Brad, The objection by Bush seems to be to the possibility of starting a baby with the sole intention of quickly aborting it and using it as a stem-cell source.
Analogous perhaps to using body parts from condemned criminals. It certainly seems distasteful to me - doesn't it to you? I think that each person has the right to decide what shall happen to his/her body - but I still don't like abortion (except for rape and suchlike where she certainly didn't have any right to choose). That Bush would veto any parceling out of government funds doesn't really matter. Private labs can go ahead anyway. In fact, in California Arnold has allocated $3 billion dollars to get things going. I've heard that researchers are heading to California - the 5th largest economy in the world. I voted against Arnold's idea (not stem cell research, but using my money to finance it). Harry ******************************* Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 818 352-4141 ******************************* -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad McCormick, Ed.D. Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 1:09 PM To: Keith Hudson Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] The most profitable consumer goods yet (prayers?) Keith Hudson wrote: > 738. The most profitable consumer goods yet > > Both English and South Korean research teams have announced > breakthroughs in the cloning of human cells. The South Korean team -- > a little ahead of the team from Newcastle University -- have succeeded > in producing stem cells with identical genes to those of their > original hosts in 9 out of 11 cases. > > In due course, genetic scientists will no doubt be able to "encourage" > these stem cells into producing unrejectable specialised organs for > the human body for replacement purposes -- nerves, lungs, hearts, > kidneys, livers, parts of the brain and so on. When this happens, then > they will be the most profitable consumer products ever devised. > Economically, such a technology will be even more explosive than the > development of the lateen sail by which European merchants could > travel across oceans to south-east Asia in the 17th century to bring > back highly profitable spices which helped to stimulate the economy of > Western Europe and brought it out of Medievalism and the power of the > Church. > > Pressure is mounting in the US Congress for Bush to change his > resistance to Federal support for stem cell research. [snip] Bush's [well, I'll provide a quote from Heraclitus about this below] about stem-cell research is kind of amazing (does that mean it is a cause for philosophizing, since philosophy begins in wonder [thaumazein(sp?)]?) Bush is mouthing off that he won't permit destruction of life to help save life. The obvious question here, of course, then, is why the ---- [supply 4-letter word beginning with {f,s,h}] is he destroying life in Iraq to save life? I was also thinking more about "family values" today. They seem to come in two flavors: (1) Helping families flourish, e.g., with government subsidized day-care and good head-start programs, etc., and (2) preventing abortions by married women whose contraception fails or who find they have deformed foeti.... Now to fill in the blank from my first sentence: Waking men share a world in common, But the dreamer turns to a reality unique to himself. (--Heraclitus) Bush seems way off in his Bushido-la-la-land -- a place where even Nancy Reagan's pleas to do research to try to help find a cure for alzheimer's disease do not register. If it wasn't for the line of succession, one could understand someone lamenting that that hand-grenade malfunctioned in Georgia -- damned Soviet forced-labor state industries that only produced junk! \brad mccormick -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
