{"id":5934,"date":"2012-02-02T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T22:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2012-02-02T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T22:33:55","slug":"new-komen-foundation-policy-also-refuses-funding-for-embryonic-stem-cell-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/new-komen-foundation-policy-also-refuses-funding-for-embryonic-stem-cell-research\/","title":{"rendered":"New Komen Foundation policy also refuses funding for embryonic stem cell research"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Via Kombiz, it appears the Susan G. Komen Foundation&#8217;s newest push towards the hard-right has resulted in another new policy as well. According to a statement released at around the same time as the Planned Parenthood defunding was being planned, the Komen Foundation will also be denying any funding for cancer research that uses embryonic stem cells [PDF]. The statement language is lifted directly from far-right rhetoric on the matter, saying they will only fund stem cell research &#8220;derived without creating a human embryo or destroying a human life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This seems to go even farther than George W. Bush was willing to go, as it appears to offer no grandfathering of existing embryonic stem cell lines, but instead formalizes a blanket funding ban on all such research, no matter what the origin of the cells. It&#8217;s about as extremist a position as exists on the matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/02\/02\/1061151\/-New-Komen-Foundation-policy-also-refuses-funding-for-embryonic-stem-cell%C2%A0research\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/tuibguy.com\/\">Mike<\/a> suggested, we need to ask our local sports team to drop the whole &#8220;wear pink&#8221; thing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Kombiz, it appears the Susan G. Komen Foundation&#8217;s newest push towards the hard-right has resulted in another new policy as well. According to a statement released at around the same time as the Planned Parenthood defunding was being planned, the Komen Foundation will also be denying any funding for cancer research that uses embryonic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/new-komen-foundation-policy-also-refuses-funding-for-embryonic-stem-cell-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Komen Foundation policy also refuses funding for embryonic stem cell research<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1xI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}