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Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen
January 11, 2007 - 8:43pmRelease Date: Jan 11 2007
COHEN TO BUSH: GET OUT OF THE WAY
Assemblyman Assails President for Impeding Embryonic Stem Cell Research
(ROSELLE) - Assembly Deputy Speaker Neil M. Cohen today called on President Bush to end his senseless war against embryonic stem cell research and unshackle America's scientific community so it can lead the world in finding cures to some of humanity's most sinister diseases and afflictions.News from
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COHEN TO BUSH: GET OUT OF THE WAY
Assemblyman Assails President for Impeding Embryonic Stem Cell Research
(ROSELLE) - Assembly Deputy Speaker Neil M. Cohen today called on President Bush to end his senseless war against embryonic stem cell research and unshackle America's scientific community so it can lead the world in finding cures to some of humanity's most sinister diseases and afflictions.
Cohen (D-Union), a leading proponent of stem cell research in the New Jersey Legislature, sponsored the 2004 law that authorized embryonic and adult stem cell research and the state law earmarking $270 million to build stem cell and biomedical research centers throughout New Jersey.
With the United States House of Representatives poised today to pass legislation allowing federal funding of all types of stem cell research and newspapers reporting efforts by the Bush administration to influence members to vote against the measure, as well as President Bush's expected commitment to again use his veto power to block the legislation, Cohen issued the following statement:
"President Bush's strategy of staying the course in opposition to stem cell research is nothing short of an act of cruelty.
"Americans suffering from incurable diseases and untreatable injuries deserve every opportunity to be made whole again. Scientific discovery should not beheld hostage by the ideological hang-ups of a select few.
"There is no place for politics in scientific research. For the sake of all humankind, President Bush should get out of the way on the stem cell research issue."
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For your information only adult stem cells are providing cures
For your information only adult stem cells are providing cures for people for diseases such as diabeties spinal cord injuries and liver damage. In fact, adult stem cells privide cures for over 80 different diseases. They are currently being tested in hundreds of clinical trials. Ebryonic stem cells have produced ZERO cures. Embryonic stem cells are typically rejected by the bodies imune system and wind up causing tumors.
After they invented the wheel Cohen was still arguing that the square peg is best for transportation. Get with the times. Embryonic stem cells don't work and they are not on the verge of curing anything.
So.. for the sake of all Humankind EDUCATE yourself Assemblyman, before you go off killing innocent human beings for your Dr. Mengala type freak science!
Idea: build you embryonic stem cell institues w/money NJ doesn't have
Then turn around and sell it. Your buddy Corzine seems to be into selling state assets these days.
Oh wait the private sector won't touch it with a 10 foot pole because embyonic stem cells DONT CURE ANYTHING!!
For All Humankind..who the heck do you think you are. There was someone else in history who wanted to kill people for all humankind..Do you put yourself in his league?
If there is no place in politics in stem cell research, then why
If there is no place in politics in stem cell research, then why are you involved, Assemblyman?
If there is no place in politics in stem cell research, then why
If there is no place in politics in stem cell research, then why are you involved, Assemblyman?