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October 12, 2012 09:12 PM UTC
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What is this, 2006? Nobody cares. This is fighting yesterday’s war.
But then, since your IQ doesn’t exceed your shoe size, you are as stupid as Nock.
Well, almost.
people with spinal cord injuries who are waiting for a cure using stem cell research are still in a chair, GOP. Meet Daniel Heumann. Danny is a friend of mine, who was hit by a drunk driver in the prime of his life. http://www.christopherreeve.or… I was taking his little girl for a walk once when she was about 4. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday and she told me she wanted to see her Dad walk. Her mother told me that’s what she says every year. Her Dad is still waiting for a cure, and wingnut Tea Party extremists like Coffman are still speaking out against the scientific use of stem cells from discarded fetuses created in the process of in-vitro fertlization.
Coffman can’t have it all. He can’t say he is “pro-life no matter what” to one crowd, and then say something else to another crowd. He can’t sign the Tea Party wingnut pledge and Grover Norquist’s “No taxes ever” pledge, then later try to tell Aurorans he’s a moderate. No one’s buying the lies.
Clumps of cells. No organs, no body plan. Embryos. Hence embryonic stem cell research.
I’m sorry for the error. I meant to say embryo.
re-fighting birth control and Roe v Wade. What is this? The early 1960s?
A dozen years ago at the height of Bush’s stem cell witch burning, a friend’s son got his PhD in the field, or something allied.
He couldn’t get a job, found one in Germany, and he’s been there since.
Nice way to increase the US’s influence in cutting edge technologies. A-bot, if we don’t do the cutting, another country will.
As an aside, I remember when Coffman became SoS. He seemed so much more moderate then. Is he becoming a cantankerous old fart?
Remember this? http://www.denverpost.com/brea…
….he’d be in front of me right NOW on contempt charges.
“Yeah, but, that was then, and this is now.” What a major asshole.
It doesn’t surprise me that a man who specializes in killing babies got a job in Germany.
You automatically lose any argument when referencing Nazis fool.
You can’t even cogently comment on the need for stem cell research. What a joke.
I thought the irony parsingreality opened up for me was irresistible.
…..for fools.
You have just won the “Inadvertently Stepping Into Godwin’s Law” award for the day.
It was inadvertent, right?
As usual, it turned out to be in his drawers.
Stupid is back.
never seems to be accompanied by protests at fertility clinics that throw unused fertilized eggs away. If this was all really about being pro-life there would be just as much hysteria surrounding fertility clinics as they put into trying to stop women from accessing abortion clinics. Where are the cordons around fertility clinics? Why aren’t fertility specialists being threatened and occasionally murdered the way doctors who perform abortions are? Arap, of course, won’t bother to explain. Neither will good ol’ Barron. But I can. It’s about control, not a burning passion for preserving and nurturing life.
Otherwise they’d be all for providing services for the children poor women don’t abort, educating all those post birth canal babies and making sure every embryo grows up with guaranteed quality health care.
Also fear. They’re scared shitless their control is slipping away.
IIRC stem cells from babies (born live or otherwise aborted at any stage) can be harvested.
Wasn’t the issue that Bush led a ban on federal funds for these types of stem cells? IIRC private businesses can grow, harvest and manipulate any stems cells they wish … that is SCs from cord blood or dead baby brains or wherever they get harvested from the dead ones.
I’ll go to wiki and see what they say.
House Majority PAC and DCCC are spending a lot of money in CD 6. But, I see no evidence that they are spending any money in CD 3.
met him yesterday. young guy. just graduated from college
The reason why voters haven’t heard much about this is because it’s not an issue foremost in anyone’s minds, if it is even an issue at all. This is last year’s news… actually news from two years ago.
Embryonic stem cell research was never blocked, even by George W. Bush. The federal funding was permitted on existing lines and individual states and private entities were allowed to explore new lines, if they found the funding for it. Barack Obama lifted the federal funding ban in 2010.
So… this is a last minute manufactured campaign issue that lacks real substance. Just wait until the Truth Tests on KCNC and KUSA get a hold of it. They’ll spell it out for their large TV audiences.
By the way, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.” This really removes embryonic stem cell research from the equation.
As I see it, this particular ad met the threshold of “vile and disgusting.” It raised false hopes in people on an issue that has become obselete and never actually proved to be a cure for anything.
Seems like they use the exact same talking points… Why not just scan the PDF as an image?
Is the work that was done by Yamanaka and Gurdon practical and being used by scientists in the field, or is it still cost-efficient for more researchers to use embryonic stem cells? I don’t know. I am wondering if someone who is in the field can comment on this.
Question for you (both?). Where does Coffman stand on stem cell research, and from which source (if any) would he approve? Please provide links to back up your claim.
RR seems literate and usually has some brain backup. At least compared to AGOOP. I know, that’s not saying much, but… .