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Stem Cell Research v newest news
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/....ap/index.html
I am for Stem Cell as it is a great catalyst to finding cures.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Spoiling for a veto fight, Congress cleared legislation Thursday easing restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
The House vote to send the measure to President Bush was 247-176, 35 short of the level needed to override a second veto in as many years on the issue.
"For many, embryonic stem cell research is the most promising source of potential treatments and cures" for debilitating disease, said Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colorado, the bill's leading advocate.
"Unfortunately, because of the stubbornness of one man -- President Bush -- these people continue to suffer as they wait," she added.
The president was unpersuaded.
"If this bill were to become law, American taxpayers would for the first time in our history be compelled to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos," he said in a statement in Germany, where he was attending a summit of world leaders.
"Crossing that line would be a grave mistake. For that reason, I will veto the bill passed today," he added.
Bush's written statement echoed criticism leveled in an hour-long debate on the House floor, where opponents of the measure said the research requires the destruction of human embryos, and that alternatives have shown more promise.
"You're talking about spare embryos now but if it ever did work ... it would require the killing of millions of embryos," said Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey.
He also said a recent report by the U.S. Catholic Conference listed numerous breakthroughs involving research conducted on adult stem cells, cord blood and amniotic fluid, none of which involve the destruction of a human embryo.
The measure drew the support of 210 Democrats and 37 Republicans. Opponents included 16 Democrats and 160 Republicans.
Polls: Public supports easing restrictions
Public opinion polls show widespread support for stem cell research, which supporters say could lead to treatment of diseases as diverse as Alzheimer's and juvenile diabetes. Democrats made the measure one of their top priorities when they took control of Congress in January -- knowing full well that Bush stood ready to veto it.
The president made his position clear weeks ago when he said the legislation "crosses a moral line that I and many others find troubling."
Democratic aides said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada intended to stage a mid-afternoon ceremony to dramatize the passage of the bill.
They held a similar event earlier in the year when Congress approved another high-profile bill that faced a veto, a measure containing a timetable for a troop withdrawal from Iraq.
Bush vetoed that bill on May 1, and as expected, the House failed to override his veto.
The House approved an initial stem cell measure within days of convening on a 253-174 vote that was short of a veto-proof majority. The Senate passed a slightly different measure in April, 63-34. The House needed to vote on the bill again to send it to the president.
There was no federal money for embryonic stem cell research until Bush announced on August 9, 2001, that his administration would make it available for lines of stem cells that already were in existence. Elected with the strong support of abortion foes and other conservatives, he said at the time his decision was designed to balance concerns about "protecting life and improving life."
He also limited the funds to cell lines derived from embryos that were surplus at fertility clinics, and that had been donated from adults who had given informed consent.
Advocates of the veto-threatened legislation argue that the number of stem cell lines available for research is smaller than needed, and that some of the material has become contaminated over time by mouse embryonic skin cells that typically are placed at the bottom of culture dishes used in the research.
The bill would permit funding for research on embryonic stem cells regardless of the date of their creation, as long as they were donated from in-vitro fertilization clinics, they would "otherwise be discarded" and donors gave their approval.
New method produces stem cells without embryos
Separately, three teams of researchers reported Wednesday they had found a way to produce embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos -- but in mice. They got ordinary skin cells to act like the embryonic cells, which can develop into all types of tissue. (Read the full story)
In a prelude to the stem cell vote in Congress, House Republicans engineered the defeat of legislation to ban human reproductive cloning. The 213-204 vote against the measure was well short of the two-thirds majority needed for passage.
Critics said it would facilitate the creation of cloned human embryos to be used in research and then destroyed.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The House vote to send the measure to President Bush was 247-176, 35 short of the level needed to override a second veto in as many years on the issue.
"For many, embryonic stem cell research is the most promising source of potential treatments and cures" for debilitating disease, said Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colorado, the bill's leading advocate.
"Unfortunately, because of the stubbornness of one man -- President Bush -- these people continue to suffer as they wait," she added.
The president was unpersuaded.
"If this bill were to become law, American taxpayers would for the first time in our history be compelled to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos," he said in a statement in Germany, where he was attending a summit of world leaders.
"Crossing that line would be a grave mistake. For that reason, I will veto the bill passed today," he added.
Bush's written statement echoed criticism leveled in an hour-long debate on the House floor, where opponents of the measure said the research requires the destruction of human embryos, and that alternatives have shown more promise.
"You're talking about spare embryos now but if it ever did work ... it would require the killing of millions of embryos," said Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey.
He also said a recent report by the U.S. Catholic Conference listed numerous breakthroughs involving research conducted on adult stem cells, cord blood and amniotic fluid, none of which involve the destruction of a human embryo.
The measure drew the support of 210 Democrats and 37 Republicans. Opponents included 16 Democrats and 160 Republicans.
Polls: Public supports easing restrictions
Public opinion polls show widespread support for stem cell research, which supporters say could lead to treatment of diseases as diverse as Alzheimer's and juvenile diabetes. Democrats made the measure one of their top priorities when they took control of Congress in January -- knowing full well that Bush stood ready to veto it.
