WebSite: Tell Me About Stem Cells

[CarolynS]

http://www.tellmeaboutstemcells.org/index.php

A source for stem cell information.

[vlhperry]

Dear Caroline,

Here is another site with information about the Stem cell debate and a description of what Stem cells really are:

http://www.lifenews.com/bio1835.html

I would like to know exactly how stem cell research will help the Parkinson patient. To the best of my knowledge only 9 diseases or injuries have FDA approval for treatment with Adult Stem Cell tissue. Zero, zip, has been approved using embryonic tissue. Man was given the gift to learn. That gift gave man the ability to choose what or what not to learn. Man was also born with the knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. Its called conscience. Any human tissue begotten or made will become a live human. A human who will also, if given the chance, be able to make choices.

Because we are stronger and more formed than embryo's does not make it ethical for us to decide who lives and who dies. I did not ask for Parkinson's disease. But I have it. In many ways it has enriched my life if I only work to accept the disease as a part of my life. I do not believe my life to be more important than the beginnings of human life found in an embryo or blastocyst, even if it is not yet implanted in the mother's womb.

Carolyn, I notice you also, like myself, have children who have or are serving overseas. Many are against this war and believe we should not be there. I am sure you are as proud of your children as I am of mine for choosing to risk their lives so we Americans can keep our freedoms. Does one of the freedoms include killing potential lives to save our own? The ethical answer would have to be no. Our country was based on the pledge "with liberty and justice for all." All human life is not defined as just stronger more developed life.

Who are the 100 million people who can be helped? How many undeveloped life forms must die to help those individuals who believe they have a greater right to life than other less developed human life? If you truly want to know a stem cell fact, the fact is you and I have no moral right to take another's life even to save ourselves. Death is as natural as life. Adult stem cell research as done much to alleviate pain for many others. Unfortunatly Parkinson's is too broad in scope by definition for the use of stem cell tissue.
Genetics should play a key role in differentiating the cause of one Parkinsonism as opposed to several other symptoms called Parkinsonism.

Mice embryonic stem cell tissue has helped researchers to understand what medium is best to coax the cell to develop into the right type for nervous system tissue. The problem is to use another's stem cells and inject it into the patient's skin cell produces unstable growth with a great potential for tumors growing wildly out of control. It isn't the evolved science the bio ethics community would have you believe.

If you consider yourselve a Christian, I have a question. Why did Jesus die on the cross if man had the potential to create technology to keep himself alive indefinitly? Did he suffer for nothing? Do you not have a need for his grace? Jesus died on the cross to free humans from death. If your life and my life isn't the quality we were hoping for, we should stop pouting and see if we can do anything to help the victims of Katrina, true victims, not the self made victims we have become. You were given only one Life. Be an example for your children by helping others and not allowing advocates or Parkinson's to turn you into a victim.

Sincerely,
Vicky

[CarolynS]

Vicky, my son is in the Army, but would love to find a way to not go to Iraq in April. He just found out that they won't be going to the relatively safe location in Iraq that they were to have gone to, but are now going to Baghdad to walk the streets. Needless to say, neither of us is happy about the change.

The other star is for my youngest granddaughter father, who has been on three tours of Afghanistan over the past five years. I fear that his luck may be running out, but we hope for the best.

:mad: :( :mad: :(

[vlhperry]

Dear Carolyn,

My son just recently arrived home from Iraq (Bagdad). He was there for a year and is a career reservest. He knows he will be going back soon.

Love,
Vicky