Here is an insightful statement issues by the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity related to embryonic stem cell research:
Bioethics professor C. Ben Mitchell says that a Massachusetts laboratory’s claim to have developed a new way to derive embryonic stem cells without harming embryos is just “ethical smoke and mirrors.”Advance Cell Technology (ACT) of Worcester, Massachusetts published an article in the science journal Nature on Wednesday, August 23, 2006, purporting that they had let an embryo grow to the 8- to10-cell stage, extracted cells, and cultivated some of those cells into stem cell lines, without destroying the embryo.
The study does not really show what it claims to show. “There are huge unresolved ethical problems here,” says Mitchell, associate professor of bioethics at Trinity International University in North-suburban Chicago.
The method of extracting cells from the embryo is similar to the procedure used for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), which has ethical problems of its own. The long-term effects of removing a cell or cells from an early embryo are unknown; it is likely some embryos will not even survive the procedure. In addition, it is widely believed that a single cell of a very early embryo may be capable of becoming a new embryo itself.“Using healthy embryos in research that could harm them is not morally justifiable,” declares Mitchell. “Life threatening experiments should only be done by consent or, in the case of children, with parents’ consent and only where the experiment might benefit the child. These embryos had nothing to gain by being used like laboratory rats.” According to the paper, at least 16 human embryos were killed in the process of developing the technique.
Last May, when discussing the use of this technique to derive stem cells, the President’s Council on Bioethics unanimously agreed: “We find this proposal to be ethically unacceptable in humans . . . we should not impose risks on living embryos destined to become children for the sake of getting stem cells for research.”
The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity maintains that stem cell research does not require the destruction of human embryos. To date, there are over 70 therapies benefiting human patients (and more than 500 clinical trials underway) using stem cells from non-controversial sources such as bone marrow and umbilical cord blood.
“Why scientists do not invest more time, energy, and resources in researching these non-controversial sources probably has more to do with economics than anything else,” says Mitchell. “Follow the money.”
The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. CBHD recognizes that developments in healthcare and biotechnology create amazing opportunities as well as serious threats to human dignity, and to human life itself. The Center brings biblical-Christian perspectives to bear on current and emerging bioethical challenges, by developing cutting-edge critiques and constructive alternatives to meet the real human needs involved.
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THE PATENTS ARE WORTH TRILLIONS ——THE PATENTS ARE WORTH TRILLIONS —-THE PATENTS ARE WORTH
TRILLIONS
California is known worldwide as the tech leader in many areas …. Silicon valley …. Hollywood Film Tech……Special FX etc
….the Voters HERE in California passed Propostion 71 to Begin a STATE Sponsored Policy of Stem Cell Research Funding
….. the people of America are lulled into thinking, well, California is doing it …we will all benefit pretty soon anyway from Stem
Cell Research …California is on it …… we can forget about it …it will happen now…….this is a Flase Hope and Understanding
that is being deliberately peddled by th NEOCON leadership of California to further their agenda …and here is how they are
doing it :
THE Voters HERE in California passed Propostion 71 to Begin a STATE Sponsored Policy of Stem Cell Research Funding …..
Then HERE COMES THE Life Legal Defense Foundation which is the SAME EXACT organization which sponsored the
RECALL Governor Gray DAVIS campaign which swept SCHWARZENEGGER into office ……The Life Legal Defense
Foundation has brought what
ICOC Chair Robert Klein II (Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (ICOC) STEM CELL POLICY FACILITATORS , says are
“groundless lawsuits” …… to HALT the STEM CELL RESEARCH funding the Voters Voted For and the SAME
ORGANIZATION that GOT GRAY DAVIS RECALLED and SCHWARZENEGGAR HANDED THE GOVERNORSHIP (which
everyone here in CALI knows was an ENRON BLACK OP OVERSPILL –the fake California Energy Crisis of 2002) The Life
Legal Defense Foundation is suing to stop the sale of $3 billion in Proposition 71 embryonic stem cell research bonds …..
SCHWARZENEGGAR now says …”Oh I am for stem cell research now” ..here is a measly $150 million to show my good faith”
more Austrian Ca-ca —–the same Organization that CONVIENTLY PLACED THE GUVERNATER
in office is now suing him in a FAKE lawsuit to stop the Brilliant VOTER APPROVED California State Policy of FUNDING STEM
CELL RESEARCH ……and he is gladly obliging them in the
WHY ….BIG PHARMA …TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS in dollars recouped in THEAPIES NOT CURES
…THERAPIES NOT CURES …that is Soylant Green Here folks —if you are a blogger….if you are active—- PLEASE get this
Particular story out ….I have Cancer and I know this will help people like me ……GET THIS STORY out ….Big PHARMA is the
enemy in collusion with the NEOCON agenda ….they want the PATENTS —THE PATENTS ARE WORTH TRILLIONS —–they
are stretching things out in COURT till they secure the Research and the PATENTS and see who is helping them ?
Here is the LINK …please pass this POST and story on (PASTE THE ENTIRE LINK INTO YOUR ADDRESS BAR)
http://www.etopiamedia.net/ emmnn/ pages/ emmnn67-5551212.html
DOES BIG PHARMA LINE Schwarzeneggar’s Pockets …Hell YES …(PASTE THE ENTIRE LINK INTO YOUR ADDRESS BAR)
http://www.zmag.org/ content/ showarticle.cfm?ItemID=6382
For the success of the STEM CELL RESEARCH FUNDING …for our families, friends and loved ones …..tell the people about
these lies in California …BLOG on and PASS THIS ON
Derail their secret agendas piece by piece …..