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Finally, Science Prevails
Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is back and the Obama administration comes through early on its promise that science will prevail.
For eight long years, George W. Bush and his religious beliefs wrongly interfered with research on embryonic stem cells and prevented any progress from being made on potentially curing or at the very least improving the lives of spinal cord patients and who knows how many other people with other diagnoses that could benefit from stem cells.
Barack Obama signed an executive order overturning George W.'s ban on federal money going to stem cell research projects and that is good news.
For the religious whacks out there, Id rather save the person I know and love with a spinal cord injury than the already aborted and frozen embryo. Experiments have already been done in rats that have shown that after severing a rats spinal cord, they could inject with stem cells and the rat will regain lower extremity use after the introduction of stem cells.
That is science worth pursuing.
It just shows again that religion is the root of all evil. Two fine examples, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Nothing wrong with believing but, NOT, at the expense of someones health or quality of life.
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