Above the Law...

There those who, because of blindness or arrogance, view themselves as so highly enlightened or 'compassionate' that they are willing to promote the murder and death of innocent human life in the form of embryonic stem cell research in order to chase a dream. Some of these, seemingly suffering from an "I am god" complex, yearn to be, not only above the natural moral law, but also above the laws of the country - and all of this because of their idolatry of money and power.

I direct you to this article:

Three patents held by a Wisconsin alumni group may throw a bigger roadblock into stem cell research in the United States than federal funding restrictions, a leading stem cell scientist said Tuesday.

The patents give the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation broad rights over human embryonic stem cell lines in the United States.

Anyone who wants to derive medical therapies or other commercial products from embryonic stem cells may have to obtain permission and pay royalties to the foundation, affiliated with the University of Wisconsin.

The article continues here.

Many opponents of the deplorable experimentation of human life in its embryonic stages have long suggested that money and patents are at the root of the push to develop 'treatments' from cells obtained from the harvesting and experimentation of other human beings since adult stem cells do not offer the lucrative patents which embryonic stem cells might. And let's not be naive - this could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars or more...

So what do they do to remove this obstacle?

On Tuesday, two consumer groups filed challenges with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seeking to have the patents rescinded.
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"The debate in Washington is morally based, but what's at stake with the patents is essentially money," said John Simpson of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, one of the groups that filed the challenge.

Money, money, money...but what about the promised cures and treatments? Let's not forget the numerous advances and treatments obtained from the se of ADULT STEM CELLS - something about which the media rarely reports. Some of these treatments are phenomenal! Yet many Americans remain clueless or ill-informed.

It will take about three months for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to decide whether to hold re-examination proceedings, said Dan Ravicher, executive director of the Public Patent Foundation.

If it does reconsider the patents, that process can take anywhere from 18 months to several years. But Ravicher said the odds are good for his group. He noted that 70 percent of the time when a re-examination occurs, patents are changed or revoked.

The controversy reveals another potential roadblock for California's stem cell program, which voters hoped would be a way to get around federal funding restrictions and move quickly to obtain new treatments for dozens of debilitating diseases.

Perhaps this portends another avenue of hope for the citizens of Missouri who face a vote on a cleverly and deceptively worded constitutional amendment this November which seeks to REDEFINE the word CLONING and enshrine this gruesome and malevolent practice in its laws...We know that it is God's will that the most innocent of human life be protected, yet many continue to thumb their noses (or worse) at Him...May the light of Christ touch the hearts of those who act with such ghoulish propensities.