BackyardConservative: Sanctimonious Schoenberg

Tribune:

Bolstered by last fall's election successes, the Senate's Democratic majority achieved a long-sought ideological victory Friday by giving overwhelming approval to a measure to encourage stem-cell research in Illinois.

The 35-23 vote, sending the highly symbolic and political measure to the House, reflected in part the gains made in the Nov. 7 election by Democrats who embraced the controversial medical research in winning campaigns for four seats previously held by Republicans who opposed the research. A vote more than two years ago on a similar measure fell two votes shy of approval.

We need to do this. We need to do this today---so says the moral arbiter of the North Shore, and perhaps of all Illinois! Sun Times:

"The reason why we need to do this and do this today is because this research holds great promise for life-saving breakthroughs," said Sen. Jeff Schoenberg (D-Evanston), the bill's lead Senate sponsor.
Researchers believe embryonic stem cells have potential to help in the treatment of diabetes, Lou Gehrig's disease, Parkinson's disease, cancer, stroke, Crohn's disease, Alzheimer's disease, AIDS/HIV and sickle cell anemia, among other things.
But in order to obtain the cells for that research, human embryos are destroyed, which makes the process so controversial among groups that believe life begins at conception.

Potential? Great promise? Name one life saved by embryonic stem cells. Instead, life is being deliberately destroyed for political posturing.

I haven't read in the Illinois press about the recent discovery of the live-saving properties of cells from amniotic fluid. And let me remind Sen. Schoenberg that stem cells from adults and umbilical cord blood are already yielding tangible benefits.

This is a despicable action. One would expect better from a politician who reminds us of the evils of the Holocaust, which also destroyed life for medical experimentation, supposedly to improve the human race. A new Holocaust museum is being built in Skokie to commemorate those who died. This is a new chapter.

And all in aid of placating the feminazis, those who kill their own, putting a bland face on their assault on life---it's for the greater good, after all.