Comments on: Curtis Comments on Stem Cell Research

By: Tonik Health Insurance

Tonik Health Insurance — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:09:26 +0000

Hrmm that was odd, my comment got eaten. Anyway I had to say that it’s nice to see that someone else also mentioned this as I had difficulty finding the same information elsewhere. This was the first place that shed some light on this subject for me. Thanks.

By: Brad Nital

Brad Nital — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:49:13 +0000

Curtis & friends -

There is great news on the human embryonic stem cell front for conservatives. hESC lines can be created in an embryo-safe manner, with no harm to or destruction of the embryo! Using similar techniques to what in-vitro fertilization uses to help women prevent miscarriages due to genetic defects, scientists have figured out how to achieve hESC lines without destroying the embryo! This is the same kind of technique that thousands of people have been already born healthy from over the last decade, and is somewhat similar (less invasive, actually) than what happens in nature when identical twins are born (this happens when a blastocyst divides into two blastocysts).

In even better news, it looks like the NIH is going to approve the stem cell lines from the company that invented this (Advanced Cell Technology), per news from Friday! The lines are called “NED” for “No embryo destruction”. If everyone can work together to make sure that people know this alternative exists, perhaps science can fully move toward this approach and there will not need to be any more hostility over this issue as no embryos need be destroyed ever again, and we can generate all the hESC lines we need! Everyone wins!

Then, we need to really get to work on fixing the national debt problem.

Brad

By: StemCellBlogger

StemCellBlogger — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:00:35 +0000

I prefer this quote…
“…since few people can afford to travel outside the country for adult stem cell treatments, ESC-crazed America, the Bangladesh of stem cells, with its focus on “treatment useless” embryonic research, and 4-8 years behind the rest of the world on available adult stem cell treatments, has become exactly that, a death row prison cell for those suffering from so-called untreatable diseases.”

from SCREW THE EMBRYOS, THEY’RE IRRELEVANT!
http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/screw-the-embryos-they%e2%80%99re-irrelevant/

By: Arkansas’ Curtis Coleman has upset the left… « America, You Asked For It!

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:48:21 +0000

[...] “We must, therefore, be ever vigilant against allowing ourselves to rationalize our way into unjustly terminating life at any stage. I have consistently and strongly supported stem cell research, especially umbilical cord stem cell research, and celebrate reports that more than 70 human diseases are being treated by this process. I question only the specific kind of embryonic stem cell research that requires human life to be sacrificed by the destruction of a human embryo.”–Curtis Coleman [...]

By: Ty Huitt

Ty Huitt — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:30:04 +0000

Curtis… they are not entirely seperate issues, embryonic stem cell research and the national debt. In a discussion yesterday over your comments in the news, I was able to find common ground with someone who doesn’t view the sanctity of human life as we do over the question of: should the federal government be spending millions of the tax payers money on something like this, so controversial, when the deficit is so astronomically high? We both said no.