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March 1, 2006

Liberal Republicans Work to Liberalize Conservative Republicans With Embryonic Stem Cells

by @ 4:33 pm. Filed under Nuts on Parade

Liberal Republicans are trying to leverage the issue of embryonic stem cell research, to take some of the “Conservative” out of otherwise Conservative Republicans.

Stem-cell supporters plan TV ads

The centrist Republican Main Street Partnership plans to run television ads promoting federal legislation on stem-cell research in states represented by senators who have not taken a position on the controversial issue.

The advertising effort will roll out this spring to push for Senate action on research into embryonic stem cells.

The Main Street group, which includes eight senators, conducted a similar campaign in the run-up to the House vote on the bill last May, when it passed 238-194 with the support of 50 Republicans.

The television campaign could include the same ads as last year’s, which featured a 2-year-old boy suffering from an incurable disease. The Main Street Partnership also is in discussions with a “Republican celebrity” to shoot another TV spot, said Sarah Chamberlain Resnick, the executive director of the Main Street group.

A bill sponsored by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has only five Republican co-sponsors to go with 35 Democrats. Supporters claim commitments from about 60 senators, which means that about 20 have committed to vote for it but not signed on to the legislation.

The potency of embryonic stem cells as a political issue has been illustrated in recent weeks by the furor that erupted when Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.) shifted his position on embryonic research and cloning.

Lawmakers who oppose the science tend to be opponents of abortion rights and argue that research that destroys human embryos is unethical.

Specter, who supports abortion rights, counts some GOP senators who oppose abortion rights, such as Hatch and Gordon Smith (Ore.), among his staunchest allies.

The most significant endorsement came from Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who took to the Senate floor in July and promised to vote for the bill.

GOP Sens. Hutchison, Johnny Isakson (Ga.) and Norm Coleman (Minn.) were reportedly among those floating alternative proposals. Brownback and Coburn threatened to obstruct the Specter bill.

Enzi now sees the Specter bill as the most likely vehicle this year, a committee spokesman said. “The chairman does expect to see a stem-cell bill move this session,” the spokesman said. “The time is drawing near.”

Basically Liberal Republicans who have no concern for life at the embryonic stage are trying to pull more Republicans to their side, in the name of taking away a Liberal talking point. This is how a party devalues a principle in the name of winning an election. The principle of preserving life is being devalued in the name of keeping Republicans in office. Once Democrats were trying to become more Conservative, but now Republicans are trying to figure out how they can be more Liberal.

All embryonic stem cell research is wrong and the destruction of life. Those lives should not be thrown away and frankly they never should have been brought into being to being with. Unless the mother and father behind them intended to carry each and everyone one of them to full term. Given their natural parents won’t does not mean they should be destroyed. There should be a method for them to be adopted and brought to full term by another loving family. But life should not be created for the intent of destroying it.

Liberals are running with the idea of killing babies in the name of science and maybe helping somebody else live longer. This is no better than stealing the heart from a living person and giving it to another person in need of a heart transplant.

In various science fiction movies, people cringe when they see mad scientists with experimental babies in bottles. But Liberals in Congress want to expand the use of taxpayer dollars for just that purpose. All in the name of a medical pipe dream. Nobody has been saved by a single embryonic stem cell, but they are going to continue pushing it until they can claim somebody has benefited from it. Never mind the trail of destroyed babies used as the means to do it.

Embryonic stem cell research is a very nasty and dirty practice. It also involves cloning, to make organs that are compatible with the sick individual. So their body will not reject them.

True Conservatives are going to need to speak out against this, or the view of “life” in our Congress will be something much cheaper than it is today.



One Response to “Liberal Republicans Work to Liberalize Conservative Republicans With Embryonic Stem Cells”

  1. Fire and Hammer Says:

    Interesting Reading: 3/3/06

    Independent Conservative also has an important warning in “Liberal Republicans Work to Liberalize Conservative Republicans with Embryonic Stem Cells.”

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