Stem Cell Research: Offering Hope and Promise
Posted by on January 10, 2007 at 01:41 PM
One of the items on the House's 100 Hours agenda, and one of the Senate's first 10 bills of the 110th Congress, is to increase funding for embryonic stem cell research, legislation that both chambers passed in 2006, but was then vetoed by the President.
The Bush Administration and their cronies continue to mislead the public about the truth behind this science, carving out a policy that is based on the influence of extreme religious right-wing conservative minority, rather than the facts.
Earlier this week, Tony Snow, the Administration's spokesperson claimed:
"The vast majority of breakthroughs right now, virtually all, have involved those other than embryonic stem cells.”
That is a dangerously false claim. A large majority of the American people support this research, and Democrats are committed to crafting public policy based on sound science, not extreme ideology during the 110th Congress.
ThinkProgress compiled a list of the medical breakthroughs that have been made recently as a result of life-saving embryonic stem cell research, breakthroughs with the potential to cure diseases that effect millions of Americans, from those suffering from AIDS to diabetes.
Check out the list, here.
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