I'm sure Nancy and others are aware of the fantastic progress in some diseases that's been achieved using ADULT stem cells, so there is no need to use abortions for research.
One of the better examples is the teenager in Royal Oak(that's Detroit) whose heart had mostly died, and he needed a transplant. But instead, doctors harvested his own bone marrow, extracted his own stem cells, duplicated them in a lab, and deposited them back into the dead areas of his heart tissue.
He re-grew a new heart.
There are also a great wealth of placenta stem cells.
...the remainder is from:
www.cwfa.org/images/content/adultstemcells03.pdf
After undergoing adult pancreatic-cell transplants, 11 out of 15 Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes patients are no longer taking insulin. 33
Heart specialist Bodo Eckehard Strauer successfully treated a patient with stem cells from the man’s bone marrow.34
Doctors at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, report that Dimitri Bonnville shows improvement after undergoing an experimental stem-cell transplant [his OWN cells] to help regain heart tissue lost in a massive heart attack.35
AMAZING ADVANCES While ESCR consistently turns up dead ends and sometimes-deadly results, adult stem cells continue to amaze researchers with their powers. In fact, the only real medical advances from stem cells have come with adult stem-cell treatments. Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Michael Fumento asserts the advantage of adult stem cells. He says, “Embryonic stem cell research is so far behind it’s like a joke. … We’re getting everything we need out of nonembryonic stem cells, and what we’re getting is incredible.
Christopher Reeve will walk again because of adult-stem cell research.”25 Recent scientific developments prove this statement true. A few include:
Italian scientists generated muscle tissue using adult rat brain cells. Scientists hope to use this discovery to improve organ transplant therapy.
University of South Florida researchers injected brain cells, developed from human stem cells found in umbilical-cord blood, into rats “genetically engineered to have strokes.” They report that the stem cells “integrated seamlessly into the surrounding brain tissue, maturing into the type of cell appropriate for that area of the brain.” This finding shows the versatility of cord-blood stem cells and could improve the treatment of neurological diseases.26 19 April 2002.
I think they are referring to a speech she recently gave some times in the last few months
Everything I've read, it says just stem cell
I guess the only way to know for sure is look at the transcript
Nancy has a greater public platform available to her than ever... Obviously she is deeply grieving, but she does have the ability to clarify if she does *not* mean embryonic stem cell research, via a statement on her website, a press release, or a letter to the editor. I would think if the press were seriously distorting her position she would immediately take steps to have her position clarified. She could have an assistant release a statement without having to be overly involved herself if she is too preoccupied with other matters at present. All it takes is one sentence: "Mrs. Reagan wishes it to be known she does *not* support embryonic stem cell research, only adult stem cell research." Absent that, I have to believe she supports it, very sad to say. I can't believe President Reagan would *ever* have approved, and surely she must know this.
JMHO.