{"id":292,"date":"2006-07-20T13:28:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T03:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2006-07-20T13:38:34","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T03:38:34","slug":"schiavo-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Schiavo Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"

King George can’t get enough of mucking about in places he just doesn’t belong.<\/p>\n

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Nate Beeler<\/a> for The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/em><\/font><\/div>\n
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Mike Keefe<\/a> for the Denver Post<\/a><\/em><\/font><\/div>\n

The only upside is that if Shrubya’s stem-cell ban<\/a> sticks, the research won’t stop- it just won’t be done in the USA. Eventually, quite a number of debilitating diseases<\/a> will become as distant a memory as polio.<\/p>\n

However, you have to admire the selfless ethical commitment of the Christian right to the stem-cell research ban. Let’s see just<\/strong><\/em> how committed they are: I want all of Shrubya’s fundamentalist Christian ‘base’ to sign binding agreements pledging never to use any treatments which derive from stem-cell research.<\/p>\n

Darwin will sort out anyone who doesn’t think stem-cell research is a good idea.<\/p>\n

-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King George can’t get enough of mucking about in places he just doesn’t belong. Nate Beeler for The Washington Examiner Mike Keefe for the Denver Post The only upside is that if Shrubya’s stem-cell ban sticks, the research won’t stop- it just won’t be done in the USA. Eventually, quite a number of debilitating diseases […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}