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20080208
-
 John
McCain -  Mike
Huckabee -  Political
-  Religion
- Abortion
- Gay_Marriage
- Stem
Cells - 2008
Election
-  Arizona
-  Arkansas
- "Divided
evangelicals key to election." ... "Widening political
divisions in the once-united U.S. [United States] evangelical community
as [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Senator of] Arizona
Sen. John McCain closes in on the Republican presidential nomination could
hurt the party in the November White House race." ... "McCain is an abortion-rights
foe but his failure to support a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage
and backing of embryonic stem-cell research are among the political heresies
that some conservative evangelicals cannot forgive him for." ... "With
the influential James Dobson, the founder of the conservative advocacy
group Focus on the Family, already saying he will not vote for McCain,
analysts say evangelical turnout -- or lack thereof -- could be key on
November 4 [2008 Election]." ... "Evangelicals comprise about a fifth of
the U.S. population and according to Pew surveys account for at least a
third of the Republican electorate, giving them serious clout in politics."
... "But the Republican evangelical vote remains divided, largely because
of the continued presence in the race of [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] Mike Huckabee, a Baptist preacher and former Arkansas governor."
(1, 2,
3)
-By Ed Stoddard with contributions by David Wiessler
-Reuters
20071222
-
 Mitt
Romney
- Political
-  Corporation
- Marketing
-  History
- Gay-Rights
- Pro-Choice
- Stem
Cell -  Science
-  Health
-  Law
- Religious
- Salt
Lake City -  Utah
-  Massachusetts
-  New
Hampshire -  US
- Torture
- Prison
- Guantanamo
Bay -  Cuba
- 2008
Election - "Romney
should not be the next president." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt] Romney's main business experience
is as a management consultant, a field in which smart, fast-moving specialists
often advise corporations on how to reinvent themselves. His memoir is
called Turnaround - the story of his successful rescue of the 2002 Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City [Utah] - but the most stunning turnaround he
has engineered is his own political career." ... "If you followed only
his tenure as governor of Massachusetts, you might imagine Romney as a
pragmatic moderate with liberal positions on numerous social issues and
an ability to work well with Democrats. If you followed only his campaign
for president, you'd swear he was a red-meat conservative, pandering to
the religious right, whatever the cost. Pay attention to both, and you're
left to wonder if there's anything at all at his core." ... "As a candidate
for the U.S. [United States] Senate in 1994, he boasted that he would be
a stronger advocate of gay rights than his opponent, [Massachusetts Democratic
Senator] Ted Kennedy. These days, he makes a point of his opposition to
gay marriage and adoption." ... "There was a time that he said he wanted
to make contraception more available - and a time that he vetoed a bill
to sell it over-the-counter." ... "The old Romney assured voters he was
pro-choice on abortion. "You will not see me wavering on that," he said
in 1994, and he cited the tragedy of a relative's botched illegal abortion
as the reason to keep abortions safe and legal. These days, he describes
himself as pro-life." ... "There was a time that he supported stem-cell
research and cited his own wife's multiple sclerosis in explaining his
thinking; such research, he reasoned, could help families like his. These
days, he largely opposes it. As a candidate for governor, Romney dismissed
an anti-tax pledge as a gimmick. In this race, he was the first to sign."
... "In the 2008 campaign for president, there are numerous issues on which
Romney has no record, and so voters must take him at his word. On these
issues, those words are often chilling. While other candidates of both
parties speak of restoring America's moral leadership in the world, Romney
has said he'd like to "double" the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay [Cuba],
where inmates have been held for years without formal charge or access
to the courts. He dodges the issue of torture - unable to say, simply,
that waterboarding is torture and America won't do it." ... "When New Hampshire
partisans are asked to defend the state's first-in-the-nation primary,
we talk about our ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions
and see through the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves
and the rest of the world, we'll know it." ... "Mitt Romney is such a candidate.
New Hampshire Republicans and independents must vote no."
-ConcordMonitor.com
20071221
-
Mitt
Romney
- Pro-Choice
- Stem
Cells - Illegal
- Immigrant
- Health
-
 Crime
- Politics
- History
- Massachusetts
-  Michigan
- 2008
Election - "King
said George Romney didn't march: But, as usual, the
truth wasn't good enough for Mitt." ... "Running for Senate in Massachusetts,
in 1994, and trying to establish pro-choice credibility that he had done
nothing to earn, [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt]
Romney told stories about his mother, Lenore Romney, running on a strong
pro-choice platform in her own unsuccessful bid for public office in 1970.
