Not letting up...as promised

Obama Expected to Reverse Restrictions on Stem Cell Research Funding Monday

[March 9, 2009]

"Under President George W. Bush, federal money for research on human embryonic stems cells was limited to those stem cell lines that were created before Aug. 9, 2001. "

WASHINGTON -- "President Barack Obama is expected to sign an executive order on Monday reversing restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

The long-expected move is likely to stir up not only the promise of scientific breakthrough but also the controversy over where government crosses a moral line.

Obama will hold an event at the White House to announce the move, a senior administration official said Friday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the policy had not yet been publicly announced."

Read the rest of the AP/Fox News report here.

So what does this signal?

Well, for one, it signals that President Obama CAN and DOES keep some of his pre-White House promises (apparently he was unable to do so with the line-by-line pork-watch thing he promised). He's much more detailed...it's now at the stem-cell level.

Secondly, this signals to the informed that Obama's administration is able to ignore science to promote science. It is common knowledge that science itself can manifest the same quality research and product from the resource of the adult stem cell. Others rightly suggest that this process carries great advantages, one being that the host body will not likely reject anything made from these adult stem cells because they wouldn't be recognized as foreign by the immune system as embryonic stem cells would be.

Thirdly, this "move" demonstrates President Obama's endurance to continue to throw money at things that promise no real advantage nor a real future for the lives of America's most vulnerable - or for anyone for that matter. This is NOT the change we should HOPE or pray for.

So what can you do? Pray. Pray. Write your Congressman. Pray. Pray. Pray.

Here is a Novena that was created prior to last year's election. Day 9: a prayer for "Good Stewardship and Preservation of God's Creation."

In Christ,

Vita Pulchra Est