The president made his position clear weeks ago when he said the legislation "crosses a moral line that I and many others find troubling."
Democratic aides said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada intended to stage a mid-afternoon ceremony to dramatize the passage of the bill.
They held a similar event earlier in the year when Congress approved another high-profile bill that faced a veto, a measure containing a timetable for a troop withdrawal from Iraq.
Bush vetoed that bill on May 1, and as expected, the House failed to override his veto.
The House approved an initial stem cell measure within days of convening on a 253-174 vote that was short of a veto-proof majority. The Senate passed a slightly different measure in April, 63-34. The House needed to vote on the bill again to send it to the president.
There was no federal money for embryonic stem cell research until Bush announced on August 9, 2001, that his administration would make it available for lines of stem cells that already were in existence. Elected with the strong support of abortion foes and other conservatives, he said at the time his decision was designed to balance concerns about "protecting life and improving life."
He also limited the funds to cell lines derived from embryos that were surplus at fertility clinics, and that had been donated from adults who had given informed consent.
Advocates of the veto-threatened legislation argue that the number of stem cell lines available for research is smaller than needed, and that some of the material has become contaminated over time by mouse embryonic skin cells that typically are placed at the bottom of culture dishes used in the research.
The bill would permit funding for research on embryonic stem cells regardless of the date of their creation, as long as they were donated from in-vitro fertilization clinics, they would "otherwise be discarded" and donors gave their approval.
New method produces stem cells without embryos
Separately, three teams of researchers reported Wednesday they had found a way to produce embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos -- but in mice. They got ordinary skin cells to act like the embryonic cells, which can develop into all types of tissue. (Read the full story)
In a prelude to the stem cell vote in Congress, House Republicans engineered the defeat of legislation to ban human reproductive cloning. The 213-204 vote against the measure was well short of the two-thirds majority needed for passage.
Critics said it would facilitate the creation of cloned human embryos to be used in research and then destroyed.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
06-20-2007, 12:46 PM
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Welp...Bush did the TOTAL unimaginable thing and Vetoed the bill...what a fucking shocker 
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/....ap/index.html
Right Bush...you bending down on a knee and thinking about something are really curing diseases. He needs to be removed from office or die. He is using the Veto power to his own power hungry self.
Innovative Spirit IS thinking outside the box and researching other means such as STEM CELLS!!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/....ap/index.html
Bush vetoes bill aimed at promoting stem cell research
POSTED: 3:38 p.m. EDT, June 20, 2007
Story Highlights
• As promised, Bush vetoes stem cell research bill; Dems trying to override
• Sen. Clinton says president, his party have become "out of touch with reality"
• Embryonic stem cells hold potential to battle diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer's
• This was third veto of Bush's presidency
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pushing back against the Democratic-led Congress, President Bush vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have eased restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
"Our innovative spirit is making possible incredible advances in medicine that can save lives and cure diseases," the president told an invited audience in the East Room.
"America is also a nation founded on the principle that all human life is sacred. And our conscience calls us to pursue the possibilities of science in a manner that respects human dignity and upholds our moral values," he said.
Democrats, who had made the stem cell legislation a top priority when they took control of the House and Senate in January, were quick to denounce the president's decision.
"This is just one example of how the president puts ideology before science, politics before the needs of our families, just one more example of how out of touch with reality he and his party have become," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, told the Take Back America conference of liberal activists Wednesday.
Sen. Barack Obama, another Democratic presidential hopeful, said Bush was "deferring the hopes of millions of Americans who do not have the time to keep waiting for the cure that may save or extend lives."
And former Sen. John Edwards, also vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, said the president "had a simple choice today: direct the full force of American scientific ingenuity towards responsible, life-saving medical research or pander to a narrow segment of his political base."
"With his veto, he made the wrong choice," he said in a statement.
Bush issues executive order to promote more research
To blunt criticism, Bush issued an executive order directing the Health and Human Services Department to promote research into cells that -- like human embryonic stem cells -- also hold the potential of regenerating into different types of cells that might be used to battle disease.
If the measure Bush vetoed would have become law, the White House said it would have compelled taxpayers for the first time in our history -- to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos.
Spokesman Tony Snow said Bush's executive order encouraged scientists to work with the government to add research on new stem cell lines -- that does not involve the creation, harming or destruction of human embryos -- to the list of projects eligible for federal funding.
"The president does not believe it's appropriate to put an end to human life for research purposes," Snow said. "That's a line he will not cross."
This was the third veto of Bush's presidency. His first occurred last year when he rejected legislation to allow funding of additional lines of embryonic stem cells -- a measure that passed over the objections of Republicans then in control. The second legislation he vetoed would have set timetables for U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq. (Interactive: Past vetoes by Bush and other presidents)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to schedule an override vote, but the date has not been set. Democrats, however, currently do not have enough votes to override Bush's veto.