Those tales were debunked by Boston Globe columnist Eileen McNamara."
... "Then, as now, Romney tried to buttress his statement with weak documentation
at odds with the precision of the claim: in that case, Romney provided
the Globe with a vaguely-worded campaign document that could be read as
supporting the pre-Roe v Wade status quo, in which abortion was a felony
in Michigan. ''I support and recognize the need for more liberal abortion
rights while reaffirming the legal and medical measures needed to protect
the unborn and pregnant woman [sic]," the document read." ... "Again, at
that time, Romney did not just pass along falsehood as fact. He sold it
as personal truth, speaking of the painful memories of a close relative's
death, from complications of an illegal abortion." ... "Romney was telling
that tale, of course, when it was politically expedient to be pro-choice.
Today, needing to be pro-life, he has a new, highly personal and emotional
tale of personal conversion after a doctor showed him how stem cells are
handled in research — another specific but uncorroborated story, about
which even the doctor involved has expressed skepticism." ... "Romney once
favored gun control; now, needing gun-rights voters, he has falsely claimed
to be a "lifelong hunter" and to have been endorsed in 2002 by the National
Rifle Association – an endorsement the NRA never gave him. Needing to establish
anti-illegal-immigrant credentials, he boasts of an attitude that he never
displayed while governor — when he expressed no concern over several "sanctuary
cities" in the state — until the very end of his term, when he had turned
his attention to the Republican Presidential nomination." ... "This week,
he finds the need to attack [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidat]
Mike Huckabee on crime, and so Romney has re-invented his record there,
falsely claiming, in a new ad, to have cracked down on methamphetamine."
... "It is not just that these are untruths. They are the actions of a
man desperate to cater to the whims of his audience. What they want, he
must appear to be. " -By David S. Bernstein
-ThePhoenix.com
20071108
-
 Water
- Politics
- Legislation
- Construction
- Money
-  Children's
- Health
- Stem-Cell
- Science
-  Iraq
- US
-  Military
- "Congress
Overrides Bush for First Time on Water Bill (Update3)."
... "Congress handed [Republican] President George W. Bush the first veto
override of his presidency, voting to revive a $23 billion water-projects
measure he rejected last week on grounds it was too expensive." ... "The
Senate voted 79 to 14 today, a two-thirds majority including dozens of
the chamber's Republicans, to approve plans to fund some 800 projects across
the country. Because the House voted 361 to 54 earlier this week to override
Bush, also a two- thirds majority, the bill now becomes law." ... "Lawmakers
defended the plan as critical to maintaining the nation's dams, sewers,
levees, flood-control projects and erosion prevention efforts." ... "It
was Bush's first defeat in a series of veto fights this year with Democrats.
He rejected Democratic proposals to expand a children's health insurance
program, increase federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research and
legislation placing various conditions on Iraq war funding." -By
Brian Faler -Bloomberg
20070905
-
Mitt
Romney
- Money
- Abortion
- Immigration
- Stem
Cell - Massachusetts
- 2008
Election -
 Reference
-  Online
- "Democrats
unveil a file on Romney: Tout exhaustive site as
online weapon." ... "The Massachusetts Democratic Party is launching today
a first-of-its-kind website that it says contains an unparalleled repository
of information about [2008 election Republican Presidential Candidate]
Mitt Romney's record that could be used against the former [Massachusetts]
governor in his White House run." ... "RomneyFacts.com
lays out a wealth of documents: personal financial disclosure statements
he filed as governor; policy proposals he put forward in his 2002 campaign;
several old campaign ads; and a unique searchable database of campaign
contributions from his entire political career." ... "RomneyFacts.com
is clearly a partisan clearinghouse, painting Romney as a "flip-flopper"
who has traded in the moderate Republican credentials he presented as a
candidate for governor in 2002 for a new set of conservative beliefs in
his campaign for president." ... "Its home page compares statements "Massachusetts
Mitt" made on abortion, immigration, stem cell research, and other hot-button
issues with those made by "Red State Romney."" -By
Lisa Wangsness -Boston/Globe
20070815
-
Mitt
Romney
- Stem
Cell - Politics
- Legislation
- Abortion
- 2008
Election - US
- Mass
-
 Danish
- "Romney
in Stem Cell Biz, Despite Political Opposition: Campaign
Insists Investments Are in Blind Trust Only." ... "Among the investments
in [2008 election Republican Presidential Candidate] Mitt Romney's vast
portfolio worth upward of $287 million are two companies that perform or
support stem cell research." ... "The former Massachusetts governor opposes
the creation of new lines of human stem cells for research and vetoed a
stem cell research bill as governor. He has said it was while considering
that legislation that he evolved to his current opposition to abortion."
