Why do people continue to pursue embryonic stem cell research?
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Killing a life to produce no real treatments or cures? When will ethics have a place in our science and technology. Embryonic stem cell research (and yes it is going on, despite your liberal claims that Bush has banned it) has resulted in ZERO cures and/or human treatments. Adult stem cell research has resulted in 72 known cures and/or successful human treatments. Democrats again trot out the victim and tell you who is to blame for their disease.
Here are the 72 known cures and/or successful human treatments: Brain Cancer; Retinoblastoma; Ovarian Cancer; Merkel Cell Carcinoma; Testicular Cancer; Tumors abdominal organs Lymphoma; Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; Hodgkin’s Lymphoma; Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia; Acute Myelogenous Leukemia; Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia; Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia; Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia; Cancer of the lymph nodes: Angioimmunoblastic, Lymphadenopathy; Multiple Myeloma, Myelodysplasia; ****** Cancer; Neuroblastoma; Renal Cell Carcinoma; Various Solid Tumors; Soft Tissue Sarcoma; Ewing’s Sarcoma; Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia; Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; POEMS syndrome; Myelofibrosis; Systemic Lupus; Sjogren’s Syndrome; Myasthenia; Autoimmune Cytopenia; Scleromyxedema; Scleroderma; Crohn’s Disease; Behcetʼs Disease; Rheumatoid Arthritis; Juvenile Arthritis; Multiple Sclerosis; Polychondritis; Systemic Vasculitis; Alopecia Universalis; Buerger’s Disease; Acute Heart Damage
Chronic Coronary Artery Disease; Corneal regeneration; Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome; X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome; X-linked Hyper immunoglobulin M Syndrome; Parkinson’s Disease; Spinal Cord Injury; Stroke Damage; Sickle Cell Anemia; Sideroblastic Anemia; Aplastic Anemia; Red Cell Aplasia; Amegakaryocytic ‘Thrombocytopenia; Thalassemia; Primary Amyloidosis; Diamond Blackfan Anemia; Fanconi’s Anemia; Chronic Epstein-Barr Infection; Limb Gangrene; Surface Wound Healing; Jawbone Replacement; Skull Bone Repair; Hurler’s Syndrome; Osteogenesis Imperfecta; Krabbe Leukodystrophy; Osteopetrosis; Cerebral X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy; Chronic Liver Failure; Liver Cirrhosis; and End-Stage Bladder Disease
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Killing a life to produce no real treatments or cures? When will ethics have a place in our science and technology. Embryonic stem cell research (and yes it is going on, despite your liberal claims that Bush has banned it) has resulted in ZERO cures and/or human treatments. Adult stem cell research has resulted in 72 known cures and/or successful human treatments. Democrats again trot out the victim and tell you who is to blame for their disease.
Here are the 72 known cures and/or successful human treatments: Brain Cancer; Retinoblastoma; Ovarian Cancer; Merkel Cell Carcinoma; Testicular Cancer; Tumors abdominal organs Lymphoma; Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; Hodgkin’s Lymphoma; Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia; Acute Myelogenous Leukemia; Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia; Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia; Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia; Cancer of the lymph nodes: Angioimmunoblastic, Lymphadenopathy; Multiple Myeloma, Myelodysplasia; ****** Cancer; Neuroblastoma; Renal Cell Carcinoma; Various Solid Tumors; Soft Tissue Sarcoma; Ewing’s Sarcoma; Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia; Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; POEMS syndrome; Myelofibrosis; Systemic Lupus; Sjogren’s Syndrome; Myasthenia; Autoimmune Cytopenia; Scleromyxedema; Scleroderma; Crohn’s Disease; Behcetʼs Disease; Rheumatoid Arthritis; Juvenile Arthritis; Multiple Sclerosis; Polychondritis; Systemic Vasculitis; Alopecia Universalis; Buerger’s Disease; Acute Heart Damage
Chronic Coronary Artery Disease; Corneal regeneration; Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome; X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome; X-linked Hyper immunoglobulin M Syndrome; Parkinson’s Disease; Spinal Cord Injury; Stroke Damage; Sickle Cell Anemia; Sideroblastic Anemia; Aplastic Anemia; Red Cell Aplasia; Amegakaryocytic ‘Thrombocytopenia; Thalassemia; Primary Amyloidosis; Diamond Blackfan Anemia; Fanconi’s Anemia; Chronic Epstein-Barr Infection; Limb Gangrene; Surface Wound Healing; Jawbone Replacement; Skull Bone Repair; Hurler’s Syndrome; Osteogenesis Imperfecta; Krabbe Leukodystrophy; Osteopetrosis; Cerebral X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy; Chronic Liver Failure; Liver Cirrhosis; and End-Stage Bladder Disease
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i don’t agree with it either. i learned on a billboard that a child’s heart starts to beat 18 days from conception and that makes it a human being. that to me is like total murder.
