Last year, there were two test bills that outted the IL General Assembly's social uberliberals: the gay special rights bill, which attracted them like pheromones, and the Born Alive bill, which repelled them like, well, dead babies.
This year's test bill is HB4156, the ban on taxpayer funded human cloning.
I spent yesterday in Springfield lobbying for HB4156. We're up to 50 co-sponsors. Only hardcore liberals would oppose such a bill. Between 75-80% of Americans consistently poll against human cloning, never mind having to pay for it, which Blagojevich forced on us with his executive order.
Only one rep yesterday flat-out refused to support HB4156. All others either said yes or that they'd consider it.
The rep was Careen Gordon, and her opposition surprised me.
Right before the 2004 election, Gordon wrote a letter to a constituent stating, "I was born and raised Catholic; as such I respect the rights of the unborn.... I have supported legislation advocated for by the Catholic Conference of Illinois and the National (sic) Federation for the Right to Life and promise to continue supporting legislation that protects the rights of the unborn."
I handed Gordon her letter yesterday and reminded her that both aforementioned groups support HB4156. She still refused to support it.
Perhaps the "rights of the unborn" Gordon planned as a candidate to protect were those of unborn clones.
There's only one problem with that. Researchers create clones in order to dissect and kill them.
Comments:
Jill just wanted to say keep up the good work.
I really just found your Blog here.
Please everone remember just because someone claims to be Catholic doesn't mean they are. If Mrs. Gordon really praticed her faith, she probably wouldn't have to send out letters stating she does. Her voting record would show it.
Posted by: Bill at February 7, 2006 10:02 AMBill, Thanks for the wave. And you're right about Gordon.
Posted by: Jill Stanek at February 7, 2006 10:07 AMJill,
You have caught the scent of something about careen gordon, if you follow it you may be surprised where it ends up.
Posted by: john at February 7, 2006 4:46 PMI still don't see the purpose of ESC. Not when adult stem cells show so much promise. Look at the discussion at this forum about one breakthrough for Type 2 Diabetes research that has gone largely ignored by the press.
http://www.islet.org/forum/messages/41682.htm
If this same research was done with ESC, they would be lauding it over every media known to humankind.
My website has information on promising research for Type 1 diabetes that also has gone largely ignored and underfunded. It also makes use of adult stem cells. http://home2.owc.net/~sketcher
It sickens and saddens me to see misguided children and their hawkish parents calling for the killing of embryos when ESCR will yield them nothing in the short-term and potentially teratoma plagued perils and cancer in the long term. Ms. Gordon should know the truth, as should everyone else.
Posted by: Mairna at February 8, 2006 4:22 PMMairna, The true purpose of embryonic stem cell research is Money of course.
If the big companies come up with a cure for anything using embryonic stem cells, they will be able to patent that line of cells and make money off of them.
Using adult cells the best you could do is come up with treatment methods, it would be impossible to patent adult stem cells since they would only work on a limited amount of people. Adult stem cells have to be taken from the person or a close relative.
One way to eliminate the push for using embryonic stem cells is to change the patent laws so companies can't patent any product that are created from embryonic stem cells. I don't understand why I haven?t heard of any pro-life groups pursuing this?
Jill does this sound worth pursuing? Or is my line of thought incorrect?
Posted by: Bill at February 10, 2006 1:35 PMBill,
Yes, and I believe President Bush mentioned that recently... perhaps in his State of Union address?
One other thing on patents of escrs. There is a law called Bayh-Dole that allows scientists to privately patent public-funded research. Scientists have to share patents of privately funded research. That's one reasons for the big push of public-funded escr.
There's a great column on this at http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/13535335.htm
Posted by: Jill Stanek at February 11, 2006 6:07 AMif your daughter got diag. at 5 with diabetes type one and you had to give 4-5 injections a day monitior everything she constantly limit her hear her cry watch her pain adn suffering maybe you would feel differnt this just took yeard off my 5years life ishe has to take insulin for the rest of her life it eventually breaks down your body in many other ways and if i am willin got give my egg and sperm who are you to judge scince is science it has nothing to do with religion i am catholic and i feel this is way different it is nota child it is a specim in a pea tree dish maybe if religion stepped out whe would have cures to many dieases that people should not be dying from in such an advanced country instead canada and japan are leaps and bounds ahead of us
Posted by: debbie at August 29, 2006 11:33 PMoh i forgot the most important thing you really want to know why the government is so agaisnt this they will lose biilions from the diabetic insdustry and the insurance companies who lobby them would stop giving them money since august fourth 2006 i have had to shell out 195 in copays for med , another 200 for supplies and i am going through approximately 10 worht of baidaides a weel never mind that i can not work right now because none of the babysisters i have are caable of doing the shots
Posted by: debbie at August 29, 2006 11:37 PM