Adult Stem Cell Cures
"Could a Catholic in good conscience vote for a candidate who supports legalized abortion when there is a choice of another candidate who does not support abortion or any other intrinsically evil policy?"
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Note: Embryonic Stem Cell is not about cures (there have been none in 20 years of research; only with adult stem cell lines); it is about human cloning (somatic cell nuclear transfer), making our women egg factories for research requiring hormone injections that have adverse effects in 35% of the women undergoing the injections; most important, it leads to the destruction of a human embryo and this is a devaluing of human life which is morally bankrupt.
Adult Stem Cell Cures. There are over 2,000 FDA-approved clinical trials underway in the U.S. deploying stem cells. All are using adult sources of these tissues. None involve the killing of embryos. Additionally, there are no FDA approved trials for stem cells derived from embryos.
There are also techniques to reprogram an adult somatic cell back to a state of pluripotency (in other words, to convert it directly to an embryonic-like stem cell). In both these methods, no embryos are created, no embryos are destroyed. Researchers have been reprogramming skin cells to behave like so-called pluripotent stem cells (meaning they can grow into any organ or cell type in the body) since 2006. Read more by clicking here. All citizens could in good faith support these methods of producing embryonic-type (pluripotent) stem cells. There is no need to destroy life by using embryonic stem cells!
We lost the vote for Amendment 2 in Missouri but the fight for life goes on. Contact your parish pro-life director and if your parish doesn't have one, phone Bill at 756-1850 and ask about starting one. For information on working in the pro-life office, please call (816) 756-1850 and ask for Bill Francis. For more information on the stem cell issue, Click Here. For more information on what Catholics should consider in voting, see the Bishop's column Here.
"Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in you that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." (Heb 13:20-21).
Click here to find out.
Note: Embryonic Stem Cell is not about cures (there have been none in 20 years of research; only with adult stem cell lines); it is about human cloning (somatic cell nuclear transfer), making our women egg factories for research requiring hormone injections that have adverse effects in 35% of the women undergoing the injections; most important, it leads to the destruction of a human embryo and this is a devaluing of human life which is morally bankrupt.
Adult Stem Cell Cures. There are over 2,000 FDA-approved clinical trials underway in the U.S. deploying stem cells. All are using adult sources of these tissues. None involve the killing of embryos. Additionally, there are no FDA approved trials for stem cells derived from embryos.
There are also techniques to reprogram an adult somatic cell back to a state of pluripotency (in other words, to convert it directly to an embryonic-like stem cell). In both these methods, no embryos are created, no embryos are destroyed. Researchers have been reprogramming skin cells to behave like so-called pluripotent stem cells (meaning they can grow into any organ or cell type in the body) since 2006. Read more by clicking here. All citizens could in good faith support these methods of producing embryonic-type (pluripotent) stem cells. There is no need to destroy life by using embryonic stem cells!
We lost the vote for Amendment 2 in Missouri but the fight for life goes on. Contact your parish pro-life director and if your parish doesn't have one, phone Bill at 756-1850 and ask about starting one. For information on working in the pro-life office, please call (816) 756-1850 and ask for Bill Francis. For more information on the stem cell issue, Click Here. For more information on what Catholics should consider in voting, see the Bishop's column Here.
"Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in you that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." (Heb 13:20-21).
