I FULLY support stem cells. They saved my life. I am a leukemia patient and had a stem cell transplant last year. Stem cell transplant is a fancy term for a bone marrow transplant, but with a slightly broader meaning. Stem cell transplants can use hematopoetic stem cells (blood stem cells) from 3 sources:
Marrow - donated by adults who volunteer to do so
Peripheral blood stem cells - a type of white blood cell in the circulating blood donated by adult volunteers
Cord Blood - the umbilical cord and after birth donated by volunteers only after a live healthy birth when it is no longer a living part of mom or baby.
The transplant can be used to treat leukemias, lymphomas, myleomas and several non cancerous blood diseases. It can be used to treat a lot of auto immune diseases and can be used in conjunction with other organ transplants to give patients a chance to come off the anti rejection meds. AND it may be a future possible cure aids.
Adult stem cells can also be taken from skin and testicles. Every organ of the body contains stem cells and they are making progress every single day.
As far as embryonic stem cells.... I support that as well. Until/unless you ban abortion and treatments like IVF you can NOT tell me that I cannot donate the fetal remains or embryos to research. While I am sure someone somewhere has been paid, by policy and law it is illegal to pay for such donations.
It is important to understand a couple things though. By the time an abortion occurs, there is not much that can be done in the way of stem cells. It is also important to understand what IVF is.
In Vitro Fertalization is a fertility treatment. Women have their eggs harvested, fertalized with sperm to create embryos, and then the embryos are frozen. With each menstrual cycle a few embryos are inserted into the uterus praying that even just one will implant. IVF by nature kills embryos, because it usually takes several cycles to work. When the inserted embryos dont implant, they are passed with the menstrual cycle and die.
After the woman has her desired children, she can do several things with the embryos.
A. Keep storing them, but the fees are outragous and most dont
B. Donate them to other women.. But must dont because most women are doing this so they can have their own biological child, and most women would not want someone else raising their biological child.
C. Release them to the clinic for destruction, which is what most do
D. Donate them to research.
Most people dont have a clue what is involved in IVF or that the embryos are dead with or without the research.
I think it is hypocritical to tell me I can kill all those embryos in vain attempts to get preg after my body has said no, but tell me I cant donate the rest of the embryos for research.
Many Christians believe that life begins the instant a sperm fertilizes an egg; thus, to them, a "bunch of cells" *is* a life. Most Christians don't differentiate between a "bunch of cells" and an adult - both are lives. Some Christians see it differently. Some believe that life begins not at fertilization, but at conception. Others believe that a born live has more value than a newly fertilized or newly conceived life. Thus, some Christians support embryonic stem-cell research because they believe it holds the potential to save lives. Either way, just a quick clarification: no one has a problem with non-embryonic stem-cell research, which has shown promise. Not all stem-cell research involves cells from embryos. Hope this helps! Feel free to message me if it does not.
I know someone who wouldn't be here today if it weren't for this sort of research.
Even if I didn't I believe that it's only right that we use the science given to us to improve the lives of people with life threatening illness. The person in question has a bone cancer that will never be cured but she may get some time to enjoy her life and let the rest of us enjoy her being with us.
Stem cell research is going to help us make great strides in curing diseases like cancer,diabetes and neurological diseases.
The stem cells were harvested from the recipient in this case. Many people don't realize that this is possible.
yes. i dont understand why someone would have a problem with it. its not like they are asking people to get pregnant so we can take the stem cells, but if it can help and people are doing it anyways, why not do some testing. it could save the world. you never know.
no because there are other things we should be worrying about rather than stem cells. like aids or cancer or diabetes. something that has a lot of importance.
I do. Because there's no way they can make abortion all the way illegal so there's going to be those fetuses lying around somewhere, better that they didn't die in vain and they could be saving someone's life.
