It's really not a shocker that Hollywood favors creating a baby for body parts and then killing it
I think she should consider a political career!
Beautiful, Bright, Conservative
I know who Senator Talent is, but who is Jim Tenant? :-)
Michael J Fox, Democratic Spokesman Snake Oil Salesman
Michael's a character ACTOR,
But we must not consider that factor.
We may only show pity
On the saint from Spin City.
If we question, we're called a detractor.
Michael J. Foxs political ads for embryonic stem cells (ESC) follow fashionable trends of Hollywood ethics trumping medical ethics when attacking Republican Senatorial candidates for Missouri, Maryland and New Jersey. However, his stance harms tens of thousands who await follow-up stem cell studies pursuing life and health through the zero sum research funding game.
Instead of politicizing ESC, he should promote the next human study for Dr. Michel Levesque of the Cedar-Sinai Medical Center for already successful cures of Parkinsons using adult stem cells (ASC). Researchers at University of Washington and in Canada also used ASC to stabilize severe MS cases and cured MS patients in earlier stages. Overall ASC has treated 72 human diseases and ESC zero, but follow-up studies must precede widespread use for many therapies.
Another funding orphan is umbilical cord stem cells (UCSC). Dr. Joanne Kurtsburg at Duke Medical Center needs research funds to understand human UCSC cures reversing ALD brain disease, leukemia, sickle cell anemia, and bubble-boy disease. Researchers in Denmark and Duke Medical Center need confirming studies for work transforming UCSC into brain, bone, cartilage, liver, and heart cells. Confirmation would render even this murky vision for ESC obsolete.
Supporting ESC research means supporting harvesting of embryos, and burnishing liberal pro-choice credentials through the liturgy of abortion. Opposition does not mean adopting a pro-life position, but instead contending against ESC hype for allocating scarce federal, state and private dollars to fund the most promising directions for stem cell medical research.
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