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President Obama Set To Erase Stem Cell Research Ban
Washington (dbTechno) – President Barack Obama is set to get rid of the current ban on stem cell research in the U.S.
For 8-years now, here has been a ban in place on stem cell research in the U.S.
This ban was put in place originally by former president George W. Bush.
The idea behind the Bush ban was to limit the amount of federal funding that went to stem cell research.
Former president George W. Bush believed that embryonic stem cell research destroyed potential life.
Their belief is that the stem cells are taken from human embryos, living humans.
Others though in medicine believe that stem cell research could lead to cures for many diseases such as various types of cancers and such.
President Barack Obama is apparently set to lift the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, and he will lift it sooner rather than later according to many in the White House.
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bush was right we don,t need to help the sick unless it,s himself or people in high places do you agree
Your posting is incorrect in a few key points. Bush did not ban stem cell research, he banned the Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research that utilized lines of stem cells beyond those that already existed at that time.
Embryonic stem cell research that was privately financed, or financed by government other than the Federal was free to continue.
Let’s face it, Bush was in a tough position. He had citizens who wanted embryonic stem cell research to continue full bore as they saw no ethical concerns, and he had citizens who just as emphatically believed that creating an embryo solely for the purpose of harvesting it for the stem cells was one of the most despicable things we as a nation could do. Bush himself was obviously in the later camp, but he could hardly justify a total ban when there already were stem cells available from already harvested embryos.
The policy that Bush established was a compromise between the two extremes, which like all compromises ticks off the people at the extremes of the debate. Since very few people are middle of the road on this particular issue, there are very few people who were all that satisfied with the compromise.
Like so many in the media, your reporting is just factually wrong. There is no “ban” on embryonic stem cell (ESC) research in the U.S. And it was Congress that annually forbid federal funding of ESC research from 1996 thru 2000 via the Dickey Amendment to HHS appropriations bills, all of which were signed into law by Bill Clinton. Bush removed this restriction with respect to 21 existing stem cell lines by executive order in 2001. You may quibble that this was “too restrictive,” but Bush didn’t “ban” anything.
The funding problem for ESC researchers has been that the greatest successes in stem cell research have resulted from the use of adult stem cells (ASC) derived from bone marrow, blood, umbilical cord blood, skin, etc., which means that most funding from private sources finds its way to ASC researchers. Surprise, surprise: private investment follows successes. This is why ESC researchers are so desperate to feed at the federal trough.
Presently there are over 70 human diseases, ailments, and injuries that are treatable with ASC’s, including, by the way, some symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and many blood-related cancers. On the other hand, ESC research has yet to treat a single human disease, and only within the last month has the first clinical trial involving ESC’s begun. Meanwhile, there are over 1,800 clinical trials underway utilyzing ASC’s. Don’t believe it? Go to http://www.clinicaltrials.gov and search for “stem cells”, then search those results for “embryonic” and see how few results you get..
If you were looking for a return on your investment dollars, where would you put them?