Before and during much of the 2008 election I had no clue who Barrack Obama was, but when I found out he was a promising black presidential candidate I quickly realized that I didn't care. Had I paid more attention to his campaign I would have known that he supports stem cell research and planned to expand the field, a goal that he has certainly reached. The Bush administration " limited the research to 21 cell lines already in existence" but under Obama's administration the National Institutes of Health can "provide $78 million to 44 scientists." I should probably mention that the embryos are donated from fertility clinic patients who no longer have any use for the embryo they had created, these embryo are destroyed in the process of obtaining stem cells .Last month a ban on federal spending was passed that would suspend all stem cell research leaving countless highly advanced specimen, in need of constant care, to parish. There is no need to worry though because recently an appeal was passed that allows for the continuation of funding while the ban is being reviewed.Obama's administration claims that this "could save research mice from being euthanized, cells in petri dishes from starving and scores of scientists from a suspension of paychecks." Stem cells may be a science that saves countless lives, but the sound the destruction of several day old embryos rings sweetly in my ears. In my honest opinion a man willing to pay for the murder of unwanted babies is truly a man fit to be America's president.
source:The New York Times
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