McCain Ties To Companies Involved In Embryo Destruction May Upset Abortion Foes

Politico:

John McCain's wife has held ownership interests in two Arizona medical buildings that rent space to companies involved in the destruction of human embryos found to have genetic defects -- a practice some anti-abortion activists say amounts to the taking of human life.

McCain's financial disclosure forms show that Cindy McCain has invested more than $65,000 in Estrella Medical Plaza I. Estrella rents space to Arizona Reproductive Medicine Specialists and Sonora Quest Laboratories. Dr. Kimball Pomeroy of ARMS said that if his firm discovers that an embryo was affected by a serious disease, "in most cases, it would be discarded." A brochure for Sonora Quest says that "if a birth defect is found, your doctor or a genetic counselor will help you make decisions in the best interest of you, your family and your baby."

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Comments

[nellieh]

This is too much of a stretch to try to taint someone who is anti-abortion just because they made an investment probably before there were even tenants. Besides, I doubt the amounts Cindy McCain invested gave her much say over who is to be allowed to lease there. I doubt she even knows today. Has anyone considered how trivial these investments are compared to her wealth? Chump change. I don't believe there should even be a need for a law to permit abortion. It is a medical decision to be made between a woman and her Doctor. No way should an old gray haired white man or any other human being, religious nut or not, be included in that discussion. Either in person or by law. This country is getting as fl*ucked(sic) up as Hogans Goat. Christ do I wish Canada was warm.

[dadw5boys]

HOW MANY VOTING MACHINE COMPANYS HAD CINDY MC CAIN AN CONTROLLING INTEREST IN ????

[Whinger]

Typical McCain, running with the hares and hunting with the hounds!

Sleeping with both!

[abigail1]

does his new "soul mate" know?

[supergranny]

HELP! More blather! The NeoCons don't care about anything having to do with morality. IT"S ALL ABOUT GETTING THE FUNDIES INTO THE VOTING BOOTHS.

All this nonsense (as much as find the GOP ticket repulsive) is working to their advantage. We are in the eye of the storm spinning and spinning, while they waltz around and keep moving towards the whithehouse.

We need to bury them, this is not how it will be done.

[morefromLA]

I don't understand. Where's the problem? Since when have political "values" stood in the way of elites and their right to economic profit?

[mommamia526]

Only six more weeks until election day. I think we would do better to focus on ISSUES. It appears that the Democrats have a healthcare solution ready to go. More and more people are losing their jobs. How many this week? Foreclosures, how many? Even salespeople on commission only have a difficult time finding a *job*. How much are we spending, daily, on Iraq? If people have no job, and are losing their homes, they end up on the street. How easy is it getting a job when you have no permanent address even when job opportunities are plenty? The tax base. If people are out of work, without healthcare, and without a roof over their heads, where will the tax base come from? We will get nowhere with the angle of this article. McCain and his spouse are wealthy. They will win each and every lawsuit against them if they can outspend the other party, which they can. Law in the U.S. is another issue we must tackle, soon. Let us not waste time and effort on Cindy and Sarah. They are not running for the presidency. Cindy and John have prenuptials and separate business and tax records. We need to keep it Obama, or McCain??

[MadeinAmericaProud]

Just like a will can be change so can a prenuptials.

By the way where did you read about their personal prenup?

Did she own this company stock before marriage or after?

The first issue for democrats party unity.
We the people made them rich as public servicers as governor and 1st woman president and 1st woman.
It is now their tern to give without malice. The good seed the sow today in this race we all can help harvest. If not HILLARY loose BIG time. She will have allowed the repubs to declare Palin as governor out rank any senator regardless of time. They have include Joe Biden years of service doesn't count because he has no executive experience well neither does HILLARY.

[drzoon]

The guy she’s(palin) alleged to have her affair with was trying to seal his divorce records by emergency order today and was DENIED.

3PA-07—1581C1A in the matter of: Richter, Scott Alan and Deborah Marie

[edwarvir]

Wait a mintute He doesn't know how many houses he has
Now they are not aware of who they rent office space too and what they
do in the office. The more you learn about this guy the more you know he
is a low life phoney

Compared to the daily duties he will have to oversee in the white house his
personal business is minor. and he doesn't know what's going on with that Forget about it We are in Major Major trouble should he get elected.

[Ramirez]

Maybe he concentrates on his job and he doesn't pay much attention to his wife's business.

[MadeinAmericaProud]

John Bush McCain fist and only important job will be to pardon bush. As rich as the mccain are he doesn't care. His 2nd job to provide enough on the job training to Palin to get elected President.

Those are the 2 things on John Bush McCain BUCKET LIST , bucket list.

[janvier28]

Who is this writer and why did he waste his time on this story? Why am I wasting my time commenting? Anyway, he is going to need to do better than this to get the religious right upset with the McCain's.

[Daly]

impossible - did anyone thing that the zealot right would ever NOT vote for McCain?

[tel8034]

Cindy is an INVESTOR IN THE BUILDING and receives RETURNS ON HER INVESTMENT which come from the RENT PAYMENTS ..........­..........­.... She is therefore LINKED.

[Ramirez]

I contribute to the McCain campaign. McCain is married to Cindy McCain. She invests in a building. The building management rents space. One of the tenants does research and may discard an embryo if diseased.

OMG. I'm only four degrees of separation from the discarded embryos. Thanks to this story I may decide to vote for Obama instead.

[MsLiz]

It won't matter. This sort of situation is only an issue when the right is doing the accusing. The right can perceive the difference between an innocent investor in a building and the activities that the tenants engage in. Of course, if Obama owned the building, he would be morally responsible for the loss of embryonic life.

[LemonMeringue]

First he sold his soul to BushCheneyCo, then he sold it again to the radical religious right.

This man is a P.O.W. of his own compromised soul.

[Irisdavenport]

I just wish Obama and the dems had killer instincts like Repubs.

They need to take footage from the news stories about abortion doctors being killed outside of clinics, and film footage about aboriton doctors being hounded outside their homes, and maybe an interview with a doctor who has been hounded, and show the film footage and interview of the receptionist in the abortion clinic who was blinded by a bomb that went off in an abortion clinic.

The voice over should read, McCain wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. He says, if the case is overturned, the question will go back to the states where the people will decide., but what he's not telling you about how each state will become a battlefield over this issue.

Then the camera zero ins on the face horribly scared face telling her story.

What the public needs to see from Obama is the killer instinct. If he shows that, he'll win.

[Irisdavenport]

You guys don't get it. Now that McCain has Palin, the right wing will forgive him anything. He could possibly have an arbortion and they would not blink and eye. This is about raw power and that's it.. He and Palin will, IF elected put Judges on the US Supreme Court that will overturn Row v. Wade and that's what they care about. It does not matter what the messenger like McCain does or say at this point.