What Happened To Hot Air About Embryonic Stem Cells?

Last summer, embryonic stem cell advocates railed against President Bush for vetoing a bill that would have allowed more destruction of human embryos for embryonic stem cell research at taxpayer expense. It was a winning issue and local activists were quick to jump in. There was plenty of hot air.

Bob Fulkerson of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada said that President Bush, "with the stroke of a pen, struck away the hopes and dreams" of cures for chronic illnesses. Fulkerson also said "It's a shame (Bush) is kow-towing to a very small group instead of doing what's best for the American people suffering from chronic ailments." Mylan Hawkins, executive director of the Nevada Diabetes Association said, "We are deeply saddened that once again the hope for so many Americans who suffer with incurable conditions has been shattered." Planned Parenthood's Allison Gauldin said that thinking that adult stem cells are superior is naive.

Shattering hope? Naïve? Tell that to diabetics in Brazil, Kaitlyn McNamara who received a new bladder constructed from her own stem cells and others.

Harry Reid couldn't help himself either. Nevadans, you know what I mean. Reid accused the president of "putting politics ahead of safe, responsible science." He said the veto was a "most un- American thing by turning his back on science." Bush was "putting the politics of his narrow ideology ahead of saving lives," had decided that curing diseases "was not as important as catering to his right-wing base," vetoed the bill "with the health and hope of millions of Americans hanging in the balance," and said "our best scientists continue to work with one hand tied behind their back."

But all of the sudden, the rage of embryonic stem cell research has gone silent

Why? In November scientis ts discovered a way to create the same kind of stem cells as embryonic ones without the need to clone or kill human embryos. They are the functional equivalent of embryonic stem cells. President Bush believed in this science and funded it by executive order when Congress refused. It's the ho ttest thing in stem cell research.

It's cheaper, easier, more efficient and destroys the rationale for cloning or embryo killing. Dolly the Sheep cloner Ian Wilmut says the inventor deserves a Nobel Prize and that the discovery is equivalent to discovering the double-helix structure of DNA. That explains why stem cell researchers are moving away from embryonic stem cell research and politicians are suddenly quiet about it.

While there are still issues to be worked out to make them safe, last week scientists announced that not only have they been able to grow the three types of cell layers from these new stem cells, they have been able to turn them into heart cells.

Non embryonic stem cell research is motoring along quite well too. There are over 70 benefits and over 1000 human trials using non-embryonic stem cells. That number is getting higher and even JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, is noticing. In February a study in JAMA noted improvement for patients with autoimmune and cardiac diseases using non-embryonic stem cell research. Last year some diabeti cs went off insulin for long periods after treatment with their stem cells and last month wounded soldiers' shattered bones were repaired using their own (adult) stem cells.

And after almost $2 billion in funding, there are still no human benefits or human trials using embryonic stem cells. The NIH budget appears to be flattening or even receding. That will make it more difficult for embryonic stem cell researchers to get more funding for their research when it has produced meager results and other scientific enterprises are competing for the same pie.

There is still danger ahead as researchers in Britain are creating human-animal hybrid clones. A bill has been put into the Congress to prevent that in America. More on that soon.

Embryonic stem cell research and human cloning are not going away immediately, but right now, the wind has gone out of its sails as other types of stem cell research are sailing past it. That's good news for all of us. This could be the beginning of a big win for humanity.

Another Vague Abortion Poll Overstates Support For Roe

Another vague poll that says Americans oppose overturning Roe v. Wade displays the breadth of the misunderstanding of Roe more than support for the policies laid down in Roe

A recent poll by Knowledge Networks, Yahoo and the AP asked: "In 1973 the Roe vs. Wade decision established a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. Would you like to see the Supreme Court overturn its Roe vs. Wade decision, or would you like to see Roe vs. Wade remain in force?" 66 percent of Americans oppose overturning Roe v. Wade. 32 percent support overturning it and 2 percent don't know. This is to be expected.

This poll is vauge and useless because most people are not aware of the scope of Roe and that Roe v. Wade and its companion case Doe v. Bolton, make abortion legal throughout pregnancy. Before viability (end of second "trimester," six months in Roe) no reason is needed for an abortion. After viability abortion can be prohibited by the states, except for the "health of the mother". The meaning of the phrase, "health of the mother" explains why pro-lifers say that abortion is legal until birth.

Doe v. Bolton defines the health of the mother this way, "the medical judgment may be exercised in the light of all factors - physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age - relevant to the wellbeing of the patient. All these factors may relate to health."

This means that as long as a woman can find a doctor who in his are her opinion says that the woman's wellbeing may be disturbed by any of these criteria, the abortion can be done after viability for almost any reason. That's why the notorious abortionist George Tiller (AKA Tiller the Killer) has been able to abort unborn children for years when the child presents no risk to the mother's physical health, well beyond viability.

