2016-08-17

"So Far, Conservative Scientists Have Been Correct About Embryonic Stem Cells"

Here is a headline from last week's MIT's Technology Review,


The article goes on to state,


"No field of biotechnology has...delivered less...than embryonic stem cells."

Turn the clock back 15 years. Conservatives were stating that it was immoral to create embryos to for the purpose of harvesting embryonic stem cells. Scientists also stated that, while adult stem cells had tremendous potential, embryonic stem cell research was highly speculative. Here is a partial list of diseases and conditions that can be assisted with adult stem cell treatment.

Cancers:

Brain Cancer

Retinoblastoma

Ovarian Cancer

Skin 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

Breast Cancer

Neuroblastoma

Renal Cell Carcinoma

Various Solid Tumors

Soft Tissue Sarcoma

I urge you to view the entire list.

President Obama, with much media approval, overturned the ban on Federal embryonic stem cell research. Yet, in spite of hundreds of millions of dollars and the work of many scientists, there have been no major breakthroughs with embryonic stem cells.

So, I would suggest to the President that the ban be reinstated. Creating human life for the experimentation is highly immoral. And, we now know, that it is not a fruitful line of research.

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