A former boss liked to point out what floats to the surface of stagnant 
water....

Quoting Nic Marais <[log in to unmask]>:

> A good friend of mine summed it up nicely; "The World has turned upside down
> and all the *ssholes have drifted to the top."
> 
> Nic 57/15
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:46 AM, rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > Group Accuses Obama of 'Enslaving' Embryos, Compares Policy to Holocaust
> > The National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children is urging
> > a federal judge to halt Obama's plans to infuse embryonic stem cell
> research
> > with federal funds.
> > By Mike Levine
> > FOXNews.com
> > Tuesday, March 31, 2009
> >
> > A group opposed to abortion and embryonic stem cell research is accusing
> > President Obama of violating the constitutional rights of a frozen embryo
> > and "enslaving" it, like Nazis enslaved Jews during the Holocaust.
> >
> > The group is urging a federal judge to halt Obama's plans to infuse
> > embryonic stem cell research with federal funds. In a lawsuit filed
> > Thursday, the group said it was taking legal action on behalf of "Mary
> Scott
> > Doe" -- described as a "U.S. citizen" whose life has been "suspended"
> since
> > "she" was frozen in liquid nitrogen -- and thousands of other embryos just
> > like "her."
> >
> > "She is entitled to due process and the equal protection of the laws and
> to
> > be free from slavery and involuntary servitude, as guaranteed by the
> > Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendments," said the lawsuit, filed by Maryland
> > attorney Martin Palmer, who heads the National Association for the
> > Advancement of Preborn Children.
> >
> > In early March, Obama issued an executive order reversing the Bush
> > administration's limits on embryonic stem cell research, in effect opening
> > the door for an influx of federal dollars toward such research. Embryos
> have
> > to be destroyed to create stem cells for research, but many scientists
> > believe it could lead to cures or treatments for serious ailments,
> including
> > Parkinson's Disease and diabetes.
> > "That potential will not reveal itself on its own," Obama said in
> > announcing his plans. "Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident.
> > They result from painstaking and costly research, from years of lonely
> > trial and error -- much of which never bears fruit -- and from a
> government
> > willing to support that work."
> >
> > The lawsuit filed Thursday said Obama is "treating human embryos, and,
> > thus, human beings as property" that "may be donated for use and
> destruction
> > in federally-funded [research] ... without the consent of and against the
> > will of the embryos themselves."
> >
> > According to a 2003 study by the Rand Corporation, about 400,000 embryos
> > have been frozen and stored for future use, but the vast majority of them
> > are designated for future attempts at pregnancy. Only about 11,000 have
> been
> > designated for research.
> >
> > Nevertheless, the lawsuit said any frozen embryos designated for research,
> > by their inherent state, are "entirely incapable of giving an informed
> > consent to their use," insisting that every embryo has "a will to live and
> > develop into a fully-formed human being." Therefore, the lawsuit said,
> stem
> > cell research is "a form of slavery or involuntary servitude in violation
> of
> > the Thirteenth Amendment."
> >
> > The lawsuit compared the use of embryos in stem cell research to the human
> > experiments Jews endured during the Holocaust.
> > "The utilitarian thinking underlying [President Obama's] proposed
> > government funding of human embryo stem cell research and experimentation
> is
> > what led to the Nazi experimentation on concentration camp prisoners
> during
> > World War II," the lawsuit said, noting that after all the Nazi
> experiments
> > on humans "not a single advance for medical science resulted."
> >
> > The lawsuit is asking -- actually, "praying" in its words -- for a federal
> > judge in Maryland to declare Obama's executive order "null and void," to
> > rule that "Mary Scott Doe" and other frozen embryos are "persons" entitled
> > to due process under the Constitution, and to order Obama to "cease and
> > desist any and all plans to fund or otherwise facilitate, assist or
> > encourage the undertaking of any human embryo stem cell experimentation."
> >
> > This is the latest in a series of similar lawsuits filed by Palmer over
> the
> > past several years.
> > In 1995, he filed a lawsuit to halt research recommended by the National
> > Institutes of Health under President Bill Clinton. A federal district
> court
> > and a federal court of appeals in Virginia dismissed the case after
> > determining it had no legal standing, and the U.S. Supreme Court then
> > rebuffed Martin's efforts to have the highest court in the land hear the
> > case.
> >
> > Ten years later, in 2005, Martin filed a lawsuit in California, arguing
> > that a 2004 law expanding state money for stem cell research violated the
> > constitutional rights of a frozen embryo named "Mary Scott Doe." Its
> > language, including the reference to Nazi experiments, was nearly
> identical
> > to the lawsuit filed this week against President Obama. That lawsuit was
> > dismissed.
> >
> > Rayilyn Brown
> > Director AZNPF
> > Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation
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