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Politics : The abortion issue: pro-choice vs. anti-abortion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LLCF who wrote (163)	3/17/2009 5:53:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 286

Obama has NOTHING to do with proposing what type of research is promising or appropriate. That's simply false. The most important reason why it is false is that there was an executive order against certain research and he issued another order canceling the first one. Thus he definitely has something to do with deciding what type of research is considered appropriate and gets funding. Beyond that his administration is responsible for budget requests, and while I don't think for the most part, if at all, he personally selects the funding on a very specific level, he sets the overall policies or at least appoints the people who do. Obama is NOT responsible for the research... nor the "killing of human beings" as the piece claims. Not in the most direct sense, but he lifted the ban on federal funding for such research. If you allow funding of killing to happen than your responsible for it. would be nice if you'd use some information to deal with the issue I posted about rather than vague anti-abortion agenda that wasn't even my point. The old news story and the Wikipedia article I linked to where not pro-life/anti-abortion, not even vaguely. They didn't really address the issue at all. As for embryonic stem cell research the news story supported it, none of that was "vague anti-abortion agenda". In both cases they had details of the history of the issue, which you had asked for.