In a move which could dampen any White House bids for Frist, he has now decided to break with conservatives and President Bush in now calling for federal funding into stem cell research.
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The hard right won't like this!!
[ July 29, 2005, 12:17 PM: Message edited by: puckman1 ]
Full Version: Frist now backs stem cell research
Maybe he could argue that stem cells would have saved Terri Schiavo?
Every news report I've seen/heard stress Frist's background in medicine as part of the reason for his current support of stem cell research. I wish at least one would add, "Of course, he was a physician during those years when he opposed this same research, as well."
One thing is clear, when the President and the Majority Leader--from the same party--are in opposition on such a critical issue to that party's loyalists, the President is officially a lame duck.
~Adam
One thing is clear, when the President and the Majority Leader--from the same party--are in opposition on such a critical issue to that party's loyalists, the President is officially a lame duck.
~Adam
Flipflop, flipflop. He is for it though he was against it.
And this is the same Harvard-trained MD who on the floor of the US Senate diagnosed a functionally brain-dead woman by looking at a (very likely edited) videotape.
Why does he still have his medical license?
And this is the same Harvard-trained MD who on the floor of the US Senate diagnosed a functionally brain-dead woman by looking at a (very likely edited) videotape.
Why does he still have his medical license?
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fantomas:
Flipflop, flipflop. He is for it though he was against it.
Must I again come clean up your mess of inaccurate statements? Really now. Flipflop, flipflop. He is for it though he was against it.
Frist, of whom I am not a fan, BTW, has never been in favor of stem cell research as you claim he now is. Some research on your part would have revealed in a statement given 4 years ago that his position then remains his position today.
He has supported Bush's funding of existing lines--funding President Clinton never approved, BTW. Frist has always been against the creation of embryos for the purpose of using them for such stem cell research, a position with which an overwhelming majority of Americans agrees. To create life for the purpose of destroying it so another can benefit is macabre and morally indefensible.
Intentionally harvesting embryos for such so-called research has been the primary goal of many people who are trying to justify this "new" method of abortion (yes, it IS about that, sadly--the sacrament of Liberalism's religion).
It's too bad even many pro-life groups jumped to conclusions about what Frist said in the Senate last week.
Could this be a major breakthrough? If so, it might very well be something that satisfies both sides of this controversy. Wouldn't that be nice, indeed.
Non-CNN Story here.
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