"Concerned Women" say stem cell research is "over-hyped, deadly"

Senate to Vote on Wasting Taxpayer Money on Deadly Research

Contact: Sarah Rode, Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000 ext. 127

WASHINGTON, April 10 /Christian Newswire/ -- Concerned Women for America urges the U.S. Senate to reject the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act (S.5), which would force Americans to pay for unethical embryonic stem cell research. The Senate will begin debate today on this bill despite President Bush's promise to veto it.

Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America (CWA), said, "This over-hyped research would drag money and attention away from what patients really need – ethical treatments that work – for one main purpose: to force Americans to be complicit in destroying moral boundaries that protect humans from being abused for experiments. Scientists slyly admit, after proponents have whipped the issue into a frenzy, that embryonic stem cell research will not live up to its rapturous claims such as treating Alzheimer's.

"Some scientists consider embryonic stem cells more important than adult stem cells because they are more versatile – which also means embryonic stem cells become tumors whereas adult stem cells do not. The 'promise' of embryonic stem cells pales in comparison to the proven results – not mere promise – of adult stem cells which are successfully treating patients of over 70 different diseases.

"This debate will go down in history as a cynical manipulation of patients for political and financial gain, and to chip away ethical boundaries universally accepted since the Nuremberg Code to protect humans who are subjects in experiments.

"Politicians who vote for this bill insist that all Americans must be complicit in this unethical research even though superior alternatives — which are ethical and effective —are already treating patients. Since ethical alternatives exist, this bill is about playing politics, not helping patients.

"Despite millions of dollars in private funding and thirty years of experiments in animals – the first step before attempting in humans – embryonic stem cells have proven too dangerous to use in people because they produce deadly tumors. Adult stem cells have successfully treated at least 70 different diseases without causing tumors in patients. Once again, the moral approach produces the healthiest and most successful results."

http://www.earnedmedia.org/cwfa0410.htm

so vehemently. I had a LTTE printed back then pointing out that the WORST side effect associated with the "morning after pill" was a tummy ache. I then asked the so called CWFA to read the warning label on any child's multiple vitamin containing iron. (Warnings of overdose related deaths are prominently displayed on Flinstones with iron, for example.) The Concerned Women for America either need to re-direct their concern, or just come clean and admit to their agenda.

The concerned women do not need to decide for me what is ethical and if they are so concerned with wasting tax money I suggest they have a chat with their fellow pro life christian bush about the little nonsense he got us into in Iraq.

And if the concerned women thing stem cell research is deadly I think they should by god put their feelings on paper and vow to never use any medical advances which will come from such research.

horrifying things about gay folk and marriage equality.

:puke:

i hate ''concerned women'' more than i hate any other conservative group because they willfully stick a knife in the back of women.

Regular old birth control pills also. "Killing your unborn infants by starving them to death by not letting them implant".

Sorry, as a mother of two, I don't consider a couple of cells days after fertilization (if they even exist at all) "infants", and come on, STARVING????? The mental images they are trying to create simply don't match BIOLOGY.

I am sure this view will make hundreds of thousands of woman rush to flush their BC pills down the toilet. Yeah, right.

Yes, CWA is in a category by themselves.

i feel very, very strongly about womens rights -- and these guys a re a virtual virus out to destroy those newly born{if can use that turn of phrase} rights.

we've still not see the world where women are given full equal status with men -- even here in the west -- and they want to kill it.

it just makes me so angry.

I need all the help I can get, the pro-illness jobs have discovered it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=619227&mesg_id=619227

By the way, BB--a big ol' :hi:!

As battynuts as these people are, doesn't thier name in and of itself act as a warning that they are battynuts? Doesn't "Concerned" ANYTHING as a group name immediately bring to mind a bunch of humorless sourpusses that want to paint the world gray? Nothing that they say has anycredibility, if for no other reason than their name shows them to be grumpy busybodies.

it'd be like giving a cub scout pack in ithaca, MI a national voice on all matters related to scouting.

They clearly show they don't mind being exploited by the fundamentalists to screw all of us.

Traditionally, many Fundamentalists avoided politics. Not these harpies.

www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Concerned_Women_for_America

Founded by Beverly LaHaye, wife of Religious Right activist Tim LaHaye, as a counter to the progressive National Organization of Women, Concerned Women for America (CWA) describes itself as “the nation's largest public policy women's organization.” CWA opposes gay rights, comprehensive sex education, drug and alcohol education, and feminism, while advocating what it calls “pro-life” and “pro-family” values.

www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22376

That's Tim "Left Behind" LaHaye. (They met at Bob Jones U!)

Check out the website. Be the first kid on your block to get those Right Wing Talking Points! (They were against the phony "War Against Christmas" several years ago.)

www.cwfa.org/main.asp

So I'm now reduced in human rights to the same rights as a few cells. I wonder if they are for non-warranted wire tapping of stem cells. Concerned Women for America's views clearly doesn't echo a majority of scientist in the stem cell research field. So Democrats on playing politics giving funding to a field very much in need of funding. Even weirder this groups is playing politics about how to spend government research money, they are playing politics to force the rest of America to accept a very unusual and narrow definition of what is a human being(based one would guess on strictly religious views)! Wow way to go on not playing politics and chipping away that first amendment losers.

but NOT a cure.

Go ahead, you self-loathing sisters--spend that monay on war, but not on my CURE.

May they rot in hell, every one of them. :mad:

Seriously.