He posted naked pictures of me!!!
As a future scientist, I am infuriated.
I have done research on this topic as assignments for college.
Stem cells are undifferentiated. This means that they have not yet become a liver cell, or a brain cell, or a tissue cell, or a skin cell, etc. Stem cells are cells that have the *potential to become any type of cell that exists within the body of its parent species. In lay men's terms, that means that the stem cells of an ape could potentially become an ape liver cell or an ape gastrointestinal epithelial cell, etc.
What does this mean for science?
Due to the ability to isolate DNA and transfer it from one cell to another, this means it is possible to manipulate stem cells to become a mass of skin cells (which can be used for skin grafts for burn victims), or a mass of liver cells (which can be used to treat life-threatening cases of diabetes) or a mass of brain cells (which can be used to treat parkinson's disease) or hell even maybe someday it could be used to create myelin to repair the myelin sheaths of multiple sclerosis sufferers.
I stress, reiterate, stem cells are not people. Not to mention, those fertilized eggs are sitting in refrigerators, not wombs.
By vetoing that bill, Bush is vetoing life saving research. He is vetoing life saving treatments. Hell he's vetoing life saving altogether as well as the advancement of science. Why? I don't think he really cares about stem cell research. He doesn't even know anything about stem cell research. I can almost guarantee if you asked Bush "What are undifferentiated cells?" he would not respond "Stem cells".
However, when those people become ill. All those people that think that it's immoral or unethical to used wasted matter to benefit mankind ---become ill and are dying they will ask their doctor "Is there nothing you can do? Has science not advanced beyond this point?"
For some reason Bush and his southern cornbread-fed Bible Thumpers think that fertilized eggs are "innocent human life". Hmmm, I wonder if they like their eggs scrambled or fried?
They also think that those eggs should be used for artificial insemination. All those "grateful parents" don't seem to care too much about the trully genuinely innocent human life sitting alone and unloved in foster homes around the world. China has so many unwanted baby girls that they practically give them away to anybody who will take them. But why should they care, it's not their kid, right?
I vote we stop electing wealthy ignorant WASPS into office. I vote we make it a requirement that someone must have a doctorate or a master's in some field (preferably sociology or some type of international relations, political science, foreign affairs, HISTORY, etc, but science fields are helpful too) in order to even run for president or any other national political office. This includes senate and delegate. Do you really want an art major making decisions on public health policies that will affect your children? I don't. I'm sorry, a bachelor's in political science doesn't qualify a man to lead a nation.
"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."
Oscar Wilde
I have done research on this topic as assignments for college.
Stem cells are undifferentiated. This means that they have not yet become a liver cell, or a brain cell, or a tissue cell, or a skin cell, etc. Stem cells are cells that have the *potential to become any type of cell that exists within the body of its parent species. In lay men's terms, that means that the stem cells of an ape could potentially become an ape liver cell or an ape gastrointestinal epithelial cell, etc.
What does this mean for science?
Due to the ability to isolate DNA and transfer it from one cell to another, this means it is possible to manipulate stem cells to become a mass of skin cells (which can be used for skin grafts for burn victims), or a mass of liver cells (which can be used to treat life-threatening cases of diabetes) or a mass of brain cells (which can be used to treat parkinson's disease) or hell even maybe someday it could be used to create myelin to repair the myelin sheaths of multiple sclerosis sufferers.
I stress, reiterate, stem cells are not people. Not to mention, those fertilized eggs are sitting in refrigerators, not wombs.
By vetoing that bill, Bush is vetoing life saving research. He is vetoing life saving treatments. Hell he's vetoing life saving altogether as well as the advancement of science. Why? I don't think he really cares about stem cell research. He doesn't even know anything about stem cell research. I can almost guarantee if you asked Bush "What are undifferentiated cells?" he would not respond "Stem cells".
However, when those people become ill. All those people that think that it's immoral or unethical to used wasted matter to benefit mankind ---become ill and are dying they will ask their doctor "Is there nothing you can do? Has science not advanced beyond this point?"
For some reason Bush and his southern cornbread-fed Bible Thumpers think that fertilized eggs are "innocent human life". Hmmm, I wonder if they like their eggs scrambled or fried?
They also think that those eggs should be used for artificial insemination. All those "grateful parents" don't seem to care too much about the trully genuinely innocent human life sitting alone and unloved in foster homes around the world. China has so many unwanted baby girls that they practically give them away to anybody who will take them. But why should they care, it's not their kid, right?
I vote we stop electing wealthy ignorant WASPS into office. I vote we make it a requirement that someone must have a doctorate or a master's in some field (preferably sociology or some type of international relations, political science, foreign affairs, HISTORY, etc, but science fields are helpful too) in order to even run for president or any other national political office. This includes senate and delegate. Do you really want an art major making decisions on public health policies that will affect your children? I don't. I'm sorry, a bachelor's in political science doesn't qualify a man to lead a nation.
"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."
Oscar Wilde