Stem Cell Idiocy

Amendment 2 passed by a slim margin in Missouri, and that’s a shame:

Missourians “have lost a significant battle for the protection of human life,” declared Archbishop Raymond L. Burke following the Nov. 7 passage of a constitutional amendment to protect human cloning and embryonic stem-cell research.

Amendment 2 passed by a slim margin, with just over a 1 percent difference in the voting results. As of Review press time, the amendment was passing 50.7 percent to 49.3 percent, with all but a little more than 100 of 3,734 precincts reporting.

“The citizens of Missouri have succumbed to a false hope created by a campaign, which has played on the desire of us all to help those suffering from deadly diseases and serious injuries,” Archbishop Burke said in a statement. After returning from Union for a Confirmation Mass, the archbishop watched the returns of the election until late in the evening before going to bed. Like many, he learned of the final results the following morning.

An amendment that basically created a right to clone embroyo’s so they could use them for stem cell research passed in this country and that is just sad. Not only that, it’s going forward in other countries:

Australia’s Senate voted on Tuesday to allow cloned stem cells to be used for medical research after an emotional and divisive debate on relaxing restrictions on research.

The bill passed by two votes in the 76-seat Senate and will now go to the lower house of parliament in late November, where supporters believe they can muster the numbers to overturn existing bans on research on cloned stem cells.

What kind of sad individual thinks it’s ok to clone an embroyo so they can use it for their own gain when it has not produced one long term result that would give anyone one iota of hope, not one successful example that they can take back and say “hey, this might just work”. No, all it’s produced is tumors while adult stem cell research has produced many examples of SUCCESSFUL research: (via The Strenuous Life)

A study in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrated once again the promise of adult stem cells as an avenue for treating diabetes mellitus. In this study diabetic mice were provided multi-potent cells obtained from human bone marrow by injection into the heart. A few of these cells found their way to the pancreas and kidneys where they exerted a healing effect on these tissues. This resulted not only in lowered blood sugars, but also reversed some kidney damage. Interestingly, when a previous study provided embryonic stem cells to diabetic mice the blood sugar improved similarly, but the cells eventually produced tumors. Development of tumors has been a common problem in animal studies using embryonic stem cells, yet the drum beat continues for research that requires the destruction of human embryos.

But still we have people like Michael J. Fox making ads to promote someone who thinks this research will actually go somewhere. Research that destroys life. Research that has not had ONE successful trial. All the while Michael and his cohorts ignore all the good that adult stem cell research does.

But wait! All of a sudden, after an election in which the Democrats won, the MSM is talking about how great adult stem cells may be. Amazing what an election can do huh?

I bet they will start talking about how great the economy is doing now huh?