Looks like House Republicans are down another vote.
Almost dies in a mass shooting…opposes ban on assault weapons.
Needs a stem cell transplant…opposed embryonic stem cell research in 2020.
I’m sorry the guy’s sick but damn if he isn’t the poster boy for hypocrisy.
I disagree with this guy on everything so it compelled me to read the article.
He’s receiving an autologous stem cell transplant. They came from his own body.
It’s a bone marrow transplant back from his own healthy cells that they harvested before they got rid of the cancerous cells via chemotherapy.
Still a douche when it comes to embryonic stem cell research, though.
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*almost dies in a mass shooting and is saved by a black lesbian
still votes against gun safety and lgbtq rights
I’m all for gun control but the guy who shot Scalise did it with an SKS and a handgun. Neither of those are classified as assault weapons.
I don’t know the exact details of the weapon he used, but there are aftermarket detachable magazine mods for the SKS that are fairly common (though I’ve often heard they’re pretty unreliable) that would make them qualify as an assault weapon under many assault weapon laws.
im fine with banning both
I thought the SKS was a knockoff AK-47?
They fire the same rounds but I wouldn’t really consider them a knockoff. SKS was made sort of as an answer to the M1 carbine and other lighter shorter weapons. This was in comparison to the Mosin Nagant which is a big beefy boy and hard to lug around. Also the SKS was designed 4 years before the AK47.
I was never a big “gun guy”, so my limited exposure was during the gun shows of the 90s. They’d always have AKs and SKSs (I believe they were Chinese manufactured) on display/sale. Extended family members bought a few just before Michigan’s (now expired) ban went into effect. As a kid, they all looked about the same to me (fired the same ammo, interchangeable clips, etc).
So I learned something new today and I appreciate your response.
You’re likely thinking of the Galil
I know it’s kind of ironic, but in this case it’s more specifically an autologous stem cell transplant. That’s where they take progenitor cells that become blood cells from your bloodstream, then give powerful chemotherapy that destroy any blood progenitor cells remaining in your body (to also kill the blood cancer cells). Then they repopulate you with your own stem cells they originally harvested (so you can, you know, make more blood again). So no fetal stem cells involved in this treatment. It’s a pretty intense treatment though with a mortality risk. Most commonly people are in the hospital for quite a while for this.
I’m sure many opponents of embryonic stem cell research have benefited from results of that research even if they don’t realize though.
Wasn’t it like, last week that Republicans were screaming that we were grinding up toddlers to make stem cells?
That’s true. But it is completely permissible if it is a Republican fetus aborted in a Red State.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise will undergo a stem cell transplant, his office announced on Friday, which is expected to keep him out of Washington and working remotely until February.
The irony is that Congress introduced proxy voting during the Pandemic, but once Republicans claimed their majority they did away with it. If proxy voting were still a thing then this wouldn’t cost Republicans a vote at all.
I thought they didn’t like that because stem cells are (according to Republicans) made from partial birth abortions that get dumped into a food processor?
As usual: “it’s immoral… unless I need it”.
May as well install a spine.
Stem cells - don’t those come from abortions or something? That’s why Bush 2 cut federal research funding & also why some people wouldn’t get one of the vaccines during Covid (that was their excuse to not get vaccinated, anyway).
I just wonder where Steve fell in that debate when it was happening - he’s very anti-choice and introduced legislation against abortion, so I wonder if he ever was against stem cell research or if it’s all cool now because, ya know, he’s important and special and really needs them.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise will undergo a stem cell transplant, his office announced on Friday, which is expected to keep him out of Washington and working remotely until February.
In August 2023, the Louisiana Republican announced that he had been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer and had started treatment.
That majority is poised to shrink even further by the end of the month with Ohio GOP Rep. Bill Johnson set to resign on January 21 to take a new job as president of Youngstown State University.
It has now been determined he is eligible for an autologous stem cell transplant,” the statement from Scalise’s office said.
Once the procedure is completed, he will be recovering under the supervision of his medical team and will work remotely until returning to Washington next month.”
He survived a shooting in 2017 at an early-morning practice ahead of a charity baseball game that left him in critical condition.
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Guy was a McCarthy ally. He’s probably just as happy to give the Freedom Caucus the double bird just like Kevin.