Scientists were first able to conduct research with embryonic stem cells in 1998, the NIH says. There were no federal funds for the work until Bush announced on August 9, 2001, that his administration would make the funds available for lines of cells that already were in existence.
States and private organizations are permitted to fund embryonic stem cell research, but federal support is limited to cells that existed as of August 9, 2001. The latest bill was aimed at lifting that restriction.
The science aside, the issue has weighty political and ethical implications.
Public opinion polls show strong support for the research, and it could return as an issue in the 2008 elections.
Opponents of the latest stem cell measure insisted that the use of embryonic stem cells was the wrong approach on moral grounds -- and possibly not even the most promising one scientifically. These opponents, who applaud Bush's veto, cite breakthroughs involving medical research conducted with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood and amniotic fluid, none of which involves the destruction of a human embryo.
POSTED: 3:38 p.m. EDT, June 20, 2007
Story Highlights
• As promised, Bush vetoes stem cell research bill; Dems trying to override
• Sen. Clinton says president, his party have become "out of touch with reality"
• Embryonic stem cells hold potential to battle diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer's
• This was third veto of Bush's presidency
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pushing back against the Democratic-led Congress, President Bush vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have eased restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
"Our innovative spirit is making possible incredible advances in medicine that can save lives and cure diseases," the president told an invited audience in the East Room.
"America is also a nation founded on the principle that all human life is sacred. And our conscience calls us to pursue the possibilities of science in a manner that respects human dignity and upholds our moral values," he said.
Democrats, who had made the stem cell legislation a top priority when they took control of the House and Senate in January, were quick to denounce the president's decision.
"This is just one example of how the president puts ideology before science, politics before the needs of our families, just one more example of how out of touch with reality he and his party have become," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, told the Take Back America conference of liberal activists Wednesday.
Sen. Barack Obama, another Democratic presidential hopeful, said Bush was "deferring the hopes of millions of Americans who do not have the time to keep waiting for the cure that may save or extend lives."
And former Sen. John Edwards, also vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, said the president "had a simple choice today: direct the full force of American scientific ingenuity towards responsible, life-saving medical research or pander to a narrow segment of his political base."
"With his veto, he made the wrong choice," he said in a statement.
Bush issues executive order to promote more research
To blunt criticism, Bush issued an executive order directing the Health and Human Services Department to promote research into cells that -- like human embryonic stem cells -- also hold the potential of regenerating into different types of cells that might be used to battle disease.
If the measure Bush vetoed would have become law, the White House said it would have compelled taxpayers for the first time in our history -- to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos.
Spokesman Tony Snow said Bush's executive order encouraged scientists to work with the government to add research on new stem cell lines -- that does not involve the creation, harming or destruction of human embryos -- to the list of projects eligible for federal funding.
"The president does not believe it's appropriate to put an end to human life for research purposes," Snow said. "That's a line he will not cross."
This was the third veto of Bush's presidency. His first occurred last year when he rejected legislation to allow funding of additional lines of embryonic stem cells -- a measure that passed over the objections of Republicans then in control. The second legislation he vetoed would have set timetables for U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq. (Interactive: Past vetoes by Bush and other presidents)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to schedule an override vote, but the date has not been set. Democrats, however, currently do not have enough votes to override Bush's veto.
Scientists were first able to conduct research with embryonic stem cells in 1998, the NIH says. There were no federal funds for the work until Bush announced on August 9, 2001, that his administration would make the funds available for lines of cells that already were in existence.
States and private organizations are permitted to fund embryonic stem cell research, but federal support is limited to cells that existed as of August 9, 2001. The latest bill was aimed at lifting that restriction.
The science aside, the issue has weighty political and ethical implications.
Public opinion polls show strong support for the research, and it could return as an issue in the 2008 elections.
Opponents of the latest stem cell measure insisted that the use of embryonic stem cells was the wrong approach on moral grounds -- and possibly not even the most promising one scientifically. These opponents, who applaud Bush's veto, cite breakthroughs involving medical research conducted with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood and amniotic fluid, none of which involves the destruction of a human embryo.
"Our innovative spirit is making possible incredible advances in medicine that can save lives and cure diseases," the president told an invited audience in the East Room.
Innovative Spirit IS thinking outside the box and researching other means such as STEM CELLS!!!!
06-20-2007, 07:23 PM
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this disastrous lame duck administration is against anything that calls for federal spending unless it ends up in the hands of big oil, coal, mining, and the rest of the energy companies that are apparently desperate for money
It has absolutely nothing to do with morals or values... it's such a crock of shit.
Ah, and $200 million a day is better spent in a lost occupation vs saving lives. This administration represents death to the furthest degree...
It has absolutely nothing to do with morals or values... it's such a crock of shit.
Ah, and $200 million a day is better spent in a lost occupation vs saving lives. This administration represents death to the furthest degree...
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Bush is an idiot.
If people want to give up their embryo's for research why does he have a choice in the matter?
If people want to give up their embryo's for research why does he have a choice in the matter?
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