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JillPole · 08-15-2004, 10:26 AM

The reason only 20 are available (if that, even now), is due to political pressure from the right-wing conservatives. They decided to drag abortion rights into this, saying the majority of stem cells would come from aborted fetuses.

Result? Bush ran scared, backed off, bowed down to any type of scientific idea that would DARE bring up Roe v. Wade, never mind that these are NOT stem cells from aborted fetuses!!!

I'm sorry... I just want to puke. My stepfather just received a new liver today because a 23 yr. old male died. I have been posting to keep myself from crying my eyes out. Not just for my stepfather to pull through, but for the family of the person who died. One of my brothers is 23.

It is a tough position to be put in... to think that someone you love is alive because someone died. It is killing me right now.

But that is NOT what stem cell research is about!!!

If the posts look like articles from another source, then STOP! Ask yourselves where the article is from and who originally wrote it. If you question something, go beyond BBS and dig for more info. Make up your own minds!!!

08-15-2004, 10:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
JillPole Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: back in my native Santa Barbara, CA Posts: 102 iTrader: (0) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Setting the Record Straight: Stem Cell Research The reason only 20 are available (if that, even now), is due to political pressure from the right-wing conservatives. They decided to drag abortion rights into this, saying the majority of stem cells would come from aborted fetuses. Result? Bush ran scared, backed off, bowed down to any type of scientific idea that would DARE bring up Roe v. Wade, never mind that these are NOT stem cells from aborted fetuses!!! I'm sorry... I just want to puke. My stepfather just received a new liver today because a 23 yr. old male died. I have been posting to keep myself from crying my eyes out. Not just for my stepfather to pull through, but for the family of the person who died. One of my brothers is 23. It is a tough position to be put in... to think that someone you love is alive because someone died. It is killing me right now. But that is NOT what stem cell research is about!!! If the posts look like articles from another source, then STOP! Ask yourselves where the article is from and who originally wrote it. If you question something, go beyond BBS and dig for more info. Make up your own minds!!! __________________ FTM to baby Zoe (born 10-14-05). Don't hold what I write against me; I plead sleep deprival!