Stem Cell Research

March 9, 2009 2:03pm CST
Today, President Obama signed a new thingy that lifts eight years of restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research in the US. As a result, those research companies' stocks rocketed. I can imagine he's going to experience a pretty severe backlash from US churches on this one. How about you? Do you think he made the right decision?
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@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
10 Mar 09
Well for me I support that move since I can see that stem cell research has a promising future if they would just be allowed to make research on. I think it could answer many health problems we are facing right now. They are even posing to produce stem cell by themselves and not resolve on getting it from the embryos itself. I see no problem with it in the name of science. For those churches that goes against it I think that is a natural reaction like the churches before that prevented travelers going beyond their known knowledge but they were proven wrong when these travelers discovered that the world was round and not flat like they used to believed in. Again this thing is similar the church is again afraid of what lies beyond the knowledge that we are about to see. I say let them that has knowledge study and learn what the study can provide for us to have a better quality of life.
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• United States
10 Mar 09
He made yet another ignorant choice. We didn't need to spend more money on this at this time. bush hadn't banned research he banned further spending for the research. research was still being done just not to the scale that it will be now. our new president has no problem spending money especially if it means overturning something our last president did. it almost seems like he does it without looking into it, just for the sake of using the power. scary stuff!
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
10 Mar 09
Adult stem cells have had a lot of success, why do we have to deal with these embrionic stem cells when there is something is already successful - because it means people will be selling (okay, donating) unborn babies to it I call it infanticide
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@eden32 (3973)
• United States
9 Mar 09
He absolutely made the right decision. Millions of lives could be improved with this research.
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@deejean06 (1952)
• United States
9 Mar 09
I don't think the federal government should be funding something so controversial. There was a reason that President Bush didn't authorize federal funding on this particular research. And if the economy is in such bad shape, how can we possibly afford to fund something else?