I agree!! More euthanisia!!!
because they are thinking big picture. why did people at NASA continue to pursue the space program when there were a number of unmitigated disasters resulting in the death of human life during the early space launches? It’s in the name of knowledge and greater long term good of humanity. Most parents’ wish is to have their children have a better life than they had. Consider embryonic stem cell research that same concept, but magnified exponentially to encompass our entire species…And yes..I am a republican…
Embryonic stem cell research continues, but only on the limited number of cell lines that were already established and several of these cell lines are contaminated so they are not as useful. If you had 100 embryos in your hand, a garbage can, or stem cell research, which would you choose. That is the choice we are making, research or the garbage can, take your pick.
They only listen to part of the story. They dont understand it so they jump on the band wagon because a celebrity tells them to. I understand it and have tried to preach this very fact to the masses but you know they are always right when there favorite celebrity gets behind something.
Have a great day.
Scientists will tell you that embryonic stem cell research can yield much more then adult. And there is no government funding for embryonic, which is why more has been done with adult stem cell research.
And the embryos they use are being thrown away anyway, so why do you care if they use it for science. Why not get mad a the fertility clinics that throw them away?
And the government did ban any new embryonic stem cell strains from being used, so it is partially banned. And the ones they had from before are old and they are hesitant to use them since they can’t use any new ones.
A little more research would have helped you.
You must be against In Vetro Fertilization too then? Creating several embryos to implant in a womb that is not particularly fertile knowing very well that probably zero of the six or seven embryos used will survive? I want to know if you’re as adamant about fighting that as I see it kills more often.
Are you kidding? Can you not imagine the potential?
These embryos were to be destroyed anyway. Why not pursue the opportunity instead?
Don’t you know that women are having abortions every day anyway? So, basically, you’d rather we just throw the fetus in the trash to rot rather than use it to save another life? That’s ridiculous. Be realistic, women aren’t going to stop having abortions, so that’s not even a good argument. Therfore, you’d rather those “lives” go to complete waste than helping someone else?
I am an independant, but this election I am voting Democrat all the way
As for stem cell research, I agree with you 100% – money should be put into adult stem cell research
Embryonic stem cell research looks like it is going to help us with a wide range of medical problems. This is why people continue to pursue embryonic stem cell research.
In answer to your questions about killing a life, we do that every day. Everytime you drive to work your car kills insects that are more sentient than an embryo. People in the medical field research the nature of life more than anyone else, and it should be their considerations that have the most weight when it comes to answering ethical questions about life. They just know more about it.
Furthermore, in many cases, the actual embryonic stem cells are being harvested from aborted fetuses – meaning the life is already lost (and legally). So why not use the fetus to some good end? People want their lives to be meaningful, and personally, if I was going to be aborted, I would hope that someone would use the fetus that would likely have eventually become me to research ways to save lives if it was not allowed to develop into me.
I assume you are pro-life. Why do you not want us to do all the research we can now on embryonic stem cells while abortion is legal? …so that our decision on whether or not to outlaw abortion in the future is not clouded by needing a source of embryonic stem cells for research?
Stem cells from aborted fetus’s get tossed in the garbage can. Why not utilize them?
To the voicer,
Wish you and your family get all conceivable geriatric diseases of human race. I wish you have Alzheimer, diabetic, MS, osteroporsis, and ****** cancer ++++ and many more.
I think they should use the cells that come from your nasel cavity and also this does not cary the controversy OUR the risk of getting infected with a disesse since its your tissue!
You do, of course realize, that if they didn’t do the research on these embryos, that they would just be thrown away? These are left over embryos from in vetro fertilization that they store until the parents decide to make them into full size babies.
And there are literally tens of thousands of them all over the country, and only a few hundred will EVER become babies.
These are NOT embryos from abortions.
first of all whether you want to admit it or not there are enough abortions to stock this kind of reasearch anyway no body has ever proposed abortions just to get the material for this reasearch. secondly it is really none of yout business. why dont you get run over by a truck and then think about how you might be able to walk again if only ….. you obviously dont undrestand the question or the problem. if you think that life is so precious go to the bowery. find a bum and give him a place to live. ill bet you dont believe in giving disabled adults food stamps or medical care either.
FIRST STEP TO ALLOWING HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION AND EUTHANASIA
You should answer one other question. Where do you think the embryos go if they aren’t used for research?
The answer is in the trash.
Embryos go to three places: a womb, trash, or research. If the federal government would fund embyonic research then the embryos would go to two places: a womb or research.
I’m so glad that you are happy to have embryos being thrown in the trash instead of going to research.
This is not an abortion issue. It is more similar to a man who is dying who choses to let doctors perform exploratory surgery to examine the body while it is dying for scientific research. This is not a common practice, but does occationally happen.
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