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Obama Chooses Destruction of Life Ideology Over Science

Today, President Obama will sign an expected executive order to overturn former President Bush’s policy to prohibit the use of federal tax dollars to destroy living human embryos.

At a time when science is rapidly moving in the direction of ethical alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, President Obama is turning back the clock to use the nation’s monies to fund destruction of living human embryos. This move proves what was stated repeatedly prior to his election, that Obama’s hard-core ideology will be used to promote and advance the destruction of human life in virtually any circumstance that involves unborn babies. There is not a single one that his ideology will protect.

In late 2007, scientists in Wisconsin and Japan coaxed ordinary human skin cells into becoming cells with the same potential qualities as embryonic stem cells. This discovery has been called the Holy Grail because iPS cells, as they are called, advance science without destroying life. Further, iPS cells are more practical to obtain and will result in patient-specific cells which will not be rejected by the recipient. Because embryonic stem cells have the DNA of another person, they would be rejected in the same manner that transplanted organs are rejected without lifelong immunosuppressive drugs.

Not only are iPS cells the future of stem cell science, advances are revealed virtually every day using ethical adult stem cells. Adult stem cells are benefiting real patients with real diseases, yet Obama and his allies want to pour money into what will eventually become useless science in terms of ethics and the benefit of real patients.

So, in Obama’s world, ideology trumps everything — including science.

Barbara Lyons

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