Comments on: Romney: Stem-Cell Solution Is In Reach

National Review Online: Breakthroughs Allow For Progress Without Crossing Ethical Boundaries

[soldat44]

Mitt is by FAR the BEST candidate running for president from EITHER party hands down.

Mitt has the MOST cross-functional experience and is extremely "grounded" as an individual.

Mitt is pretty much a "moderate conservative" which is pretty much where most of Americans are today.

There's no question that he could lead America "forward" after all Mitt's the former Governor of the Bluest state in the Union.
Posted by perception5 at 07:16 AM : Jun 16, 2007

He lied to get the gov job! He said he was pro-life then pro-choice. He is a PHONY!

[soldat44]

Working at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard on Stem Cells specifically mammary stem cells we too have completed similar research. We have found that stem cells in the adult body, i.e. blood stem cells, mammary stem cells, or liver stem cells are able to "turn" into other stem cells. This is called stem cell plasticity and has been cited in numerous top tier journals such as Nature, Science, and Cell.

It is sad that the reputation of embryonic stem cells has out lived the science to the point of national funding.

The time one becomes "alive" during embryogenesis should not be debateable; when the simpliest of single celled organisms, the bacteria is classified as life, than why not a single celled human.

Posted by jjplant at 09:38 PM : Jun 15, 2007

God bless.

[perception5]

"Rather than looking for such solutions, however, the Democrats in Congress have decided to turn back the clock and pass a bill that only sets research and ethics at odds, a bill they know will be vetoed by President Bush. This familiar Washington approach to controversial issues is just wrong. On matters of such significance, we should try to bring the country together, not further divide it." - MITT

....... Very well said......it is time to STOP playing politics with EVERY issue in order for POLITICAL GAIN ONLY. That's exactly why the American people only give this Congress a 23% approval rating.

Mitt is by FAR the BEST candidate running for president from EITHER party hands down.

Mitt has the MOST cross-functional experience and is extremely "grounded" as an individual.

Mitt is pretty much a "moderate conservative" which is pretty much where most of Americans are today.

There's no question that he could lead America "forward" after all Mitt's the former Governor of the Bluest state in the Union.

[jsilver2th]

Thanks Mitt- it's always great to know what your position is this week.

[jjplant]

Working at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard on Stem Cells specifically mammary stem cells we too have completed similar research. We have found that stem cells in the adult body, i.e. blood stem cells, mammary stem cells, or liver stem cells are able to "turn" into other stem cells. This is called stem cell plasticity and has been cited in numerous top tier journals such as Nature, Science, and Cell.

It is sad that the reputation of embryonic stem cells has out lived the science to the point of national funding.

The time one becomes "alive" during embryogenesis should not be debateable; when the simpliest of single celled organisms, the bacteria is classified as life, than why not a single celled human.

[ubrew12]

Romney: "Their work points to a way to produce cells with the qualities scientists value about embryonic stem cells %u2014 but without the need to...destroy human embryos"
And what are these qualities, Romney? Namely, the quality of being fertilized, ie a complete DNA complement, therefore capable of growing, in the proper environment, into people.

Anyone who claims he's going to grow you a new liver with partial-DNA cells is lying to you. Romney should know that the most useful aspect of stem cells is their complete DNA complement, without which they are incapable of growing in a 'human' fashion.

Romney: "the Democrats in Congress have decided to turn back the clock" Man, that is just too rich for words...

[soldat44]

Here's a really good mormon story for ya':
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19232005/

[marcodele]

Many liberals oppose abortion, especially partial birth, and many conservative republicans are pro-choice.

Dichotomous reasoning does no debate any good.

[marcodele]

I'm sure Barbara Bush, who is pro-choice, wishes she had had at least one abortion.

Romney is a pandering hack. He might as well run on a "Puppies Are Cute" platform.

[dvsden]

--Who knows, maybe the liberals have finally grasped that their collective abortions have severely depleted their ranks of voting stock and the embryonic-.... blah blah blah whatever dude.
If you think that only liberals have abortions, you are completely full of it. Most of the women I know who admitted to abortions were conservative or grew up in conservative, even Catholic, households.
You wanna know why so few children have Downs Syndrom anymore? Because over 80% of unborn children who are diagnosed with it are aborted. Do you think only Liberals abort children with Downs Syndrome if the numbers are that high?
I guess that conservative view abortion as evil unless it is one of their children that is going to grow up with a severe handicap, or one of their teenage daughters that gets raped, etc.