{"id":6799,"date":"2004-10-29T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T14:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/10\/29\/no-on-prop-71\/"},"modified":"2004-10-29T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T14:38:16","slug":"no-on-prop-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/10\/no-on-prop-71\/","title":{"rendered":"No on Prop 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Here is the text from Mel Gibson&#8217;s commercial running in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"> <span class=\"articles\">Research on adult and umbilical cord stem cells have led to cures in 300,000 cases. But that&#8217;s not what Proposition 71 is about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"> This is Mel Gibson and I&#8217;m concerned that the people aren&#8217;t fully informed about Prop 71.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"> We have a lot of questions to ask, like why are we being misled into thinking Prop 71 isn&#8217;t about cloning, when it is?<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"> That&#8217;s what it says: &quot;Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer,&quot; and that&#8217;s a scientific term for cloning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"> If cloning human embryos for destruction is so promising, why aren&#8217;t private companies paying the $6 billion?<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"> Because in 23 years embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single human cure. All it yielded is tumors, rejections and mutations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"> See, that science doesn&#8217;t atttract venture capital, so why should the taxpayers be bled dry?<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"> This is Mel Gibson. I&#8217;m voting no on Prop 71.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"> Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong, particularly when there are effective alternatives readily available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the text from Mel Gibson&#8217;s commercial running in California. Research on adult and umbilical cord stem cells have led to cures in 300,000 cases. But that&#8217;s not what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}