Why
do many biotech firms and government
research facilities still insist on
embryonic stem cells, when they can
utilize adult stem cells? Why do they
spend billions on embryonic stem cells
just to fail, when much success is already
being reaped with adult stem cells?
This is not just a question of science.
At its root, it is the diabolical work
of Satan. The enemy would like to continue
receiving human sacrifices in the form
of aborted children. Justifying the
harvesting of embryonic stem cells in
order to effect medical cures is his
way of pushing for even more abortions.
Mainstream
Media Recognizes Adult Stem Cell Research
Far Ahead Of Embryonic
By
Thaddeus M. Baklinski
WASHINGTON,
DC, August 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- Following an announcement on Friday
by U.S. biotech firm Geron Corp. that
it received clearance from the Food
and Drug Administration to carry out
clinical trials using stem cells derived
from human embryos, the mainstream media
has been awash in stories that acknowledge
the success of
adult stem cell treatments, and the
absence of any positive results from
embryonic stem cell research.
AP
reported the fact that adult stem cells
have the ability not only to differentiate
into bone, cartilage and blood vessels,
but have also been shown to stimulate
tissue repair.
"That
gives adult stem cells really a very
interesting and potent quality that
embryonic stem cells don't have,"
Rocky Tuan of the University of Pittsburgh
told AP.
Harvard
University’s Dr. David Scaden,
on the other hand, told CBS News of
adult stem cells: “That’s
really one of the great success stories
of stem cell biology that gives us all
hope. If we can recreate that success
in other tissues, what can we possibly
imagine for other people?”
In
one prominent case that is being cited
by the mainstream press, a patient had
a broken ankle that would not heal,
despite multiple surgeries. Dr. Thomas
Einhorn, Chairman of Orthopedic Surgery
at Boston University Medical Centre,
drew bone marrow from the man’s
pelvic bone, and condensing it he then
injected the four teaspoons of rich
red liquid into his patient’s
ankle.
Four
months later, the man’s broken
ankle had healed, which Einhorn credits
to the adult stem cells in the marrow
injection. Einhorn said he tried the
procedure based on published research
from France.
"Adult
stem cells are being studied in people
who suffer from multiple sclerosis,
heart attacks and diabetes. Some early
results suggest (adult) stem cells can
help some patients avoid leg amputation.
Recently, researchers reported that
they restored vision to patients whose
eyes were damaged by chemicals,"
AP reported, adding that
adult stem cell treatments "have
become a standard lifesaving therapy
for perhaps hundreds of thousands of
people with leukemia, lymphoma and other
blood diseases."
According
to CBS news, U.S. scientists at biotech
companies and at the Pentagon are devising
potential treatments that use adult
stem cells rather than embryonic stem
cells, news that is being welcomed by
those who oppose the destruction of
human embryos, both for moral reasons
and based on the fact that embryo
research has not resulted in a single
positive outcome.
Stories
of "catastrophic" results
from the experimental use of fetal stem
cells abound.
Last
year a report by Israel's Public Library
of Science journal said that a young
Israeli boy suffering from a fatal genetic
disease was injected with fetal stem
cells that resulted in the development
of brain and spinal cord tumors. Tests
revealed that the tumor tissue was composed
of fetal cells.
A
study published in the March 2001 issue
of the New England Journal of Medicine
describing the use of fetal tissue to
treat Parkinson's disease, said that
the treatment resulted in what the researchers
themselves described as "disastrous
side effects."
The
study said the treatment caused patients
to "chew constantly" and "writhe
and twist, jerk their heads, fling their
arms about."
Dr.
Paul Greene, a neurologist at the Columbia
University College of Physicians and
Surgeons, said that the results of the
experiment were "absolutely devastating
... It was tragic, catastrophic. It's
a real nightmare. And we can't selectively
turn it off."
Earlier
this year California's Institute for
Regenerative Medicine quietly changed
its focus, after years of fruitless
work and the expenditure of billions
of dollars, from embryonic stem cell
research to adult stem cell research.
The institute cited adult
stem cell treatment as responsible for
dozens of positive results and all-out
cures for maladies ranging from spinal
cord injury, to Alzheimer's, to type
I diabetes.
Los
Angeles-based Investor's Business Daily
magazine commented that,
"Five years after a budget-busting
$3 billion was allocated to embryonic
stem cell research, there have been
no cures, no therapies and little progress.
We are pleased to see California researchers
beginning to put science in its rightful
place."
The
Vatican responded on Saturday to the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration's
approval of Geron Corp.'s clinical trials
using embryonic stem cells.
Elio
Sgreccia, emeritus head of the Pontifical
Academy for Life, told Radio Vatican,
"Despite the efforts that are made
to deny it, science continues to show
us that the embryo is a human being
in the making" and condemned the
move as "unacceptable."
See related LSN articles:
Calif.
Quietly Shifts Fruitless Embryo Research
Funds to Adult Stem Cells
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jan/10012908.html
Fetal
Stem Cell Injections Create Brain Tumors
in Israeli Boy
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09022003.html
Fetal
Tissue Transplants Cause Disaster Again
for Parkinson's Patients in Experimental
Treatment
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/aug/03082503.html
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to me to live is Christ, and to die
is gain." (Phil 1:21)