... "Many abortion opponents also oppose embryonic stem cell research,
because it is conducted on cellular lines from embryos." ... "Romney's
investments are in Novo Nordisk, a Danish company, and Millipore Corp.,
based in Billerica, Mass. According to their Public Financial Disclosure
Form released Monday, the Romneys -- Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann -- jointly
own shares in Novo Nordisk, valued between $100,101 to $250,000. They also
have a mutual fund investment that includes shares in Millipore, which
supplies research tools and human embryonic stem cells to researchers.
" (1, 2)
-By Ron Claiborne -ABCNEWS.com
20070802
-
 South
Korea - US
-  Human
- Stem
Cell - History
- Massachusetts
- Medical
- "Korean
Cloner Redeemed... Sort Of." ... "In a study published
today in the journal Cell Stem Cell, a team of Harvard [Massachusetts]
researchers reveals that the dubious stem cells created by [South] Korean
scientist Woo Suk Hwang were indeed historic, just not for the reason that
he originally claimed." ... "In 2004, the world heralded Hwang, who reported
that he had created the world's first human embryonic stem cells using
a delicate cloning technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).
If Hwang had actually done what he had claimed, he would certainly have
brought stem-cell-based therapies closer to reality, by making it possible
to develop patient-specific cells to treat diseases from diabetes to Parkinson's.
Two years after his announcement, however, allegations of fraud led to
an investigation by an independent committee of scientists, which failed
to verify his findings, and Hwang and his feat were discredited; last year
he and his principal researchers were fired from their posts at Seoul National
University." ... "But the new study,
led by Dr. George Daley at the Children's Hospital in Boston [Massachusetts],
shows that Hwang's stem cell line contains the first human cells to be
generated not through SCNT, but through a process called parthenogenesis,
sometimes referred to as virgin birth, since development is sparked spontaneously
from the egg alone, rather than from the union of egg and sperm." ... "In
nuclear transfer, stem cells are created by inserting the nucleus from
a donor's cell, usually a skin cell, into an egg cell, whose DNA-containing
nucleus has been removed. The new cell then starts to divide and produce
stem cells." -By Alice Park
-TIME.com
20070711
-
Noteworthy
- Political
- Theology
-
 Government
- Health
- Stem
Cell - Teen
- Parent
-  Oil
-  Global
-  Climate
-  Environmental
- Science
- "Ex-surgeon
general faults White House: Richard Carmona says
the administration 'simply buried' his scientific data on such issues as
stem cell research and teen pregnancy." ... "[Republican] President Bush's
first surgeon general testified Tuesday that his speeches were censored
to match administration political positions and that he was prevented from
giving the public accurate scientific information on issues such as stem
cell research and teen pregnancy prevention." ... ""Anything that doesn't
fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political
agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried," Dr. Richard H. Carmona,
who was surgeon general from 2002 to 2006, told a congressional committee.
"The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation — not the
doctor of a political party."" ... "Early in the administration, when the
issue of federal funding for stem cell research arose, Carmona said, he
felt he could play an educational role by discussing the latest scientific
research. Instead, he said, he was told to "stand down" because the White
House already had made a decision to limit stem cell studies. He said administration
appointees who reviewed his speech texts deleted references to stem cells."
