GOP is against stem cell research. What is the GOP for?

[BirminghamExaminer]

EXCERPT:

Objections to stem cell research by members of the Republican party like Representative Chris Smith (R), are based on the religious belief that embryonic stem cells are human beings and should be treated like human beings. Religious arguments against stem cell research often use the term, "slippery slope" to describe what might happen should we allow science to use left over embryonic stem cells for medical research. Smith and others, believe that the embryonic stem cells should not be discarded or donated to science. Smith argues that the embryonic cells don't "belong" to anybody, that human beings are not possessions and should therefore not be thrown out or used by science. Representative Smith was on "Hardball" with Chris Matthews to argue his point. (video)

Smith and others who argue thus, are on a slippery slope themselves. If the embryonic cells aren't the property of the couples who created them with the aid of fertility doctors (science and medicine), then what are they? Should a couple be forced to allow their embryos to be implanted and adopted out to strangers? If Smith and others like him have their way does that mean that couples who choose fertility treatments in order to reproduce lose their reproductive rights and must be forced to hand over their embryonic stem cells to the government to choose who gets to have the embryo implanted and then adopted?

The Republican party is defined today by what it is against and many of the issues are grounded, ostensibly, in religious belief. When did the Republican party begin its mission to legislate their own beliefs? Some believe the evangelical Christian conservative movement began in the 1970s with activists like Francis Schaeffer who wrote "The Christian Manifesto" urging Christian conservatives to get involved in politics and policy making. Francis Schaeffer's son Frank was on CNN recently with D.L. Hughley promoting his book, "Crazy for God." Schaeffer explains why the Christian right wasn't able to get a candidate in the White House this time around. (video)

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[Chipper Chat]

1. What is the GOP for?

1) Missionary position sex only once a month by married couples of child-bearing age only.
2) Elimination of homosexuals from the USA (deport them)
3) Xenophobia
4) Wars
5) No government - a theocratical police state preferred.
6) No abortions - even if an 11-yr-old girl is raped by a moron mongoloid.
7) Getting rich (by any means)
8) Serfs
9) Male hair always perfectly parted on the right
10) Rush Limbaugh

[lib2DaBone]

2. Amazing, isn't it? They believe in dogma and superstition....

and we are supposed to follow? Well, the right-wing media thinks so.

[DrDan]

3. TAX CUTS!!!!!

[justgamma]

4. But only for the rich. n/t

[DrDan]

5. of course . . . after all, how can they create all these jobs we need without another tax cut

[ggould1]

6. I love the DL Hughley video, wow.

[firefox28]

7. And torture

Is not experimenting on human beings? I "like" so far--foetus must live, sick Americans can die. Spending should stop, but let's bomb bomb bomb Iran. Stems cells are human beings, but the poor in America can remain poor.