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I FULLY support stem cells. They saved my life. I am a leukemia patient and had a stem cell transplant last year. Stem cell transplant is a fancy term for a bone marrow transplant, but with a slightly broader meaning. Stem cell transplants can use hematopoetic stem cells (blood stem cells) from 3 sources:
Marrow - donated by adults who volunteer to do so
Peripheral blood stem cells - a type of white blood cell in the circulating blood donated by adult volunteers
Cord Blood - the umbilical cord and after birth donated by volunteers only after a live healthy birth when it is no longer a living part of mom or baby.
The transplant can be used to treat leukemias, lymphomas, myleomas and several non cancerous blood diseases. It can be used to treat a lot of auto immune diseases and can be used in conjunction with other organ transplants to give patients a chance to come off the anti rejection meds. AND it may be a future possible cure aids.
Adult stem cells can also be taken from skin and testicles. Every organ of the body contains stem cells and they are making progress every single day.
As far as embryonic stem cells.... I support that as well. Until/unless you ban abortion and treatments like IVF you can NOT tell me that I cannot donate the fetal remains or embryos to research. While I am sure someone somewhere has been paid, by policy and law it is illegal to pay for such donations.
It is important to understand a couple things though. By the time an abortion occurs, there is not much that can be done in the way of stem cells. It is also important to understand what IVF is.
In Vitro Fertalization is a fertility treatment. Women have their eggs harvested, fertalized with sperm to create embryos, and then the embryos are frozen. With each menstrual cycle a few embryos are inserted into the uterus praying that even just one will implant. IVF by nature kills embryos, because it usually takes several cycles to work. When the inserted embryos dont implant, they are passed with the menstrual cycle and die.
After the woman has her desired children, she can do several things with the embryos.
A. Keep storing them, but the fees are outragous and most dont
B. Donate them to other women.. But must dont because most women are doing this so they can have their own biological child, and most women would not want someone else raising their biological child.
C. Release them to the clinic for destruction, which is what most do
D. Donate them to research.
Most people dont have a clue what is involved in IVF or that the embryos are dead with or without the research.
I think it is hypocritical to tell me I can kill all those embryos in vain attempts to get preg after my body has said no, but tell me I cant donate the rest of the embryos for research.
Many Christians believe that life begins the instant a sperm fertilizes an egg; thus, to them, a "bunch of cells" *is* a life. Most Christians don't differentiate between a "bunch of cells" and an adult - both are lives. Some Christians see it differently. Some believe that life begins not at fertilization, but at conception. Others believe that a born live has more value than a newly fertilized or newly conceived life. Thus, some Christians support embryonic stem-cell research because they believe it holds the potential to save lives. Either way, just a quick clarification: no one has a problem with non-embryonic stem-cell research, which has shown promise. Not all stem-cell research involves cells from embryos. Hope this helps! Feel free to message me if it does not.
Yes I do.
I know someone who wouldn't be here today if it weren't for this sort of research.
Even if I didn't I believe that it's only right that we use the science given to us to improve the lives of people with life threatening illness. The person in question has a bone cancer that will never be cured but she may get some time to enjoy her life and let the rest of us enjoy her being with us.
Stem cell research is going to help us make great strides in curing diseases like cancer,diabetes and neurological diseases.
The stem cells were harvested from the recipient in this case. Many people don't realize that this is possible.
yes. i dont understand why someone would have a problem with it. its not like they are asking people to get pregnant so we can take the stem cells, but if it can help and people are doing it anyways, why not do some testing. it could save the world. you never know.
no because there are other things we should be worrying about rather than stem cells. like aids or cancer or diabetes. something that has a lot of importance.
stem cell research is just a waste of time.
Yes, and aparently the other person has no clue what it is. There is no harm that i have heard of by doing it, and it for a good cause.
I do. Because there's no way they can make abortion all the way illegal so there's going to be those fetuses lying around somewhere, better that they didn't die in vain and they could be saving someone's life.
yes it would be very beneficial to finding cures for alot of problems the government needs to realize the benefits and allow funding.
Yes.
Of course. It'll help cure many incurable diseases by current technologies.