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HUMAN EVENTS August 15, 2005
Stem Cell Research Threatens Women's Health
by Pia De Solenni
With the backing of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn), the U.S. Congress is poised to pour more funds into embryonic stem cell research, which not only destroys innocent human life, but also has shown no substantial promise as a curative and threatens the health of women worldwide. So much for "progress and advancement."
After more then 20 years, embryonic stem cell research has not yielded a single cure. During this same time, adult stem cells have been used to treat people with heart disease, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injuries and at least 50 other documented conditions.
The focus on therapeutic cloning has been aimed at our heartstrings, prephesying cures for our loves ones, friends and even movie stars. But scientists, politicians and academics have all turned a blind eye to the women who will be affected. After all, embryonic stem cell research depends upon millions of embryos. Whether created through in vitro fertilization or somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning), each embryo requires a woman's egg in order to be created. Theoretically, embryonic stem cell research would allow each patient to receive specialized treatment to avoid rejection complications similar to those caused by organ transplants.
Let's take the example of just one disease. In the US, there are 17 million diabetes patients. In a report on therapeutic cloning in mice published in the 2003 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, scientist Peter Membaerts found that, based on cloning experiments done in mice, if the same model could be developed for human cloning, each cure for each patient would require 10 to 100 human eggs.
On average, a woman undergoing ovarian hyperstimulation releases 10 to 12 eggs per treatment. In other words, somewhere between 17 million and 170 million women would be required to donate their eggs. According to the 2000 census, there are about 60 million American women of reproductive age. We can hardly assume that all 60 million American women would be willing to donate their eggs, which means, mathematically speaking, there would have to be donors from outside the United States to make up for the additional eggs required to treat the disease just among Americans.
The 2004 South Korean cloning of a human being required 242 eggs for one stem cell line. For 17 million patients, that means more than 4.1 billion human eggs, or 400 million women donors.
The reality is that millions of women will be required to provide eggs. Women whose eggs are harvested undergo a long, uncomfortable, painful and potentially dangerous process called ovarian hyperstimulation. Some of the drugs used have never been approved for this use by the FDA. Complications from the procedure include a potential link to ovarian cysts and cancers, severe pelvic pain, rupture of the ovaries, stroke, possible negative effects on future fertility and even death.
In clinical studies using Pergonal for ovarian hyperstimulation, 2.4% to 5.5% of women developed complications. If we're talking about 29 million women, that means that at least 696,000 of them would develop complications. More than 100,000 would be classified as severe cases.
Women have also died from egg harvesting. Knowing this, most women would not consent to egg harvesting unless they felt they had no choice. These women could be described as poor women, students and women from developing countries.
Endorsing any form of legislation supporting embryonic stem cell research means putting thousands of women at risk of serious illness, disability or even death. One would hope that an advanced and progressive country would treat its women better than that.
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Explain something to me...
Why do Liberals run around yelling and screaming about Corporate welfare and how it should be stopped,
Yet if those Corporations support killing babies in their quest to find the next wonder drug, that will make them millions of dollars, the Liberals just want to open up the Government checkbook for them ?
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Simply because they are Liberals, which does not require the ability to think, only to follow the party line without question. Witness the fiasco in Crawford. Just slip a few instigators in a group, and they're off... and it's Beetlebomb, and Girdle in the stretch.
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You need to do a little research. In the last 3 years, stem cell research has not come with any new cures.
In the last 7 years they have came up with over 50. 7 of them very big ones.
Would you have a problem with scientist comming up with a cure for cancer from coconuts? They are working on that, no one seems to mind. Must be the area of working on a area that is so far out there that it takes more then a year to just figure it out.
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Very well put Daytrader"Come to the Darkside
We Have COOKIES"
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Sounds like right wing, neo con, religious BS to me.
Oh, I know. Thats because it is!!!!Geopolitical power, if it is to be sustained, requires not just hard military might but the absence of hostile resistance. J.L. Gaddis_________
Welcome to America. Now learn English and get a job!!!
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I don't have a problem with Drug Companies coming up with a cure for anything...
My question was about the conflict that the Liberals have...
We've all been subjected to the constant crying from the Left, about the "evil Drug Companies" and their ungodly profits when talking about Seniors and Medicare...
But when these same Drug Companies want to kill babies to increase those ungodly profits, the Liberals want to just throw more Taxpayer dollars at them....
It's just another example of the Left's total lack of honesty...
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Better get this moved to the political forum sound s a little tto political for the R/T.
Peacekeeper Bobby Knight
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No, this one will probably end up being locked...
The Libs have no way to defend their position, so I imagine the name calling/trash talking will begin shortly...
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This should go to the medical forum!!!!!Geopolitical power, if it is to be sustained, requires not just hard military might but the absence of hostile resistance. J.L. Gaddis_________
Welcome to America. Now learn English and get a job!!!
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A good place for it, if there was such a forum. Rose?
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TruckNet Drivers Roundtable Medical Forum
Reads as much as the shrub.Geopolitical power, if it is to be sustained, requires not just hard military might but the absence of hostile resistance. J.L. Gaddis_________
Welcome to America. Now learn English and get a job!!!
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Rose, please fix RA's long URL. He may be trying to mess this thread up,
making it harder to read what he'd rather not see.
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There IS a medical forum maxie. Marines stay and fight, Bush makes sure of that.
Fox News, just a bowel movment away
Blind faith in a bad leader, is not patriotism
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August 19, 2005
Embryos for Profit
Albert Mohler
The Washington Post reports that the controversy over embryonic stem cell research is spreading from Washington throughout the nation. In reporter Peter Slevin's words: "The moral debate over embryonic stem cells stretches far beyond Capitol Hill to state capitals and research parks across the country, where a fierce competition is underway from Maryland to California for cutting-edge research and the profits that could follow."
Note carefully the focus on profits. There is undoubtedly a great deal of money to be made in the field of stem cell research and other biotechnologies. Corporations, communities and individuals are sure to demand a piece of the action and an opportunity to share in the wealth.
But what about the moral issues at stake? Will this nation sell its soul for profits from a technology that destroys human embryos and undermines human dignity? The sanctity of human life is worth more than anything money can buy.