Oh the irony

[Anonymous]

My cousin's wife recently went abroad for a medical procedure using some sort of stem-cell therapy. It was successful--she's gone from walking with a cane and being in tremendous pain to running a 5k with her daughters in the space of a couple of months. I don't know the details, we're not close but she's been posting about how great she's feeling on Facebook.

Well, all her friends are continually posting replies to her posts about how God has healed her with a "miracle" (because it had nothing to do with the medical treatment she received) and that she should send her inspirational story to Christian magazines. I really want to suggest that instead they call their legislators in support of funding and legislation for stem-cell research. You know they all voted for Bush twice and likely supported the policies that have kept this kind of treatment from being available in the United States. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Disgusting.
It's like people who are organ recipients but refuse to donate their organs because it's against their religious beliefs.

This is the kind of behavior that really turns some people against religion.

[Anonymous]

Odds are those stem cells have nothing to do with human embryos. Bush was proven correct. We get stem cells without destroying life.

[Anonymous]

So because of what her friends say, you think you need to tick off your cousin, family, etc.?

Let it go OP. How does this harm you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So because of what her friends say, you think you need to tick off your cousin, family, etc.?

Let it go OP. How does this harm you?

It harms her because the lack of access to this type of treatment in the country could very well harm her, a friend, or a loved one who doesn't have the means to go overseas but could be greatly helped by such treatment. If these people got their head out of their asses*, maybe things would be different...

*I'm not implying that every religious follower or person who is opposed to stem cell treatment has their head up their ass. Only the people who go overseas to take advantage of stem cell treatment and then return, pretend it was a miracle, and continue to vote in opposition of others having the same access to treatment.

[Anonymous]

AMEN!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So because of what her friends say, you think you need to tick off your cousin, family, etc.?

Let it go OP. How does this harm you?

It harms her because the lack of access to this type of treatment in the country could very well harm her, a friend, or a loved one who doesn't have the means to go overseas but could be greatly helped by such treatment. If these people got their head out of their asses*, maybe things would be different...

*I'm not implying that every religious follower or person who is opposed to stem cell treatment has their head up their ass. Only the people who go overseas to take advantage of stem cell treatment and then return, pretend it was a miracle, and continue to vote in opposition of others having the same access to treatment.

Or the one's who support (or have used IVF) which creates multiple, disposable embryoes, but are against stem cell research.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Odds are those stem cells have nothing to do with human embryos. Bush was proven correct. We get stem cells without destroying life.

Bullshit. On the one hand was Bush; on the other was the scientific research community. There was a medical consensus that limiting research to the current stem cell lines (which *were* derived from human embryoes) would delay research in the US--which it did.

What's likely is that OP benefited from research that was done outside of the US.

[Anonymous]

I've had several friends and family members who post their FB shout-outs to God when they recover from something. I always comment that I thank God for healing too, and also the doctors and nurses who took care of me, the scientific researchers who found the cure, and the taxpayers who funded it. No one has ever objected - usually quite the opposite (lots of "likes"). It doesn't have to be either/or.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Odds are those stem cells have nothing to do with human embryos. Bush was proven correct. We get stem cells without destroying life.

EXACTLY CORRECT.

[Anonymous]

Bush is truely a awesome, thick skinned, loyal, polite, decent, manly, person. Additionally, his wife doesn't complain about his body odor so he is also apparently "smarter" than Obama.

[Anonymous]

What diseases are currently curable by embryonic stem cells?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What diseases are currently curable by embryonic stem cells?

Exactly -- none.

There is a huge difference between stem-cells which are currently used to treat diseases effectively and human embryonic stem cells which currently don't treat anything -- not saying that they won't but currently don't.

OP, you really need to know about the issue before you open your mouth.

[Anonymous]

It is not limited to diseases. Oversea they are using them for breast enhancements. A few years ago, they could get an increase one or two cup sizes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What diseases are currently curable by embryonic stem cells?

Exactly -- none.

There is a huge difference between stem-cells which are currently used to treat diseases effectively and human embryonic stem cells which currently don't treat anything -- not saying that they won't but currently don't.

OP, you really need to know about the issue before you open your mouth.

Well in rat studies they were able to restore mobility to test subjects with severed spinal cords. It will probably work somewhat in humans and it is currently in human tests. The first recipient has received the transplant.

Es cells are being used in a trial at UCLA to reverse macular degeneration. the first two candidates were just treated.

So before you excoriate a poster you should consider that you may soon be very very wrong.