Re: Give BUSH The LEFT HOOK And SMASH The Right Into OBLIVION!!!

FUCK BUSH...FUCK THE GOV'T...FUCK CHRISTIANITY...FUCK THEIR GOD...I SAY KILL 'EM ALL
HAIL SATAN
HAIL CAESAR
AND THAT IS JUST MY FUCKING OPINION...SO HAIL THAT TOO
LADYMADNESS
LADYMADNESS
 Caesar The Terror wrote:Our war against judeo-christianity has been fueled by their constant self-righteous authoritarianism, which has steadily been growing lately, stripping us of more of our natural rights, oppressing us by passing laws that literially enforce their dogma on every one of us. First of all, we declare that they have no right to steal our rights! Second, we will not back down until they are all restored and judeo-christians never again have the power to institutionalize their dogma over the whole! Third, the right-wing must be completely pulverized, and bush's teeth punched out and his toothless goofy smiling face, printed on toilet paper! Don't worry, he can have them regrown, after we completely legalize embryonic stem cell technology with unlimited  stem cell lines, and assembly lined into mass production through human embronic cloning! The right-wing will not slow our technological progress, nor our race to combat disease, and never will steal our rights
  to use such technologies ever again! It is our right to use this technology to advance the human race. They have no right, to push their dogma on anyone else, but themselves. We will not be chained and forced to go through another dark ages, because of judeo-christian religious-political intervention. I'd like you all to read the following articles, which are only a few stories, revealing the nature and goals of the right-wing, that must be destroyed. Damn The Cross! Damn The Cross! Damn The Cross!

Hail The Church Of The Antichrist 999!
Hail Caesar 999!


Stem Cell Rules Spark Complaints

By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
The Associated Press 

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal rules limiting research on embryonic stem cells are hampering efforts to find new treatments for conditions ranging from diabetes to spinal cord injuries, a panel of scientists complained.

``The existing restrictions are keeping advances from being realized,'' Dr. George Daley of the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services.

President Bush, citing ethical considerations, last year limited federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to 78 already existing lines of cells.

But Daley said Wednesday that far fewer cell lines are actually available for study, ``perhaps only a handful.''

Gaining access to those limited cell lines has been inordinately difficult, several researchers complained, citing costs, problems negotiating agreements with the cells' owners and restrictions imposed by governments of foreign countries, where many of the cells are located.

Responding to the complaints, Dr. Elias Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health, said his agency is ``diligently working with as many sources as we can to make more cell lines available.''

Stem cells form very early in an embryo's development and later differentiate into numerous types of cells to form various organs and other parts of the body. Researchers hope to use these cells to repair damaged organs and cure diseases such as diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Opponents of such research say it is unethical because the 5-day-old embryo dies when the cells are removed.

Research is also under way on stem cells found in adults, but in recent studies at Stanford University adult blood stem cells were unable to transform into other types of tissue cells, raising doubts about their value.

Dr. Curt Civin of Johns Hopkins University told of months of negotiations with the owners of cell lines in India, only to have the Indian government step in and ban export of the cells.

``More than a year after the decision (to allow research) I have yet to receive my first cell line,'' Civin said.

Daley and Civin urged the NIH to establish a central facility to collect and distribute the cell lines.

Roger Pedersen of Cambridge University in England said the lack of federal support for research on human embryos has delayed the benefits of research to infertile patients and patients with degenerative diseases.

Pedersen noted that he worked for 30 years at the University of California, San Francisco, but moved to England because its government encourages stem cell research.

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who said it may be time to consider legislation to ease the restrictions, asked Pedersen if other American scientists were likely to leave the country to continue their work.

``We are working diligently to recruit them,'' Pedersen replied.

While Zerhouni said his agency is trying to make more cells available to researchers, he contended the research is really in an early stage.

Research in the past year has shown that embryonic stem cells ``might someday be used to treat Parkinson's disease, heart disease and type I diabetes,'' Zerhouni said.

``These findings are important, but I continue to emphasize that we are at a very early stage. Much more basic research needs to be done.''

