Received the following email from SaveCalifornia.com:
SaveCalifornia.com issued the following news release on Sunday night, Oct. 11, 2009, in the final hours of bill signing by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger:
Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Indoctrinating Students to Support
Dangerous, Ineffective, Unethical Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Sacramento -- SaveCalifornia.com, a West Coast pro-family, pro-child organization, is appalled that Governor Schwarzenegger has signed a bill authorizing new curriculum to teach schoolchildren the lie that embryonic stem cell research heals people (it doesn't), that it doesn't harm people (it has caused tumors and cancer in patients), and doesn't kill human beings (it does, by destroying human embryos).
"By signing SB 471, curriculum will be created to teach children that embryonic stem cell research is good, helpful, harmless and ethical, when just the opposite is true," said SaveCalifornia.com President Randy Thomasson. "It's absurd for the Legislature and the Governor to continue putting money the state doesn't have, plus valuable classroom time, into California's $3 billion failed experiment on embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cell research hasn't produced a single effective treatment, but instead has caused tumors and tissue rejection. It's wrong to lie to children about this."
"The State of California should instead support research in adult stem cells and cord blood stem cells, which are successfully treating more than 70 conditions, ranging from Parkinson's disease to spinal cord injuries to blindness," continued Thomasson. "Dr. Oz says the stem cell debate is over because induced pluripotent stem cells are healing diseases without harming anyone, while embryonic stem cell treatment hasn't healed anyone but has caused cancer and tissue rejection. Morally-acceptable induced pluripotent stem cells, manipulated to behave like embryonic stem cells, have solved the rejection problem because these stem cells are taken from a patients own body."
Research at UCLA using adult stem cells has produced rehabilitative cells without the destruction of human beings. This is worth celebrating, not ignoring.
Earlier this year, it was announced that British and Canadian scientists have discovered a way to produce an almost endless supply of stem cells that could safely be used in patients and research, without any need to destroy human embryos. The cells are made from a person's own skin, carrying the person's own DNA, thus preventing future rejection by the immune system. This is much better than unhelpful and hugely expensive embryonic research.
See adult and cord blood success stories
VIEW Dr. Mehmet Oz explaining to Oprah Winfrey and Michael J. Fox that "the stem cell debate is dead." Dr. Oz says using embryonic stem cells is dangerous and without success, unlike the safety, ethics, and effectiveness of adult and cord blood stem cells:
Text of SB 471
I distinctly recall that Michael Fox was a huge proponent of stem cell research in his call to find a cure for Parkinson's disease (from which he suffers). He bashed President George W. Bush for not being willing to federally fund embryonic stem cell research; except for the 53(?) lines that were released. Bush reasoned that those lines would have ultimately been destroyed anyway. How the celebrities got on the bandwagon ridiculing Bush for this, (and, quite frankly, EVERYTHING!) simply because the President refused to allow the use of taxpayer dollars to fund the killing of embryos for helping to find a cure for various adult diseases. As far as I know, private funds for such research has not been stopped.
Now, we find out the truth. The truth is that adult stem cells and umbilical cord blood research is far more promising towards the end result of finding cures for disease. We must ask ourselves, WHY DOES THE LEFT STILL WANT TO KILL EMBRYOS FOR RESEARCH WHEN IT IS ALREADY OBVIOUS THAT EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH HAS FAILED? Does anyone know the answer to that question?
And now, RINO Arnold is perpetuating the lie through signing a bill to allow the teaching of embryonic stem cell research in schools!
We have a liar bogus POTUS and also a governor who signs lies into law. What an ugly and terribly sad situation we are living through in our nation today - especially for our children.
Hat Tip:
Save California.com