[8mmMauser]

News about Haleigh today is a repeat of earlier stories about her mother snubbed at her birthday. It is gratifying that she has such a high profile attorney as Wendy Jean Murphy at her side, assuring this battle for Haleigh will persevere.

News regarding Terri revolves around the stem cell battle in California.

It would be nice to air motives on why it is so essential to harvest stem cells from babies rather than focus on the other sources which have proved application already, if I understand the controversy right. Could it be the pitch for embyronic stem cell research is a strawman to support abortions?

Here is the pitched battle:

$3B Calif. stem cell agency fight for life

A little irony in the title......

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[T'wit]

There was a recent FR post of an article about the promise of non-embryonic stem cells, and it mentioned very hopeful research (in mice) about growing neuronal cells to reverse strokes and brain damage.

One thinks immediately of what that could have done for Terri. Somewhere in the autopsy report, as I recall, Dr. Thogmartin got on a soapbox to say that Terri could never hope to regenerate all the neurons she lost. Ironic that within a year, we can read news stories precisely about the possibility of regrowing the neurons with stem cells. I wonder if Dr. Thogmartin is that far out of touch that he doesn't know about this stem cell research and its possibilities.

[tutstar]

Marrow stem cells defeat Alzheimers

Adult pancreas stem cells can make insulin

[TheSpottedOwl]

There are other ways to harvest stem cells than killing off human embryos. What about harvesting them from umbilical cords? They've had success with that procedure.

I hope that someone of Ms. Murphy's calibre can keep Haleigh safe. I don't understand why CPS is treating this case the way they are, unless they have something to hide. I'm not talking about cutting off her life support. It's blacklisting the bio mom, and the tight control over any information on her condition that worry me.