through the creation of the Illinois Regenerative Institute for Stem Cell Research with 10 million Illinois taxpayer dollars. "Though it's commendable to want to help those who are suffering debilitating diseases and injuries, it is unconscionable to do so

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People who want government to fund ES cell research are expecting taxpayers to pay for science projects that knowledgeable investors will not. William Haseltine, ES cell research advocate and CEO of Human Genome Sciences said, "The routine utilization of human embryonic stem cells for medicine is 20 to 30 years hence. The timeline to commercialization is so long that I simply would not invest.

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The Holy Fool discusses Hurlbut's proposed "altered nuclear transfer" process as a possible means of obtaining morally "untainted" embryonic stem cells. Hurlbut presented and had coverage of his thesis in several forums, including back in March when the Legionaries of Christ held a conference on stem cells, cloning and embryo adoption at the Regina Apostolorum University. John Allen's Word

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"Some have raised the objection that we may be just creating a 'disabled' embryo. This is a serious consideration, but I believe the recent proposal for ANT-OAR has fully met these concerns. This method would turn on certain master genes that define ES cells but which are never on in a fertilized egg. By fast-forwarding to the gene expression pattern of a pluripotent cell we would bypass the

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Maggie Gallagher hands Mario Cuomo his hat! Mario, Mario, a panel of scientists couldn't prove that you have a right to life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness either. The question of why human rights exist, and who therefore has them, is not a scientific question. Fobbing off core questions like this onto a panel of scientists is merely an attempt to evade moral and intellectual responsibility

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Wired reports that:Such statements are like fingernails on a chalkboard to stem-cell researchers like Leonard Zon, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, which is trying to get the message across that embryos are a microscopic mass of several hundred cells, and no body parts to dismember.Sure an embryo has no discernable limbs to dismember -- but let's look at a 5 day old

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According to the congressional testimony of Pia de Solenni, a director at Family Research Council:Dr. David Prentice, formerly a professor of life sciences at Indiana State University, now at the Family Research Council, has crunched the numbers to show how many women would be involved just to cure diabetes. To date, the highest cloning efficiency with animals has been 20-30 percent. This means

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George Weigel provides a good list of questions to ask your representative in Summer Civics and Stem CellsOn May 24, the U.S. House of Representatives accelerated America’s descent into Huxley’s brave new world by voting to provide Federal funding for embryo-destructive stem cell research. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had made clear that this issue involved fundamental issues of

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After a debate that pitted hope for cures to some of humanity's deadliest diseases against the specter of vats of proto-humans grown for spare parts, the Republican- controlled state Assembly voted Thursday to ban human cloning in Wisconsin.The bill, which passed on a mostly party-line 59 to 38 vote, now goes to the state Senate.Lawmakers turned down a provision that would have banned just

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John Leo notes at the end of an article about double speak:In America’s clone wars, politicians have argued for years over the alleged distinction between “therapeutic cloning” and “reproductive cloning.” But the only difference is in the intent of the scientists who manipulate the embryos. The procedures and the biological entities created are the same. The problem for euphemizers is how to get

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Paul Greenberg writes about the wisdom of repugnance, and how we work around it in the embryonic stem cell debate by playing language games.The trick is not to think of the subjects of these experiments [Nazi WWII experiments] as human, but as Jews, Slavs, Gypsies . . . the eugenically undesirable. And remember that they were doomed anyway, and you can see the (brutal) logic of it.That's the

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A Tale of Two Stem Cells

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Here is a nice little article supposedly about a recent advance in adult stem cell applications.Kiminobu Sugaya of Chicago's NewNeural LLC has processed human stem cells [from patient bone marrow] into nerve cells and implanted them in the brains of aged, demented rats.The implanted nerve cells improved the rats' memories, Sugaya found, and could one day do the same for humans."In the animals we

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A Stem Cell ManifestoFirst and most importantly, we believe that life begins at conception. At that moment a unique and irreplaceable human being comes into existence. Though it is much smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, it contains within itself the capacity for all the qualities that we deem valuable in the human person. Nothing need be added to that life, it only needs to

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[Jonathon Alter] identifies a new phenomenon, the 'stem cell extremist,' as a source of the intractable political debate:Bioethical blowhard Leon Kass of the University of Chicago conned Bush into seeing the issue as morally complex, but the rest of the world understands that it's simple enough—reproductive cloning (to create Frankensteins), no; embryonic-stem-cell research (to cure diseases),

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