... "Carmona's remarks were the latest in a series of complaints from government
scientists about what they say are administration efforts to control —
and sometimes distort — scientific evidence in order to support policy
decisions." ... "NASA scientists have complained, for example, of political
pressure to tone down warnings about global warming. Environmental Protection
Agency officials have complained that technical information on such subjects
as power plant emissions and oil drilling have been ignored." -By
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar -LAtimes
20070621
-
Stem
Cell - Health
- Science
- Money
- Government
- Law
- 2008
Election - "Bush
vetoes stem cell research funding." ... "The battle
over the use of human embryonic stem cells in scientific experiments is
likely to become an important issue in next year's US [2008] presidential
elections after [Republican] George Bush last night vetoed attempts to
lift restrictions on federal funding for the research." ... "The presidential
veto - only the third of Mr Bush's term in the White House -effectively
knocks any freeing up of funding for stem cell research into the long grass
until after the elections in November 2008." ... "The Democrats lack sufficient
support among Republican dissenters to secure a two-thirds majority in
both houses of Congress needed to overturn the veto." -By
Ed Pilkington -Guardian.co.uk
20070607
-
Stem
Cell - Science
- Money
- Alzheimer's
- Health
- Politics
- 2008
Election -
 MD
- "House
OKs stem cell research bill." ... "Making good on
a key campaign promise and reigniting a longstanding ethical controversy,
the House approved legislation Thursday to expand federal funding of embryonic
stem cell research in the search for cures to diseases such as Parkinson's,
Alzheimer's and juvenile diabetes." ... "The bill now goes to the White
House, and President Bush promised to veto it when he returns from Europe
next week. He said Thursday that the House "chose to discard existing protections
on human life."" ... "The Senate also has passed the stem cell measure,
but supporters in both chambers have fallen short of the two-thirds majority
necessary to override a veto." ... "Still, the Democratic Congress' passage
of the bill which is also supported by a number of high-profile Republicans,
including Nancy Reagan forces Bush into the position of rejecting a popular
bill and reinforces a political confrontation that will doubtless reach
into the 2008 presidential contest." ... ""This legislation does not seek
to destroy life, it seeks to preserve life," said House Majority Leader
[Democratic Representative] Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), noting that the embryos
would be discarded by fertility clinics in any case. "We have a moral obligation
to provide our scientific community with the tools it needs to save lives,
and this legislation accomplishes exactly that."" -By
Jill Zuckman -ChicagoTribune
20061108
-
2006
Election - Government
- Money
- Abortion
- Health
- Stem
Cells - Science
- "GOP
already starts the 'blame game' over its big losses."
... "Dick Armey, former House majority leader and an architect of the Republicans'
1994 takeover of Congress, told National Public Radio's Diane Rehm that
the GOP had become the big government party. "They actually grew the government,"
he said." ... "The Republican Majority for Choice, a lobbying group for
Republicans who support abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research,
blamed the losses Tuesday on Iraq and "social extremism," Co-chairwoman
Jennifer Stockman said. "Moderates have been alienated for years. This
was the last straw."" -By Emily Bazar
-USATODAY
20060720
-
Karl
Rove
- Stem
Cell - Health
- Science
-
 Oregon
-  Missouri
- "Experts
rip Rove stem cell remark: Researchers doubt value
of adult cells." ... "When White House political adviser Karl Rove signaled
last week that President Bush planned to veto the stem cell bill being
considered by the Senate, the reasons he gave went beyond the president's
moral qualms with research on human embryos." ... "In fact, Rove waded
into deeply contentious scientific territory, telling the Denver Post's
editorial board that researchers have found "far more promise from adult
stem cells than from embryonic stem cells."" ... "But Rove's negative appraisal
of embryonic stem cell research--echoed by many opponents of funding for
such research--is inaccurate, according to most stem cell research scientists,
including a dozen contacted for this story." ... ""[Rove's] statement is
just not true," said Dr. Michael Clarke, associate director of the stem
cell institute at Stanford University, who in 2003 published the first
study showing how adult stem cells replenish themselves." ... "Dr. Markus
Grompe, director of the stem cell center at the Oregon Health and Science
University, is a Catholic who objects to research involving the destruction
of embryos and is seeking alternative ways of making stem cells. But Grompe
said there is "no factual basis to compare the promise" of adult stem cells
and cells taken from embryos." ... "Last week, the journal Science published
a letter from three researchers criticizing the claim that adult stem cells
are preferable to embryonic stem cells. The authors included Dr. Steven
Teitelbaum of Washington University in St. Louis [Missouri], who has used
adult stem cells to treat bone diseases in children. The authors wrote
that the exaggerated claims for adult stem cells "mislead laypeople and
cruelly deceive patients."" -By Jeremy Manier and
Judith Graham -ChicagoTribune
20060719
-
Stem
Cell - Health
- Science
- Law
- Government
- Money
- 2006
Election - "Bush
rejects stem cell bill with his first veto." ...
