Posted on 12/13/2006 6:02:50 AM PST by grjr21
The media can be first class a tool evil.
The Left shamelessly recruits damaged innocents for its front-lines assualts again.
Hey, I have an idea! Someone ought to write a book about how the Western Left uses terrorist tacticts in psychological, legal, and economic warfare! The true face and aims of terrorism might just start to become clear in that case.
My family was discussing the topic of embryonic stem cell therapy a few months ago, and my 16 y.o. son made me prouder of him than I ever have been. My wife has sadly bought the hype on the subject, and our son told her, "If you ever have to choose between letting me die, and embryonic stem cell therapy, I want you to know that I want to die".
My wife got mad at me and accused me of "putting that idea in his head", and I told her that, no, actually he and I had never discussed it; but while we were on the subject, ditto what he said for me.
At least the stem cells can be taken from stillborn babies. My husband and I recentl lost a baby at 20 weeks and if we had been asked to donate some of her tissue, we might have been able to consent.
I pray that this boy continues to heal. He is in no way responsible for the abortions of those babies.
Wouldn't it be good if Catholic hospitals and universities devoted a major effort to obtaining embryonic and fetal stem cells licitly?
Mrs VS
It would be interesting to see when he received vaccines.
Just WOW!....Kudos to your son!
I'm thinking the same thing.
Wouldn't it be good if Catholic hospitals and universities devoted a major effort to obtaining embryonic and fetal stem cells licitly?Yes, it would be. I also wish they would work with Congress within the next two years to send a bill to the President for federal funding that he could sign in good conscience, and defuse this hot-button topic.
So sorry about your loss and thank you for your compassionate heartfelt wish for the little boy.
Scientifically, it's hard to imagine why. Embryonic stem-cell research hasn't shown much promise, and has produced some notorious medical disasters for test patients. That's why some keep pushing for government support for embryonic research: Private money is staying away, and is going to adult-cell research instead, which has already shown therapeutic successes.
Embryonic-cell research funds are a form of corporate welfare, abetted by a big push from the abortion industry, which wants to supply the bodies. The poltical abortion movement needs embryonic research promoted as widely as possible, because popular support for abortion has been tanking with the widespread use of ultrasound scans.
I don't think Catholic hospitals and universities need to cut deals with Dr. Frankenstein.
"Brain surgery carries its own risks, including seizures, already a serious health threat for Batten children. The whole trial, which will include up to five more children, is designed to prove that the treatment is safe, not that it heals."
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Why is there this need to be 'safe' w/ dying children? I'll bet it is onerous regulations preventing them from going strait for the cure 'safe' or not. :)
What happened to the Hippocratic Oath.They're not Even trying to cure him
Phase I in any FDA approved therapeutic trial is to prove that the treatment doesn't cause harm. The boy has a fatal inherited disease.
Why is there this need to be 'safe' w/ dying children? I'll bet it is onerous regulations preventing them from going strait for the cure 'safe' or not. :)
They don't want to sued for a teratoma either. I'd like to see them try umbilical cord blood for some of these fatal inherited diseases.
Actually, there have never been any human trials using embryonic stem cells. These are fetal stem cells - the baby was at least 8 weeks along, although there's not much info on the harvest or processing of the brains or the "purification" process.
In contrast, there's quite a bit of research - and reports on the research and methods - showing that neural stem cells are available from the cells harvested from umbilical cords. Wharton's jelly cells have been "easily" (http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/3/781) induced to transform into neural stem cells and proliferate indefinitely in the lab. In animal models, the cells are being evaluated for use in treating Parkinson's and other neurological disease.
http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/content/full/21/1/50
Perhaps, now that "Stem Cells, Inc." researchers believe that they know the specific markers that are to be found on the cells they believe to be useful, they can turn their efforts to more ethical research. And more accessible stem cell sources. Even with 1 out of 3 babies aborted in this country, most are aborted at the embryonic stage (1st trimester), and so there are many, many more opportunities to harvest ethical stem cells from umbilical cords.
And we don't have to kill anyone for it.
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