Stem Cell This Motha Fucka

What can be fought but not always won? Cancer. What can be fought and never won? Two answers to that one, Parkinsons disease and Alzeimers. What part of you gets damaged and if your lucky the hospital can hook you up with a new one to replace it? That would be organs. What am I getting at?

Stem cell research has a cure/ answer for all of the problems listed above. It is said that allowing scientists to study stem cells would give them the opportunity to cure Alzeimers ,which right now, once you get it, that's it. You have it forever.

Studying it would also help create more reliable cures for cancer. We might even be able to find an alternative to using chemo against the disease.

When a patient comes in needing a replacement whatever, the studying of stem cells will also help create organs. That way we can bypass the step that involves us finding a donor.

Tuesday the Senate voted 63 to 37 on passing a bill proposed by Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Mike Castle which would allow increased federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. It was only 4 votes short of the necessary two-thids needed to prevent a veto if the president would choose so.

The president did choose so and the vote was vetoed. This was the first veto from our president in his whole 6 years in office. This was also Mr Bush's first time refusing to sign into law a bill approved by Congress. He was quoted "It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it".


The president was also quoted as saying "This bill would support the taking of innocent human life of the hope of finding medical benefits for others". He said this in front of families that used stem cells to create the children they have now. Let me just clear something up with everyone. Most Stem cells in labs just sit there until they are basically useless. If the president feels that studying stem cells to cure diseases is murder, than the fact that most embryos sit in labs until there useless and destroyed is also murder. We're letting these people die and we're not doing a thing about it.

Now a little about me. I am pro-choice to a point. I think somewhere in that second tri-mester is a little too late. Anyways a stem cell is basically the result of step one when a sperm unites with an egg. That's it, it's step one. Whsoe to say that is life. Also whose to say that sperm itself isn't life. Then that means everytime I have sex or lets say masturbate I'm killing thousands and thousands of people. Im a murderer and you know what else, I'm well aware that you're a murderer too.

I would also like to bring up that the US tends to always want to be the first in everything. Going to space is a good example. A waste of money that that intrigues so many of us, including myself. I'm against spending all this money to go to space but any oppurtunity I'd have to watch a lift off or landing I'd be there. Im fascinated but what I'm against. I'll post more about space travel later. Moving on Great Britain is in the lead at studying stem cell research. There in the lead America, don't you want to be number one at everything. Lets get on this bandwagon.

It just seems that science will allow us to move forward in life. It helps answers historical questions and it study's and cures many terminal illnesses. I feel that somewhere starting in the year 2000 we started going backwards. What is happening to us?