During the George W. Bush years, stem cell advocates fought an uphill battle to expand funding opportunities and engage the National Institutes of Health in this potentially lifesaving research. The political climate improved drastically with the election of President Barack Obama, who lifted the Bush-era restrictions by executive order and freed the NIH do its job in providing comprehensive guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research.
In the long run, these actions will add much-needed funding for this basic research. But there is still heavy lifting to be done on the advocacy front.
I’m confused.
RE: “During the George W. Bush years, stem cell advocates fought an uphill battle to expand funding opportunities and engage the National Institutes of Health in this potentially lifesaving research. The political climate improved drastically with the election of President Barack Obama, who lifted the Bush-era restrictions by executive order and freed the NIH do its job in providing comprehensive guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research.”
It was my understanding from many Christians who are members of the party of the Democrats that Bush and the Republicans had done absolutely nothing for pro-life causes . . . and that therefore it was just fine to vote for pro-abortion candidates, since you know . . . the Republicans were only “rhetorically” pro-life anyway.
What have embryonic stem cells provided for research that adult stem cells couldn’t?
This was all a cover to avoid admitting the humanity of the human embryo.
I reatheer think that the stem cell issue is going to fall in the shadow cast by epigenetics. Larry