MYTHS ABOUT EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH

Whilst I'm on the topic today of embryonic stem cell research, I'd like to point out a couple of liberal myths about the topic ...

MYTH 1: EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH IS ILLEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES.

Absolutely FALSE. Any bio-med company - or any company or private individual for that matter can conduct stem cell research with no restrictions here in the U.S.

Down here in Louisiana, you can only kill a few deer each year during hunting season - but there is no "limit" on the number of embryo's you can create and then destroy through stem cell "research". This goes for all 50 states. Absolutely no restrictions on this type of research. The question that everyone is fighting about is whether or not the U.S. GOVERNMENT should give taxpayer dollars to SUBSIDIZE embryonic stem cell research.

I'm sure that Bill Frist doesn't want to give one penny of taxpayer money to save the Louisiana wetlands - and preserve the biggest commericial port on the east coast - NEW ORLEANS. But he is willing to throw tax dollars at stem cell research.

MYTH 2: EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH IS PROMISING ...

Who says?

First of all, can anyone think of a single thing it's produced for us so far with the exception of an extremely long monotonous political debate? If so - please leave a comment for me because I can't think of one.

Second, if it's sooooo promising - then why do we have to throw tax dollars out there to support it? Pfizer developed VIAGRA without tax subsidies - and they did it because they knew it would make 'em a bunch of money - that's the way the capitalist system of supply and demand works. Surely, if embryonic stem cell research is so promising, any bio-med corporation that uses it to develop a cure for something like paralysis or alzhiemers is going to make a TON of money! So if it's so promising, why aren't we allowing the capitalist system to function as it's designed to? Why do we have to throw taxpayer dollars at it? The answer, clearly - is that it is NOT very promising at this point - at least not enough to stimulate the capitalists in the bio-med industry to invest THEIR MONEY in it. So why are we going to invest ours?

This whole debate is about whether or not the U.S. government is going to throw money at a dubious science with little guarantee that there will be a return on that investment. It's about whether or not we're going to force PRO-LIFE taxpayers to swallow another horse pill to compromise their principles on a science that they spiritually and morally object to outright - with little guarantee that it will do anything to help mankind.

Additionally, there are FEW controls on this research - few ethical standards for conducting this research that are agreed upon by the scientific community at large. We're going to throw money to the private sector and let them run rampant. How far they go with this research, is up to them. Before we throw money at these scientists - shouldn't we at least force them to draw up a set of ethical rules they promise to live by while conducting this research?

We don't hear alot in the mainstream media about the real facts. Ask any typical American on the street whether or not embryonic stem cell research is legal in the United States or not - and most of them will tell you it's illegal. This is the way the liberal media has distorted the issue.

But for the liberal media - it's perfectly fine to lie and distort the truth in order to reach their objectives.