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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nrlc@nrlc.org [mailto:nrlc@nrlc.org]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 09, 2009 4:58 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Art
Kelly<BR><B>Subject:</B> Behind Obama's Executive Order that Will Require The
Killing of Human Embryos<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P align=left><B><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Today's News &
Views<BR>March 9, 2009</FONT></B></P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Behind Obama's Decision to Sign an Executive
Order to Allow Federal Funding of Research that Will Require
</SPAN></B></FONT><STRONG><FONT id=role_document color=#000000
size=4><SPAN style="COLOR: black">The Killing of
</SPAN></FONT></STRONG><FONT id=role_document color=#000000
size=4><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Human Embryos</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></P></FONT><FONT id=role_document
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">By Dave Andrusko</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><I>Editor's note.
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">"Regarding Obama's instructions to NIH to
develop 'strict guidelines' to govern embryonic stem cell research,
NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson commented, 'These
so-called ethical safeguards are really merely procedural
requirements, an attempt to cloak the fundamentally unethical act of
sacrificing living members of our species, homo sapiens, in order to
provide raw material for research.'...</SPAN></P>
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<P align=center><FONT size=2><I>Pro-abortion President Barack
Obama signed an Executive Order today allowing federal funding
of research that will require the killing of human
embryos.</I></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">"Obama also issued a second directive
purporting to free federally sponsored scientific research from the
influence of 'ideology.' Johnson commented, 'Giving an absolutely
free hand to elites of specialists can result in the ideology of the
specialists being imposed on society as a whole. Scientific
endeavors that utilize human subjects or otherwise pose dangers to
innocent human life must always be subject to oversight by society
as a whole, through regular democratic
processes.'"<BR> -- From a NRLC press
release, commenting on President Barack Obama's decision today to
reverse a policy instituted by former President George W. Bush in
August 2001, which funded research only on already-existing stem
cell lines and not on research that would require the destruction of
human life.</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">In the infamous words of terminally smug
pro-abortion Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, "We won. We run
things now." Well, yes and no, and maybe for a lot shorter period of
time than the San Francisco Democrat believes. </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Most of our TN&V readers are aware that
earlier today Mr. Middle of the Road, aka pro-abortion President
Barack Obama, overturned the carefully crafted policy on embryonic
stem cells instituted by pro-life President George W. Bush--"the
latest reversal of his predecessor's policies," as the Associated
Press's Philip Elliott put it succinctly this morning. For good
measure--and cover--Obama also promulgated a "presidential
memorandum" that promises to make research on human embryos using
federal dollars squeaky clean. Let's look a moment to examine what's
really going on.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Just as overturning the Mexico City Policy
opened the financial spigot to anti-life organizations, Obama has
now invited researchers to apply for federal dollars to conduct
research on human embryos. And just as was the case January 23 when
Obama gutted the Mexico City Policy, very few news accounts talked
about the real agenda of today's action. Interesting enough, that is
not true of the<I> New York Times</I>. (See below.)</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">As always, the Obama team steeps its actions as
an attempt to get beyond the "old politics." Indeed, we are supposed
to believe that the presidential memorandum he issued isn't really
just to grease the skids to kill human embryos, but is to "assure a
number of effective standards and practices that will help our
society feel that we have the highest-quality individuals carrying
out scientific jobs and that information is shared with the public,"
as Harold Varmus, who co-chairs Obama's Council of Advisors on
Science and Technology, told reporters in a conference phone call
yesterday. </SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Right.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Three quick thoughts.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">#1. Obama is going to leave the heavy lifting
to Congress--that is, determining "whether the long-standing
legislative ban on federal financing for human embryo experiments
should also be overturned." The reference is to the Dickey-Wicker
law, which since 1995 has been a provision of the annual
appropriations bills for federal health programs. This law prohibits
the use of federal tax dollars to create human embryos, or research
in which human embryos "are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly
subjected to risk of injury or death." Only Congress can overturn
the amendment.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">#2. Contrary to the impression left, nothing in
what Obama said today limits NIH to the use of stem cells scavenged
from so-called "spare embryos" created in IVF clinics. Why is this
important? Because many researchers never did focus on (or have long
since stopped caring about) what is in fact the relatively small
number of human embryos parents are willing to have experimented on.
They are eager to <B>create </B>human embryos, by cloning and other
methods. Any legislator who votes to repeal the Dickey-Wicker
amendment can rightly be described as opening the door to the
creation of human embryo farms.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">#3. The aforementioned <I>New York Times</I>,
in an article today written by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, goes into detail
about the prospects of overturning the Dickey-Wicker amendment:
"[P]eople on both sides of the stem cell debate say Mr.
Obama's announcement could lead to a reconsideration of the ban on
Capitol Hill, an idea so controversial and fraught with ethical
implications that the mere discussion of it would have been
unthinkable just a few months ago, when President George W. Bush was
in office."</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Many stories, of course, either totally ignored
the stunning breakthroughs using sources other than human embryos
and/or ignored the well-documented dangers inherent in using
embryonic stem cells. One exception came from former NIH head Dr.
Bernadette Healy, no pro-lifer, by the way.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333">"Even for strong backers of embryonic stem
cell research, the decision is no longer as self-evident as it was,
because there is markedly diminished need for expanding these cell
lines for either patient therapy or basic research," she wrote. "In
fact, during the first six weeks of Obama's term, several events
reinforced the notion that embryonic stem cells, once thought to
hold the cure for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and diabetes, are
obsolete."</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">The one thing we can count on is that the
anti-life crowd will continue to push and push and push. We will
keep you up to date on all aspects of this action in the days and
weeks to come.</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Please send your comments to <A
href="mailto:daveandrusko@gmail.com">daveandrusko@gmail.com</A>.
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