[Apologetics] FW: More breakthroughs with adult stem cells

[Art Kelly]

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Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:50 PM
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Subject: Information Alert: More breakthroughs with adult stem cells






                  Victoria Cobb, President

                  Wednesday, August 27, 2008



                  Information Alert: More breakthroughs with adult stem
cells



                  Headlines in the Washington Post today hailed yet another
new discovery in the use of adult stem cells, again bringing into question
the need to destroy human embryos to find cures for disease.

                  Researchers at Harvard University successfully transformed
one type of adult stem cell into another type – inside living mice.  The
article announces, “The feat, published online today by the journal Nature,
raises the tantalizing prospect that patients suffering from not only
diabetes but also heart disease, strokes and many other ailments could
eventually have some of their cells reprogrammed to cure their afflictions
without the need for drugs, transplants or other therapies.”

                  Since stem cells were first discovered in the late 90s,
scientists have speculated that they could be used to produce cures for a
multitude of diseases.  Unfortunately, some in the scientific community
continue to insist on destroying living human beings in embryonic form in
this effort.  That research, however, has yet to produce a single success.
In fact, not only have no cures been found resulting from the destruction of
human embryos, there haven’t been any successes in any area of science using
those stem cells.

                  Recently, Stanford researchers published results that
verify once again that embryonic stem cells are rapidly rejected by the
immune system, a problem that has plagued the use of human embryo research
since its inception.

                  On the other hand, scientists have had spectacular results
using adult stem cells – readily available with no destruction of human
life.  Dozens of treatments for disease are already being used on human
patients, and with new discoveries like the one announced yesterday, the
promise of adult stem cell research continues to grow.

                  So, you may ask, why do politicians continue to insist on
using taxpayer dollars to fund failed research while other research is
finding grand success?

                  Unfortunately, the political debate over stem cell
research is not based on science or fact – it has been hijacked by abortion
radicals and liberal politicians to be used as a wedge issue, placing the
health and well-being of millions of citizens in jeopardy to win a political
debate.

                  It is simply time to stop funding failed research with
taxpayer dollars!  We at The Family Foundation will, once again in 2009,
come to the General Assembly with budget amendments eliminating the use of
your money for failed research.  Our hope is that real scientific
breakthroughs like the once announced yesterday will actually be heeded by
those in office.





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