Studen ts For Life of America recorded Tiller saying he's aborted on the day before the mother's due date. This is the policy of Roe v. Wade and the policy of Planned Parenthood, not the majority of Americans.

When given accurate information about Roe and its scope, a majority adopts one of the three pro-life positions (abortion for rape, incest, life of the mother; life of the mother; no exceptions) and oppose over 95 percent of the abortions. See our article Pro-Life Views Are Mainstream at the Nevada LIFE website to view these polls.

The good news is that Americans have become more and more pro-life and our cause is making a huge impact. Our efforts to humanize the unborn and the impact of abortion on aborting women, have turned the tide in our direction.

Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood will always try to portray us as anti-science, anti-technology and anti-women. The truth is that when we are debating abortion advocates, the last thing they want to talk about is science, the impact on women or allow us to use technologies like inter uterine photography, ultrasound or pictures of abortions. NARAL Pro-choice America has even called ultra-sound a weapon. That comment speaks volumes about the mind set of the abortion movement.

Abortion advocates are not helped by their "anti-choice" tactics of trying to deny women informed consent-including ultra sounds, attempts to force personnel, facilities and insurers to participate in abortion, efforts to deny parents the right to know; nor are they helped trying to deny states the right to have abortion clinics meet the same requirements as other outpatient facilities and its refusal to report suspicions of statutory rape.

In the end, it's Planned Parenthood and abortion advocates who are the anti- technology Luddites who would impose abortion and who would keep women and parents from the truth. No wonder they keep hiding behind these vague push polls.

Friends In High Places Protecting Planned Parenthood?

LifeNews.com is reporting that "A Kansas district attorney has filed a brief in relation to an investigation he's conducting into a Planned Parenthood that allegedly did illegal late-term abortions, falsified medical records and violated other state laws.

"Johnson County District Attorney Phil Kline says he needs abortion reports the state has about the abortion business to prove Planned Parenthood broke the law."

But, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment will not turn over the reports Kline needs.  What else is new?  I don't like to compliment Planned Parenthood, but they have made friends in high places to protect them.  Planned Parenthood always says they are afraid privacy will be compromised if records are turned over.  This is a ruse.  They know that no names will be disclosed.  They've used the same argument to quash investigations about whether they have failed to report suspicions of statutory rape or broken parental notification laws.

Read the rest of the story at LifeNews.com.

Royal College of Psychiatrists Says Give Women Info On Abortion Related Mental Health Problems

The Royal College of Psychiatrists says that abortions should not be done unless women are counseled about the numerous mental health risks.  They said "Healthcare professionals who assess or refer women who are requesting an abortion should assess for mental disorder and for risk factors that may be associated with its subsequent development."  Updated brochures should be given to women considering an abortion to include the mental health problems so many women encounter.  “Consent cannot be informed without the provision of adequate and appropriate information regarding the possible risks.”

Well, it's obvious that abortion impacts women's mental health, that is to everyone except those int he aboriton industry and the American Psychological Association.  This kind of report could not happen in the United States because the APA is committed to abortion and cares more about political correctness and abortion militancy than the women and families who will suffer for abortion. 

They are no different than the cancer institutes who know about the connection between abortion and an increased risk of breast cancer.  How can so many studies show a connection between abortion and mental health problems and a breast cancer connection except that they are committed to the premise that abortion is a fundamental good and could not possibly do any harm to women? 

Studies from all over the world show that abortion is a mental health detriment.  Read more about it at www.unfairchoice.info.

Here’s more on this story out of Britain and recent information on abortion related mental health problems at Life News.com.

“As recently as December, a new Australian study showed women who have abortions are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol compared with those who carry a pregnancy to term.

“Kaeleen Dingle, of the University of Queensland, found that women who have abortions were three times more likely to abuse hard drugs like heroin or meth than women who were never pregnant or kept their baby.

“The women who had abortions were also twice as likely to be an alcoholic or engage in binge drinking and 1.5 times more likely to suffer from depression.

“‘So these women, from my findings, seem to be definitely more affected in some ways,’" Dingle concluded. “Her study follows on a January 2006 one from a New Zealand professor who found women who have abortions are more likely to become severely depressed.

“Some 42 percent of the women who had abortions had experienced major depression within the last four years. That's almost double the rate of women who never became pregnant. The risk of anxiety disorders also doubled.

“The group's comment comes after one woman said she regretted her abortion 40 years later and another who committed suicide after having an abortion of her twin babies.”

No Hope For Unborn And Pre-Maturely Born With Obama

We know presidential candidate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is no friend of life and would be a disaster for the pro-life cause, but what about presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, the messenger of hope?

There's no hope for unborn children or for children born prematurely with Obama. Obama is a radical abortion supporter who would support Partial Birth Abortion and limited infanticide.

