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As former House speaker Newt Gingrich courts evangelical voters in advance of Tuesday’s Florida primary, he is drawing an increasingly hard line against the use of embryonic stem-cell research — a position that contrasts not only with that of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, but also with statements that Gingrich himself has made on the subject in the past.
Speaking at a Baptist church in Winter Park on Saturday, the former speaker received a standing ovation when he declared that embryonic stem-cell research amounts to “the use of science to desensitize society over the killing of babies.”
Gingrich vows to ban embryonic stem-cell research, questions in vitro practices
Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:39 AM EST
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“I believe life begins at conception, and the question I was raising was what happens to embryos in fertility clinics, and I would favor a commission to look seriously at the ethics of how we manage fertility clinics,” Gingrich said at a news conference outside another Baptist church here. “If you have in vitro fertilization, you are creating life; therefore, we should look seriously at what the rules should be for clinics that are doing that, because they are creating life.”
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#1 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:40 AM EST
I believe life begins
Hopefully, its a good thing we are beyond forming policy on "beliefs" in this country and we continue to elect people who view evidence and understand facts. Such that we do something about global warming, embrace evolutionary science in medicine, and understand life starts when life can live on its own.
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Love - and here he is, the prize looney of our day!
Newt would stick his head up his own ass and whistle the Star Spangled Banner, Dixie and a couple stanzas of Take Me Out to the Ballgame, if he thought it would win him some votes. Not sure how he would find room since Palin is already up there?
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Spot on Chief... Newt "I commit adultery in the name of God and country" Gingrich would sell his mother if it gave him another point in the polls.
Speaking of patriotic songs, I've always kind of wondered with Newt's patriotism.... think he plays Stars & Stripes Forever when he and the bimbo of the day are rubbin & grubbin? It does kind of have that beat.... If you think about it.... Grossed out yet by that image?
(FYI....I was deemed the champion ofthe unofficial CAG gross out contest. The aforementioned is a mild example of where I have been, and where I can go. Good thing there is a CoH here on the vine.) "A twisted mind is a terrable thing to waste"
Anyone know any good Christian Fundamentalist Blogs where I can go stir up trouble?
(As I have said before... as a child, I threw rocks at wasp nests....)
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yeah, the thought of 'ol Newter gettin' down to the short-strokes tends to put me off my feed, as well...
OH GOD, burn-out my brain...pluck-out my eyes, for i am having visions of Newt doing the big-nasty...AAARRGGGHHH !!!
luv,
ron
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I threw rocks at wasp nests!
Me too! I knew there was something about you I liked, had to be the mental instability, but then again you were a Navy Pilot, enough said! I'm refusing to acknowledge the whole Newt getting down thing, just ate a cookie and don't want to lose it!
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I hope NEWT goes BLIND, as stem cell research recently annouced.. stem cells showings signs of being able to cure blindness!!! and that almost any part of the body can be healed with them.. they are miracle cells..
the religious need to look at them as Gods gift cure, while we quest for pills and potions, all cures lie within a living cell
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#2 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:02 AM ESTSoph:
Actually, Newt's not hardline enough, at least, not as long as he pretends to be Catholic. The same doctrines that prohibit abortion and contraception also prohibit in vitro fertilization.
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#3 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:10 AM ESTThis is a really stupid move on Newt's part. Stick to the issues MOST of Americans are concerned about. Wasn't stem cell the 1st (and one of the few) legislations Bush the 2nd vetoed? Must not have had enough spending in it...
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#4 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:03 AM ESTNewt's claim that stem cell research is the same as killing babies is idiotic. Embryos are not babies -- any more than the mother's egg or the father's sperm are babies -- and they are not. So, he is either telling these people what he thinks they want to hear or he actually believes it as he said it.
I wonder if he has ever studied biology or human physiology. I don't know about the first one, but I can almost guarantee that he never studies to latter one.
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#5 - Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:42 AM ESTReagan's widow will not be pleased. Along with millions of other americans. Gingrich on the wrong side of yet another issue.
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