Terri Schiavo Deeltje 4

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Op dinsdag 29 maart 2005 23:02 schreef RM-rf het volgende:

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Interessant zou zijn wat er met stamcellen nog mogelijk zou zijn, stamcellen kunnen juist het zelfherstellende en reconstruerende vermogen van cellen enorm verbeteren ...
Er zijn al enorm positieve resultaten bereikt met bloedkanker/leukemie (aantasting van bloedproducerende cellen) en bij verschillende vormen van hartinfarcten waarbij hertcellen waren afgestorven ...

Daarbij moet echter gezegd worden dat de amerikaanse christen-fundamentalisten fel tegen stamcellen-onderzoek zijn ...

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Op dinsdag 29 maart 2005 23:05 schreef Disciple_of_Guinness het volgende:

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Ja

Onder Bush valt het dan ook niet te verwachten dat er enige vooruitgang in de VS op dit gebied te verwachten is.

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List of Schiavo Donors Will Be Sold by Direct-Marketing Firm
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and JOHN SCHWARTZ

Published: March 29, 2005

WASHINGTON, March 28 - The parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of their financial supporters, making it likely that thousands of strangers moved by her plight will receive a steady stream of solicitations from anti-abortion and conservative groups.

"These compassionate pro-lifers donated toward Bob Schindler's legal battle to keep Terri's estranged husband from removing the feeding tube from Terri," says a description of the list on the Web site of the firm, Response Unlimited, which is asking $150 a month for 6,000 names and $500 a month for 4,000 e-mail addresses of people who responded last month to an e-mail plea from Ms. Schiavo's father. "These individuals are passionate about the way they value human life, adamantly oppose euthanasia and are pro-life in every sense of the word!"

Privacy experts said the sale of the list was legal and even predictable, if ghoulish.

"I think it's amusing," said Robert Gellman, a privacy and information policy consultant. "I think it's absolutely classic America. Everything is for sale in America, every type of personal information."

Executives of Response Unlimited declined to comment. Gary McCullough, director of the Christian Communication Network and a spokesman for Ms. Schiavo's parents, confirmed that Mr. Schindler had agreed to let Response Unlimited rent out the list as part of a deal for the firm to send an e-mail solicitation raising money on the family's behalf.

The Schindlers have waged a lengthy legal battle against their son-in-law Michael Schiavo to prevent the removal of the feeding tube from their daughter, who doctors say is in a persistent vegetative state.

Mr. McCullough said he was present when Mr. Schindler agreed to the arrangement in a conversation with Phil Sheldon, the co-founder of a conservative online marketing organization, RightMarch.com, who acted as a broker for Response Unlimited.

"So the Schindlers do know the details," Mr. McCullough said on Monday. How much attention they paid to the matter is hard to assess, he added. "The Schindlers right now know that their daughter is starving to death, and if I ask about anything else, they say, 'I don't want to hear about it.' "

Direct mail and mass e-mailings are ubiquitous fund-raising tools of interest groups on the left as well as the right, and others in the direct-mail business defended the sale of lists like the roster of donors to the Schindlers as a useful way for potential donors to learn of causes that might appeal to them.

Pamela Hennessy, an unpaid spokeswoman for the Schindlers, said she was initially appalled when she learned of the list's existence.

"It is possibly the most distasteful thing I have ever seen," Ms. Hennessy said. "Everybody is making a buck off of her."

Ms. Hennessy, who operates the Schindlers' Web site, www.terrisfight.org, said the family had not released any of the names or e-mail addresses gathered there. "Obviously these people are enterprising, and they are taking advantage of this very desperate father," she said.

On Sunday, as the Schindlers gave up on their legal battle and their daughter passed her 10th day without food, others continued to rally supporters and solicit money in an effort to restore the feeding tube.

"This time, we have a real chance to break through the 'roadblocks' that the enemies of life have been putting up in front of us," said a mass e-mailing from RightMarch.com, asking supporters to urge Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene somehow.

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Op dinsdag 29 maart 2005 23:05 schreef Disciple_of_Guinness het volgende:

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Ja

Onder Bush valt het dan ook niet te verwachten dat er enige vooruitgang in de VS op dit gebied te verwachten is.

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Op dinsdag 29 maart 2005 23:26 schreef Disciple_of_Guinness het volgende:

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Tis $3 miljard volgens dat bericht, geen 300 ( was dat maar waar )

En het probleem ligt een beetje bij het feit dat de federale overheid er wel degelijk iets over te zeggen heeft

Uit jou linkje:
[..]Federal policies restrict scientists from using federal funds — or even equipment paid for with federal money — to perform research on groups of stem cells that were created after August 2001

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Op dinsdag 29 maart 2005 23:38 schreef Disciple_of_Guinness het volgende:

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Als een staat geld investeerd, omzeilen ze dan de voorwaarde dat er geen stamcellen mogen worden gebruikt van na 2001?

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Op dinsdag 29 maart 2005 23:32 schreef CalifornianNewYorker het volgende:

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The State of New Jersey has made a $150 million investment in stem cell research and recently launched an international search for the world's top scientists to staff the New Jersey stem cell research institute

Massachusetts (New England State of the USA) is ook bezig met een wetvoorstel om $100 million te investeren in Stem Cell Research)

De midwestern state of Wisconsin (groot research place) is ook bezig met het passeren en funding of state sponsored stemcell research

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The issue is debated within the church, with people of different faiths, even many of the same faith coming to different conclusions.  Many people are finding that the more they know about stem cell research, the less certain they are about the right ethical and moral conclusions.

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Op dinsdag 29 maart 2005 21:54 schreef CherrymoonTraxx het volgende:
In mijn ogen is het wel moord. Bewust wordt de voeding ontnomen waardoor de vrouw zal overlijden een dezer dagen. Ondanks dat haar ouders het hier totaal mee oneens zijn.

De rechtsmogelijkheden zijn wellicht nog niet uitgeput, ik las dat de ouders nog een proces voorbereiden. Al lijkt het mij te laat. Ook al wordt de sonde herplaatst, het is te laat.