"Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Rulled Ineligible for Federal Funds"

clipped from www.citizenlink.org Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Ruled Ineligible for Federal Funds The National Institute of Health's (NIH) Advisory Committee recommended withholding federal research funding for embryonic stem cell lines on Wednesday that were thought to be eligible with Obama's policy. Concerned that one particular sentence would open up to lawsuits, the Committee decided to err on the side of caution. Days after his inauguration, President Obama reversed President Bush's policy of restricting the use of federal funds for research on human embryonic stem. Prentice notes that embryonic research involves destroying a young human life and more. "They haven't helped anybody. They haven't really helped that many mice in almost 30 years of research. They tend to form tumors instead." Meanwhile he lists numerous advances in adult stem cell treatments from bone marrow, umbilical cord blood and more.

Politics: Clinton interview with Gupta over embryonic stem cell research

In this video, Bill Clinton is being interviewed over embryonic stem cell research by Sanjay Gupta (our next Surgeon General, no, I'm not kidding). Clinton obviously has no idea what he is talking about when he says, & I quote, "If it is obvious we're not taking embryos that can, that, under any conceivable scenario, would be used for a process that would allow them to be fertilized & become little babies..."

Apparently, Clinton skipped that day in biology class when they taught that what defines "embryo" is a fertilized egg. Not only that, at least one cell division has occurred. Things do get a bit confusing here, however. The definition of "embryo" has changed over the years. It used to be "a fertilized ovum that has had at least one cellular division, now that stage is called pre-embrionic. "An embryo is now defined as a later stage, i.e. at the completion of" the pre-embryonic stage, which is considered to end at about day 14. The term, embryo, is used to describe the early stages of fetal growth, from conception to the eighth week of pregnancy." After that point, it is then refered to as a fetus.

News/Politics: Obama to reverse embryonic stem cell research ban

I think that Obama has taken a list of all the things Conservatives support & is going down that list doing the exact opposite.