Obama is an abortion radical who not only has pledged to sign the "Freedom of Choice Act" which would undo every federal and state law on abortion including tax payer abortion funding bans, parental involvement laws, conscience laws, the partial birth abortion ban, informed consent, political free speech rights and etc, Obama also opposed a Born Alive Infant Protection Act when he was a State Senator in Illinois.

The Born Alive Infants Protection Act was passed in 2002 and ensures that infants, who are born alive at any stage of development, are individual human beings who are entitled to the full protections of the law. This law provides guaranteed legal protection whether or not the infant's delivery was natural or the result of an abortion. Nearly everyone supports this, but not Senator Obama.

The House and Senate, after initial opposition from NARAL Pro-Choice America, voted unanimously to pass the bill. In 2001, while still an Illinois State Senator, Obama was the sole opponent of a Born Alive Infants Protection bill. In 2003 a year after the Born Alive Infants Protection Act was passed by the Congress, identical language was considered by an Illinois Senate committee. The committee's chairman led the attack that defeated the bill. That chairman was Barack Obama.

In Obama's world there's no hope for preborn children or children born preterm. Obama thinks protections for preterm born alive infants would undermine abortion rights and he is willing to sacrifice children born before full term on the altar of abortion. To qualify for hope in Obama's world, you have to be a wanted child born at full term.

There will be arguments from people claiming to be pro-life and anti-abortion to support Obama. But those are for another time.

We are in another important election for pro- lifers. We are near one of our most important goals, replacing pro-abortion Supreme Court justices with pro-life ones to overturn Roe. This is the day we have worked to see for decades. It's a moment that may not come for another generation.

Pro- lifers should be clear, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, like Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is no friend of life and would prevent pro-lifers from getting control of the Court and would sign legislation undoing pro-life laws and would use his powers to overturn pro-life policies.

Abortion Still Not Safe 35 Years After Becoming Legal

Nurse Jill Stanek who broke the story at Christ Hospital in Illinois that babies were being left to die without treatment, and who was a key witness for passage of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, has a column today at World Net Daily on her fourth annual abortionist of the year award.  Here are her contestants.  If you think abortion is safe now that is legal, think again.  Here are some from this year. 

Malachy DeHenre: Found guilty this January for murdering his wife after losing his medical license in Alabama, New York and Mississippi for botched abortions, rape, and death of a patient.
 

Alberto Hodari: Late-termer caught on videotape in November speaking to Medical Students for Choice at Wayne State University in Michigan, invited despite having been previously accused of killing two patients. Hodari bragged about lying to patients and families and not washing hands between abortions, among other grossities.
 

George Kabacy: Former Oregon Planned Parenthood slice-and-dicer who pleaded guilty in Washington state in November for engaging in and advertising child porn. Kabacy was also accused but never convicted of killing a patient.
 

Deborah Lyn Levich: Allowed her Alabama medical license to expire last January after being charged with letting non-physicians commit abortions, underestimating fetal gestational age, falsifying records, committing illegal abortions and failing to treat a patient in dire straits. Levich is still licensed to practice in Georgia.
 

Rapin Osathanondh: Surrendered his Massachusetts medical license voluntarily last month after allegedly killing 22-year-old Laura Smith in September with an anesthesia overdose.
 

James Pendergraft: Had his Florida license suspended one year in December and was fined $10,000 for committing an illegal late-term abortion that resulted in a brain-damaged baby. Previously imprisoned in 2001 for extortion. In 2005, one of his five clinics turned away paramedics responding to a call by a mother inside whose baby was aborted alive and allowed to die.
 

Laurence Reich: Charged in California last month for practicing medicine without a license after having it revoked in 2005 for molesting patients.
 

Hamid Hussain Sheikh: Indicted in November by Kentucky officials for defrauding Medicaid.
 

Sheldon Turkish: In a case making its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Turkish has been charged for committing an abortion without informed consent, including lying that a patient was not carrying human life.

Read Stanek's column to find her winner.  Stanek notes that none of the abortion websites are promoting the The National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers this year.  Little wonder why?

Former abortion clinic operator Carol Everett once told me that in the days before Roe, abortionists did better work.  They didn't want to get caught.  But she felt that today there's no reason to worry.  Abortion is legal.  How many women are going to tell anyone they were harmed by an abortion.  There's a built in blackmail.  Everett said Roe freed the abortionist, not women. 

Teacher Is Probably Toast After Showing Pro-life Movie

Life News.com reports that "A California science teacher has been placed on administrative leave after coming under fire following the showing of a pro-life film, The Silent Scream, that details an abortion procedure. First-year teacher Randy Yang showed the movie to five eighth-grade classes at Russell Middle School."

I suspect Yang is going to get in trouble since he doesn't have tenure in the school.   The teacher's union is in bed with the abortion lobby.  So Yang won't get much help.  When you think of the stuff kids are exposed to in school, abortion's probably no big deal.  They'll teach our kids everything they don't need to know about sex, but they don't want anyone knowing the truth about abortion and how it kills a baby.