The mad scientists want government grants to make themselves rich, and are trying to get our tax dollars for embryonic stem cell research.
HOWEVER, there has never, ever been a single cure with EMBRYONIC stem cells.
The GOOD NEWS is that there have been countless success stories with ADULT stem cells, which include the umbilical cord (confusing, huh?) and you don't have to kill an embryo.
Here's just SOME of the success stories from ADULT stem cells:
Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have used patients’ adult skin cells to cut in half the progression of the mental decline from Alzheimer’s.[1] Other published research shows bone-marrow stem cells could be useful in treating neurodegenerative disorders.
Bone and Cartilage
German doctors have grown a new jaw bone from bone marrow stem cells to replace a man’s lower jaw lost to cancer.
Bone marrow stem cells are also being used by doctors to construct cartilage in damaged and arthritic joints.
Stem cells from human fat are being used by researchers to grow human bone cells and heal large cranial defects in animals.
Brain Damage
Umbilical cord blood stem cells have shown to reduce brain damage in stroke victims
Cancer/ Leukemia
Bone marrow and umbilical cord blood transplants are being successfully used to treat and cure acute leukemia and other fatal cancers. Additional research reveals adult stem cells show promise in attacking harmful tumors to deliver cancer treatment.
Ear/Eye
Adult stem cells can improve vision in eyes damaged by retinal disease. Mariano Roman, who was blinded for two years from a chemical accident, can now see following a corneal transplant and adult stem cell therapy.[13] Doctors at Osaka University Hospital in Japan have succeeded in restoring the sight of patients by using the patients’ own oral mucous membranes.[14] In research promising to millions of people with hearing loss, scientists have regenerated hearing in mature mammals using adult stem cells.
Heart
Bone marrow stem cells are being used to repair the heart from heart attack damage and blocked arteries.[16] Doctors have used bone marrow stem cells to completely repair the heart of a 16-year-old boy in Michigan, who was shot through the heart with a nail gun.
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Embryo/cloning research is not against the law, but the mad scientists want taxpayers to be forced to pay.
The mad scientists can't get anyone to invest in their experiments, because embryos/cloning has never helped anyone. That's why they want taxpayers to be forced to pay.
You see, investors are investing in ADULT stem cells, becaue it is EFFECTIVE.
Please keep calling your assemblypersons as the bill has not yet passed the Assembly.
It was passed by the Health Committee and is now in the Assembly Codes Committee.
Will be voted on by that committee tomorrow, and will then go to the
Ways and Means Committee before possibly reaching the floor of the
Assembly. At this point there is no Senate sponsor for the bill. The reality is that the bill will likely pass in that house easily unless
members get overwhelming pressure from constituents.