----- Original Message -----
From: gbthomas8...@sbcglobal.net
To: bgunny7...@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [TMIC] stem cell (OT?)
Gunny and Debbie,
Thanks for the information which I did not mean to ignore. Sorry to imply all
research is with aborted fetuses. My point still is that, adult stem cell
research should not be looked upon as inferior to fetal stem cell research
when, in fact, to my knowledge, adult stem cell research has been successful.
As is often the case, politics often becomes a major issue.
My point also was to defend President Bush's decision to not support the
embryonic research with tax dollars since, in my opinion, it was morally
questionable and, secondly, not necessary for stem cell research.
I'll end my comments at this "embryonic" stage of the discussion before I get
in deeper than my limited knowledge and intellect can go but I wanted to
express what bit of the subject I am aware of and believe in.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: bgunny7...@aol.com
To: gbthomas8...@sbcglobal.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [TMIC] stem cell (OT?)
In a message dated 3/25/2009 11:06:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
gbthomas8...@sbcglobal.net writes:
Our former president, George W. Bush, so direspectfully referred to on this
list as "dumdum," was simply against the use of our tax money for embryonic
stem cell research in consideration for those opposed, on moral grounds, to the
use of aborted fetuses. Stem cell research was not stopped. It has widely
been proclaimed (even on this "list") that adult stem cell research has
actually been more successful than embryonic cell research
Not necessarily aborted fetus's. Embryonic stem cells can be grown in a petri
dish simply by marrying a male sperm with a female egg. It has nothing to do
with an abortion at all. Adult stem cells have already been programmed, which
are taken from an adult human, to make that persons body. When taken, they are
cleaned by a process known as plasma pheresis, then reinjected into that same
person. An embryonic stem cell has NOT been programmed to make anything yet. It
can be coaxed to do so where an adult cannot. An embryo is considered just that
because it does not become a fetus until it is infused with blood. That process
doesn't happen until twenty eight days after conception, and, it has no brain.
Taking that into consideration, it is not alive. It can become so if implanted
into a female uterus, but not until. So, in all actuality, it just sits in that
petri dish doing absolutely nothing. I hope this gives you better insight as to
what an embryonic stem cell is.
Gunny
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