Future for Alzheimer's patients

[rayilynlee <rayilynlee@xxxxxxx>]

Fifty percent of people who live past 85 (the fastest-growing segment of our 
population) will be stricken with Alzheimer's. By 2030 the number of 
Alzheimer's patients will double from 4.5 million to 9 million. Even now it 
costs about $60 billion a year to treat Alzheimer's patients. Stem cell 
treatments hold the promise of reversing Alzheimer's, a cruel disease that 
steals one's ability even to remember loved ones. Diseases of dementia are 
among the fastest-growing health threats in the country.

The LA Times gives this quote: ' "We all want cures. We all want scientific 
cures. But there's this great pause about the notion of taking that young human 
life for the purposes of research," Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), a key abortion 
foe, said on CBS. '

Uh, Sam-- blastocytes are not "young human life," or at least not moreso than 
acorns are saplings. And nobody is taking a human life here, as defined by US 
law. Moreover, the stem cells to be used come from embryos produced by in vitro 
fertilization for other reasons. There is no instrumental connection between 
the abortion and the harvesting of the stem cells.

Despite the odd occurrence of the word "scientific" in Brownback's mouth, he is 
one of America's Taliban. As this website notes, "The fact is, Sam Brownback is 
a member of this "elect" cult and has co-sponsored Senate bill 520, designed to 
allow federal, state, and local government officials to overrule all other laws 
by appealing to the "higher source" of all law ("God") and to forbid the 
Supreme Court from doing anything about it."

The principle that the individual has a right by virtue of his belief in God 
and scripture to act as a vigilante and disregard governmental law also 
underpins all Muslim radicalism, from Sayyid Qutb to Ayman al-Zawahiri (who 
want their own sort of "Dominion.)"


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