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Posted on 01/21/2009 8:44:44 AM PST by GonzoII
WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - A Spanish woman made medical history recently by receiving a new windpipe which had been grown from her own stem cells. The announcement has brought tremendous excitement among the pro-life as well as medical communities. The former group cited this as additional evidence that adult stem cell research, which is in complete accord with catholic social teaching, is producing real results.
Claudia Castillo is a 30 year-old mother from Barcelona, Spain with a collapsed trachea, due to tuberculosis, that left her unable to breathe. Using a graft from a donor that was imbued with stem cells from the woman’s bone marrow, doctors were able to fashion a new organ that replaced her existing windpipe last June.
After only four months of recovery she was able to climb two flights of stairs, and even go dancing. She also is able to look after her children – another activity that were previously impossible.
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Ping.
Good news! Thanks for posting.
Wonderful news. See, science never left us. And those were presumably adult stem cells. That is fantastic. I wish her a speedy recovery
Bless her heart. Common sense medical treatment wins once again.
Great news.
That is so cool!
so these were adult stem cells and not embryonic. Of course that won’t stop the libs from pushing to kill more babies.
*shrug* Yeah, they’ll still kill babies, but they also want to make more money doing it...
This is what works. We don’t need embryonic stem cells.
I think you are right. Most people don’t even understand that there is a difference between adult and embryonic stem cells, and even fewer understand that adult stem cells are the only ones that have shown promise in medical research.
Why is it most of the successes with adult stem cells that I hear about are outside of the United States? Is this country so bent on making sacrifices to Moloch?
Thank the Lord!!! Really, we should all pray in thanksgiving for this tremendous gift of morally permissible alternatives to the objective evil of embryonic stem cell research and treatments.
That's because the MEDIA never differentiates - they only say "stem" cells when they talk about embyonic stem cells.
An Editor of the Spokane WA Spokesman-Review recently in a wide ranging BDS rant told his readers that Pres. Bush opposed stem cell research, thereby choosing to misinform them by refusing to acknowledge that the Bush Administration increased stem cell research funding, and also that there are no legal bars to private funding of all forms of stem cell research, including the lethal embryonic kind.
So much for keeping the public accurately informed.
Thanks for the ping & 2 more takes on the story.
Pretty nifty.
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