He said he has named a task force, headed by Dr. James Battey of the National Institute on Deafness, to review the current state of stem cell science and make recommendations for its future direction.

California State Sen. Deborah Ortiz told the panel her state has enacted a law that overrides the federal rules and provides state support for new embryonic stem cell lines. The California law would allow scientists to start new cell lines for their research.
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'Unborn Child' Coverage Rule Set

By LAURA MECKLER
The Associated Press 

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration said Friday it will consider fetuses ``unborn children'' under a government-funded health program, brushing aside complaints that the move is an effort to undercut abortion rights.

The administration said it is making the change to enable more low-income pregnant women to obtain prenatal care. Under the new rule, states could extend health insurance to fetuses - or even embryos - from the moment of conception by enrolling them in the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

The debate will now shift to states, which must decide whether to add fetuses to their programs. Both sides of the debate predicted battles ahead.

Because CHIP, as the program is known, is aimed at children, it does not typically cover parents or pregnant women, although states can get permission to include adults if they request it. Under these new rules, it will be a routine matter for states to add unborn children to their CHIP programs.

``It represents a speedy new option for states that want to do more to ensure that women get critical prenatal care that will increase the chances that their children are born healthy,'' Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said in a statement Friday.

He called the change a ``commonsense, compassionate measure.''

The final regulation, first proposed in January, will be published Wednesday in the Federal Register. It will take effect 30 days later.

HHS received a whopping 7,783 comments on the proposal, including many that argued the administration was trying to lay legal groundwork establishing independent rights of the fetus as a step toward abolishing abortion.

Some accused the administration of trying to circumvent congressional debate; others called the regulation an ``anti-choice proposal disguised as a health care proposal.'' Critics also argued that, given the divisive debate over when life begins, HHS should not adopt a policy that takes one side.

The department responded that CHIP is voluntary and no woman - and no state - is required to participate. In any case, HHS argued, ``prenatal care benefits both mother and child and therefore does not create tension between them.''

``This rule, rather than limiting an uninsured woman's choices in fact expands them by offering important health care that may not otherwise be available to her,'' said the 111-page regulation.

Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, praised the Bush administration action but feared it will be stymied at the state level.

``The next question is, will pro-abortion politicians in some states cave in to pressure from pro-abortion groups who insist there is no such thing as an unborn child, and so deny this aid to mothers and their babies?'' he asked.

In fact, abortion rights groups said they will urge states to reject this option. They noted that states can accomplish the same thing by asking for permission to include pregnant women in CHIP - something two states, New Jersey and Rhode Island, have already done.

Or, they said, if the administration really wants to get prenatal care to more women, it could simply support legislation pending in the Senate to add pregnant women to CHIP.

``They could support it and it would pass in a nanosecond,'' said Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood.

Thompson has said he supports the Senate bill.

Clarifying one aspect of the policy, the regulation explained that all fetuses are eligible for coverage even if their mothers are immigrants who are not. CHIP bars all illegal immigrants and only covers legal immigrants who have been in the country for five years. But babies born in the United States are citizens and therefore eligible for assistance.

That angered some who were already bothered by the policy.

``It's so offensive to immigrant women to say we don't care about you, but if you're pregnant, we'll give your fetus coverage - but never you,'' said Laurie Rubiner of the National Partnership for Women and Families.

HHS said this was not the first time a fetus has been eligible for government benefits. In the past, developing fetuses were eligible for both welfare benefits and for Medicaid, which allowed for prenatal care.

The regulation addressed some other questions: Does this mean that a fetus will be counted in the Census? On tax forms? No, for both. HHS explained that nothing changes current law.

It also clarified that a pregnant woman would not be eligible for care for mental health, broken bones or other ailments that are not related to the health of the fetus.

HHS spokesman Bill Pierce said HHS would count fetuses in its statistics about number of children covered by CHIP. He said it wasn't clear if the department would break out the number of born vs. unborn children.

The plan does not include any new money for the coverage. Rather, states that want to participate would simply add participants to their existing programs, which are funded with a combination of state and federal dollars.





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