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Earlier today, the President decided that taxpayers needed to fund embryonic stem cell research in total. At least $130 million dollars went in to embryonic stem cell research during the Bush administration, so where our current President got this notion that stem cell research hasn’t been funded is just plain ignorant. Furthermore,stem cell research was not illegal during the Bush administration.

In fact, President Bush was the first President to allow federal funding of stem cell research, including, on a limited basis, embryonic stem cells. There were 20 some odd embryonic stem cell lines already in use, which is why the President allowed for funding those lines. Everything else embryonic was up to the private sector.

For some reason, there’s a fascination with Christopher Reeve, as if funding embryonic stem cell research is going to miraculously bring him back to life without the need for a wheelchair.

Today’s announcement brought about more talk of the deceased actor. As a point to think about, I ask, if embryonic stem cells are so great, why didn’t Christopher Reeve go get pumped full of them? They have never been illegal. Christopher Reeve was a famed actor who no doubt had a reserve of money, likely a lot more than I’ve ever seen. Surely, he could have afforded embryonic stem cell treatment. Why didn’t he get embryonic stem cell treatment if they are the answer, rather than being a token victim, even after his death, for the Democrats?

Democrats are even known to love Ronald Reagan now, well, at least the former First Lady. I can’t tell you how much it saddens me that Mrs. Reagan is now an advocate of embryonic stem cell research. If President Reagan had been our President the last eight years, I have a hunch his policy on funding embryonic stem cell research would have been fairly close to what President Bush instated.

I have to wonder if President Obama even researched what all adult stem cell research is showing. If I had the financial wherewithal to do so, I would invest in that line of research. Here’s what adult stem cells have shown promise in treating:

Cancers:
1. Brain Cancer
2. Retinoblastoma
3. Ovarian Cancer
4. Skin Cancer: Merkel Cell Carcinoma
5. Testicular Cancer
6. Tumors abdominal organs Lymphoma
7. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
8. Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
9. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
10. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
11. Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
12. Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia
13. Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
14. Cancer of the lymph nodes: Angioimmunoblastic Lymphadenopathy
15. Multiple Myeloma
16. Myelodysplasia
17. Breast Cancer
18. Neuroblastoma
19. Renal Cell Carcinoma
20. Various Solid Tumors
21. Soft Tissue Sarcoma
22. Ewing’s Sarcoma
23. Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia
24. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
25. POEMS syndrome
26. Myelofibrosis

Auto-Immune Diseases

27. Diabetes Type I (Juvenile)
28. Systemic Lupus
29. Sjogren’s Syndrome
30. Myasthenia
31. Autoimmune Cytopenia
32. Scleromyxedema
33. Scleroderma
34. Crohn’s Disease
35. Behcet’s Disease
36. Rheumatoid Arthritis
37. Juvenile Arthritis
38. Multiple Sclerosis
39. Polychondritis
40. Systemic Vasculitis
41. Alopecia Universalis
42. Buerger’s Disease

Cardiovascular

43. Acute Heart Damage
44. Chronic Coronary Artery Disease

Ocular

45. Corneal regeneration

Immunodeficiencies

46. Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome
47. X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome
48. X-linked Hyper immunoglobulin M Syndrome

Neural Degenerative Diseases and Injuries

49. Parkinson’s Disease
50. Spinal Cord Injury
51. Stroke Damage

Anemias and Other Blood Conditions

52. Sickle Cell Anemia
53. Sideroblastic Anemia
54. Aplastic Anemia
55. Red Cell Aplasia
56. Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
57. Thalassemia
58. Primary Amyloidosis
59. Diamond Blackfan Anemia
60. Fanconi’s Anemia
61. Chronic Epstein-Barr Infection

Wounds and Injuries

62. Limb Gangrene
63. Surface Wound Healing
64. Jawbone Replacement
65. Skull Bone Repair

Other Metabolic Disorders

66. Hurler’s Syndrome
67. Osteogenesis Imperfecta
68. Krabbe Leukodystrophy
69. Osteopetrosis
70. Cerebral X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy

Liver Disease

71. Chronic Liver Failure
72. Liver Cirrhosis

Bladder Disease

73. End-Stage Bladder Disease

What is the potential that embryonic stem cell research has shown? Here’s the list:

NONE

So, now your tax dollars and mine are going to fund embryonic stem cell research, across the board. I believe the President to be misguided on this, and his plea at the end of his telepromptered speech (that he likely didn’t write) for God to bless America is also misguided. In times like these, we don’t need God’s blessing, we need His mercy.

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