Guest guest Posted March 6, 2002 Report Share Posted March 6, 2002 Barb, Note that brain cells are conspicuously not mentioned in the article. "Researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Cancer Center have shown that stem cells that circulate in the bloodstream are capable of growing into liver, gut and skin tissue." They have also grown adult stem cells into certain blood cells and muscle (including heart muscle cells). It is amazing to me that "intelligent" people can carefully ignore this fact and make statements that things like PD can be cured with adult stem cells with NO basis in fact for their statements. Then those same people claim it is Christian (Christ-like) to execute people "for the good of society" or fight wars "for the good of the world" yet say NO, we can not kill afterbirth cells to save brain disorder patients. That still does not compute to me. I have no problem with executions (if we know the person is guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt) or wars (if we know the country has attacked us) as good for society in general (and Christ said leave unto Caesar that which is Caesar's) BUT then killing a few thousand cells to save millions of people ought to be okay for the same reason. We do NOT want to "kill" the human cells, we want them to grow and be transplanted "alive" into people to cure them. "Intelligent" moralists also then tell us that scientists are going to grow and harvest "body parts" for people. But in reality the only "body parts they want to grow is specific cells NOT hearts, livers, etc. The cells will hopefully (just as they did in mice) find the cells they need to replace and cure the person just as they did in mice. Sorry, but common sence tells me there is a difference between growing "body parts such as limbs, hearts, livers, etc." and growing cells to repair the existing damaged organs, muscle, etc. BUT under the BIG LIE concept, growing "body parts" has more gore value and appeal to people who do not want to really think about real moral issues. What happened to abortion as an issue - seems to me there are STILL over a million abortions per year in the USA (and millions of cells in each abortion) according to abortion opponents - yet they are picking on 60,000 blastocysts (about 140 cells each) which MAY be able to save millions. A million million is FAR more than "killing" 2.4 million cells which will be destroyed anyway (since last August about 15,000 blastocysts (over 2.1 million cells) have been destroyed by exposing them to temperatures above -140 degrees F.), because they are considered too old to use to make a human any longer. Canada and England have much better ideas with banning human cloning and allowing the cloning of specific cells. Third world countries are going full blast and hope to make money by hiring researchers who will clone anything they pay them to clone. When there is a cure, how many people will stay here in the USA to die if there is a cure in Singapore? Something to think about, morality is a complex question which can not be answered with simple answers. Especially when you bend words like "kill" to fit your own little view of morality. Take care, Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2002 Report Share Posted March 6, 2002 Barb Thanks for sending the article. Jim's aunt goes to Huston every 3 months for lung cancer treatment and says it's the best hospital in the world. The doctors gave her 30 days to live 7 years ago and she started the treatment with MD . She's been known to drive back from Huston after her chemo treatments because her husband is too tired. She always says she feels better after her treatments. She is one strong lady and a real character. They dubbed her one of their most prized patients a few years ago because of her long survival with the type of lung cancer she has. Sally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2002 Report Share Posted March 6, 2002 Barb Thanks for sending the article. Jim's aunt goes to Huston every 3 months for lung cancer treatment and says it's the best hospital in the world. The doctors gave her 30 days to live 7 years ago and she started the treatment with MD . She's been known to drive back from Huston after her chemo treatments because her husband is too tired. She always says she feels better after her treatments. She is one strong lady and a real character. They dubbed her one of their most prized patients a few years ago because of her long survival with the type of lung cancer she has. Sally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.