Posted on 10/12/2004 12:43:21 PM PDT by freespirited
I don't have a problem with that. It doesnt require an abortion.
Seems like a great solution to me. Thousands of babies are born each day. How many stem cells do they need?
as long as they are doing AIDS and Hepatitis scans of the patients I see no problems with this. wouldn't be to smart to have contaminated Cells in the supply...
There are private companies that will store a baby's stem cells for possible later use (if the child were to get cancer and need a stem cell transplant). They provide a kit for the mother to bring to the delivery, and the stem cells are then mailed to the company for storage.
As for this story, I think this is great. It doesn't involve killing a fetus, and it could potentially help others.
I have no problem with this approach. My wife donated the umbilical cord blood from our second child in June.
This must be very new. All three of my children were born at Illini, the last being a year ago, and I was not asked. If I had been, I would have said yes. This is a great way to do research and not kill a fetus.
Since this posting comes from QConline, are you a local?
Does anyone know if stem cells can be used for cloning?
This is a good and moral thing to do.
I'm listening to Michael Medved and he just said that president Bush is the first president to provide funding for stem cell research. Anybody know anything about it?
> All three of my children were born at Illini
Silvis? East Moline?
No, not local to Illnois. I am trying to educate myself about the stem cell controversy. That article was posted on one of the websites I found. If you aren't familiar with it, you may find it of interest: http://www.stemcellresearch.org
When our youngest was in utero, my ob asked if I wanted him to preserve the cord blood and said it would be a $100.00 charge. I told hubby this right after the birth and with the doc present. The doc then explained that the reason for the charge is that the government considers the afterbirth to be a biohazard. I think if I had thought more about it, we would have donated it even if we had to pay the $100.00. Now I feel a little guilty.
Yep, Silvis, IL. Unfortunately, I moved to Colorado about 2 months ago. I miss home tremendously. Are you from the Quad Cities, or familiar with it?
Not much, but the president said it himself in the second debate.
> Yep, Silvis, IL.
Woo!
> Are you from the Quad Cities
Silvis born and raised. And edumacated in Iowa. And then employed in Virginia. And then Colorado. And then California. And now Utah.
> I miss home tremendously.
I miss autumn. I *don't* miss summer, with the billion-percent humidity. It's odd going home and seeing all the empty fields now covered in cookie-cutter housing...
"I'm listening to Michael Medved and he just said that president Bush is the first president to provide funding for stem cell research. Anybody know anything about it?"
Bush's decision was to allow possible federal funding for embronic stem cell research using 33 (or whatever the number is) lines from which stem cells have previously been retireved, but not for research using any new lines. I don't know if there is actually any such government funded research going on.
It is my understanding that there are no restrictions on privately funded research in this area. If there were easy money to be make, you can be sure that there would be more than adequate private funds available.
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