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I got to tell you this quickly, just before we go. I had a word of prophecy from Ruth Heflin. You know who Ruth Heflin is? Ruth prophesied over me back in the '70s and everything she said has happened. She's just sent me a word through my wife and said, the Lord spoke to her audibly and said that He is going to appear physically in one of our crusades in the next few months. Yeah. She - I'm telling you! - she said, the Lord spoke to her audibly and said "Tell Benny I'm going to appear physically on the platform in his meeting.
-- Benny Hinn, is Your Day, March 29, 2000
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News: Politics affecting Medical Decisions!
Posted on Sunday, August 27 @ 19:15:50 PDT by Virgil |
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mick submitted: "Today in National Review Online's editorial section called Window on the Week there is a brief report on a ethical way of producing genetically identical stem cell. It reports on how politics and public relations may be driving science rather than science driving science. The article is as follows:
Chalk it up to the power of publicity. Two recent papers published in top scientific journals suggested that there might well be ethical ways to produce stem cells that would be a genetic match for patients. A third paper, about a different method of producing stem cells, leaves important ethical concerns unmet and would not result in stem cells genetically matched to anyone. Yet the first two papers have received little attention, and the third has been all over the news. The difference? The third paper was the product of Advanced Cell Technology, a commercial firm with a publicity apparatus. We are great fans of private-sector initiative, but ACT’s goal appears to be devising a flimsy excuse to get around restrictions on federal funding for stem-cell research. Its method involves removing a cell from early-stage embryos at fertility clinics. The detached cell would be used to produce stem cells, while the embryo from which it was removed would be implanted in a woman’s womb. The possible breakthrough here is that the embryo would not die in the process of getting the stem cells. But we do not know whether this would be safe for the child down the road, and the genetic-match problem would substantially reduce the medical usefulness of this type of research. For both ethical and practical reasons, then, other methods of producing stem cells without killing human embryos seem more promising — and more deserving of federal funds.
The entire article:
http://article.nationalreview.com"
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