John Naughton points out the lies and misdirection of the proponents of embryonic stem cell research and also challenges Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger of Maryland.
I would like to add to this piece the fact that the culture of death does nothing to acknowledge the successes of adult stem cell research because they are locked in a pursuit of research which kills many human beings to heal or benefit others.
Hitler's man Mengele was doing exactly the same thing around 60 years ago, except he didn't mind if they were alive & breathing. Today's scientists and "doctors" aren't far behind. Click here to read an article about Mengele and his bizarre genetic pursuits.
People like Senator Hollinger are in favor of experimentation which kills human beings for the benefit of science. This is not Nazi Germany, this is happening right now and is supported by the modern culture of death, mostly supported by Democrats.
Peter
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Post by John Naughton
Wave of the future: Adult and Cord-blood Treatments and Cures
February 16, 2006 #33
Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger
Dear Senator Hollinger:
It is one year since your erroneous and misleading statement appeared in the Washington Post (2/6/05) about embryonic stem cell research
(ESCR): "But this is such promising research - it seems like there's a
new breakthrough every day."
There were no treatment "breakthroughs" to help sick people before that date and there have been none since using embryonic stems cells. However, adult and umbilical cord blood stem cells had an outstanding year and their future is extremely bright in terms of cures and treatments. These new cures and treatments will continue to be highlighted in subsequent emails. Meantime here are seven of many low points in the last twelve months relating to ESCR.
1. Your statement falsely hyping ESCR. There won't be any treatments
from ESCR during the next year and likely not even for the next five
years, if ever. Clinical trials have not started on animals and it takes many years to work through the various phases of clinical trials in humans. ESCR is unrestricted everywhere and well funded in many places throughout the world. ESCR on animals has been underway for 25 years (7 years for humans) and there is nothing to show for it, except hype. .
2. The Korean scandal and the "misbehavior" of Dr. Schatten. The quest for the fame of making a significant discovery and the smell of riches is tempting scientists to put aside their ethics We saw the results in Dr. Hwang's fraud and the incompetence of his peers in discovering the fraud.
3. The testimony of Dr. John Gearhart on HB 1. Dr. Gearhart, an eminent life scientist, was asked when life begins and he responded, "I contend that there is no scientific answer to when life begins. No one has the right to tell us when human life begins. It's an ethical and metaphysical question." (Baltimore Catholic Review, 2/2/06). The obvious questions are: 1) If Dr. Gearhart doesn't know when human life begins, he can't be sure it is not when a sperm fertilizes an ovum. So why is he doing research which kills embryos if he doesn't know if they are new human lives? 2) "Do Marylanders want to support the research on embryos of a scientist who doesn't know the basics of human embryology?
Other scientists disagree with Dr. Gearhart: "It is also the first thing learned in Human Embryology: that the life of the new individual human being begins at fertilization (conception)," states C. Ward Kischer, who has a Ph.D. in Experimental Embryology and is an emeritus professor of Anatomy at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Dr. Kischer spent 35 years teaching Human Embryology to medical and graduate students.
And confirmed by our ubiquitous DNA: Dr. Jerome Lejeune, honored by
President John F. Kennedy as the father of modern genetics, who first
isolated the Down Syndrome chromosome, testified in the famous case in
Tennessee in 1989 dealing with frozen embryos that we are genetically
complete at the moment of conception, with unique DNA which lasts our
lifetimes. The Court concluded that human life begins at conception.
It is worrisome that brilliant scientists toss off the question of when human life begins. If they don't know, then it seems that everyone at every age is subject to involuntary experimentation.
4. Women being paid to undergo risky surgery to donate ova. Suitable
embryos, even with IVF embryos, are so scarce that women in Britain will be paid to donate ova. The procedure to obtain the ova can cause
fertility and kidney problems and even death. One regulation being proposed in California is that scientists will pay any medical bills women incur from donating their eggs as the process can "cause painful bleeding or infections." Why put women at such risk when
there is no proof ESCR will ever produce any cure? I find this terribly abusive of women and I hope you do also.
5. Your promotion of a 194% rate of return to Maryland. During a TV
promotional segment of Montgomery County news (April, 2005) you presented an economist who said that his analysis showed that Maryland would receive 194% (note the precision) return on its investment of $25 million for funding ESCR. In order to predict a return there have to be certain assumptions about when ESCR will produce commercial benefit. But no one, even after years of research on animal and human embryos, can predict when, if ever, there will be any benefit from ESCR. What were the assumptions the economist used?
6. Douglas Duncan's demagoguing of a young child. Mr. Duncan, at the
Business of Stem Cell Research Conference (April 23, 2005) said, "As we meet here today I know that somewhere in Maryland there is a team of scientists and doctors who are on the verge of great breakthroughs." He went on to exploit the plight of 5-year-old Hailey Koshko. "Hailey has juvenile diabetes and gets four insulin shots a day and tests her blood six times a day. That means she will have to get over 1400 shots before next Session opens and we can try to pass this bill again." Actually, Hailey is much more likely to be treated using adult cells than embryonic stem cells.
7. Deceiving polls, e.g. Speaker Busch's. Del. Busch's online poll asked a deceiving question: do you support stem cell research?. But the issue is the type of stem cell research. There should be two questions in the polls: "Do you support stem cell research that is saving lives?" and "Do you support stem cell research that kills embryos, permits human cloning and gestating of the clone to harvest fetal tissues and organs for experimenting?
The record of the previous year of ESCR proponents is unfortunately one of dissembling, dishonesty, deceit, diminishing the value of human life, deceiving and demagoguing. Let's hope the coming year will see an improvement.
John Naughton
cc: Maryland Legislators w/email, Gov. Ehrlich, Lt. Gov. Steele, Mayor
Martin O'Malley, County Executive, Douglas Duncan, Comptroller William
Donald Schaefer, Journalists, and other interested parties.
P.S. A Baltimore SUN report by Jennifer Skalka (2/15/06) indicated that proponents of ESCR funding want to compromise to permit funding of the obvious best choice for Marylanders - adult and umbilical cord blood stem cells. Unfortunately. such a compromise would still fund the killing of embryos and fetuses. The bill has to be changed to prohibit funding fetal experimentation and ESCR before it is acceptable.
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