Obama to use executive orders for immediate impact (Update)
November 9, 2008 By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER , Associated Press Writer
Members of the Secret Service accompany President-elect Obama, center, to his vehicle as leaves the gym following his workout Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
(AP) -- President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.
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if they cant stop him doing stuff he hasnt done yet where's the hope?
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I know the people on the board are very educated. In the coming months, please look at how the media distorts the truth about stem cell research. Bush limited funding by what? By preventing the use of new human fetuses only. Money towards successful stem cell research was greater in his term than Clintons time in power.
There have been great progress with stem cell research finding them in our skin, testes, and everywhere else so we can use our own cells to help us, not foreign DNA. We should not drop our moral judgment in research and start using human fetuses as lab mice.
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and ... testis
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There's simply no moral content to speak of here, it's just a spherical clump of ~200 cells(blastocyst or morula stage of development). These embryos are killed whether their stem cells are used or not(most of them are cryogenically preserved for in vitro fertilization and discarded when no longer required).
You're quite frankly insane and a danger to society if you would stand in the way of research that can prevent life threating diseases in order to save an organism less capable of emotion or intelligence than a potted plant.
Nov 10, 2008
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Choose your own retarded "moral judgment" and learn to spell.
Blastocysts are NOT fetus's. (BY definition.)
I am not willing to submit to your "morals."
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When I ask this question please keep in mind I'm being TOTALLY serious, respectful, and without a hint of sarcasm. How many cells does it take to make it a moral issue? A million...a billion...a billion and two?
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You can no more teach an immoral person to be moral than you can teach a goat to be a sheep.
Anyone who can speak of a human being, however undeveloped, as being less than a potted plant is of a deranged and reprobate mind.
Ironically, if their ancestors thought the way "Soylent" and "Humanist" think, then they would not be alive to vex us with their wickedness.
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