I was doing some research this week to find out what the government thinks about stem cell research. I knew Bush was against it and that funding had been blocked for years. In March, 2009, soon after Obama entered the office, he lifted the heavy restrictions on funding for stem cell research. Here is the link for the PDF version of the Executive Order.
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-5441.pdf
"Advances over the past decade in this promising scientific field have been encouraging,
leading to broad agreement in the scientific community that the research
should be supported by Federal funds."
Though, I do not always agree with Barak Obama's "spending habits," I don't think there is really much of another way for these scientific institutions to receive the required amount to study. I think the over all good the research does with out weigh the cost. This part of the EO I really like. Obama pulls to the heart strings here.
"The purpose of this order is to remove these limitations on scientific
inquiry, to expand NIH support for the exploration of human stem cell
research, and in so doing to enhance the contribution of America’s scientists
to important new discoveries and new therapies for the benefit of humankind."
I don't think Obama should have reversed what Bush put into place. I don't think we should be killing these unborn children just because a few people are sick. We should be letting them have a chance at life.
ReplyDeleteLorena, I think you are looking at it from strictly a moral stand point, which is good to some degree. However, I think we need to realize that there a tiny children who are suffering and we have the brains to stop it, yet we don't have the means until now.
ReplyDeleteWe should be standing on moral ground! We should not be doing God's work! If he wants his little one's home by giving them disease, then so be it. But we should not be curing them at the expense of another life.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of life is a life sitting in a petri dish in a freezer?
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