"President Bush issued his first veto in 5½ years in office Wednesday,
rejecting a bill that would have overturned his policy limiting federal
funding for embryonic stem cell research." ... "Bush's veto came in the
face of strong public support for research and bipartisan congressional
backing for the bill." ... "Bush has signed 1,130 bills since becoming
president. Wednesday's veto and legislative action capped years of fierce,
personal debate about science and morality that divided Bush's Republican
Party
and is already spilling into the [2006] fall elections." -By
Richard Benedetto and Andrea Stone -USATODAY
-
Stem
Cell - Medical
- Science
- Legislation
- "Bush
Vetoes Stem Cell Bill: President Uses First Veto
To Stop Expansion Of Federal Stem Cell Funding." ... "President Bush issued
the first veto of his 5½-year presidency on Wednesday, rejecting
legislation that would ease limits on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell
research." ... "Later Wednesday, the House failed to override Mr. Bush's
veto. The vote was 235-193 to override, 50 votes short of the two-thirds
majority required to send the question to the Senate." ... "Some scientists,
and now a majority of Congress, argue that most leftover frozen embryos
would not become human life, but could save lives." ... ""The fact is that
there are hundreds of thousands of embryos that are destined to be discarded
as medical waste. They could be put to very good use in medical research,"
Dr. George Daley of Harvard University's Stem Cell Institute tells Borger."
-AP via
-CBSNews
20051223
-
South
Korea - Stem
Cell - Cloning
- Animals
- "S.Korean
panel says stem-cell result fabricated." ... "South
Korea's most famous scientist quit under a cloud on Friday and could face
prosecution after investigators said results in a landmark 2005 paper on
producing tailored embryonic stem cells were intentionally fabricated."
... "A panel from Seoul National University has been examining the work
of Hwang Woo-suk, hitherto regarded in South Korea as a hero for bringing
the country to the forefront of stem-cell and cloning studies -- and the
world the first cloned dog." ... "Roe [Jung-hye, Seoul National University's
research office chief,] said the panel would now also investigate the dog
cloning and a 2004 academic paper on cloning the first human embryos for
research that has also fallen under suspicion." (1, 2)
-By Jon Herskovitz and Kim Yeon-hee -Reuters
-
South
Korea - Stem
Cells - Cloning
- Genetics
- Health
- US
- "S.
Korean's Stem Cell Data Fake, Panel Says." ... "A
panel investigating the work of South Korean cloning pioneer Hwang Woo
Suk has concluded that he deliberately fabricated key data in a landmark
paper this year, offering the first evidence of what is potentially one
of the greatest frauds in modern science." ... "The expert panel at Seoul
National University, where Hwang conducted his research, found that nine
of 11 stem cell lines he claimed to have created did not exist." ... "Hwang's
paper, published in May by the U.S. journal Science, purported to describe
the creation of 11 human embryo clones using DNA from patients suffering
from spinal cord injuries and genetic diseases. No other research group
has succeeded in cloning human embryos, though many have been trying."
... "Hwang's team claimed it used the embryos to create individualized
lines of stem cells that were perfect genetic matches to the 11 patients.
The achievement, known as therapeutic cloning, was believed to be the first
step toward creating personalized stem cell therapies for patients." (1,
2)
-By Barbara Demick and Karen Kaplan with contribution
by Jinna Park and -AP
-LAtimes
20051206
-
 Christmas
- Stem
Cells - Parents
- "With
love at Christmas - a set of stem cells." ... "Christmas
shopping for the unborn baby has never been easy. However, stem cell technology
may have brought what is possibly this year's most original gift. For a
mere £1,250, it is possible to harvest stem cells from the umbilical
cord at birth and store them frozen for up to 25 years." ... ""Stem cells
are not just for life - they're for Christmas," said Shamshad Ahmed, managing
director of Smart Cells International, a company offering stem cell gift
certificates as a new line this year." -By John Carvel
-Guardian.co.uk
20051114
-
South
Korea - US
-
 Pennsylvania
- Stem
Cells - "Embryo
scientist quits team over ethics fear." ... "A leading
American researcher in embryology has ended a 20-month partnership with
his South Korean counterparts, claiming they flouted ethical rules and
then lied about their practices." ... "Gerald Schatten, of the University
of Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania], said he would no longer work with the cloning
pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk, following allegations that eggs were taken from
a junior scientist in violation of rules meant to prevent coercion." ...
"Professor Hwang gained worldwide attention after announcing last year
that his team at Seoul National University had cloned the world's first
human embryos and extracted stem cells from them. In May, he announced
he had created the world's first embryonic stem cells that genetically
matched injured or sick patients - a huge step in the quest to grow patients'
own replacement tissue for treating diseases." -By
Gary Younge -Guardian.co.uk
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