Why Embryonic Stem Cells Are Obsolete

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i live in ireland but fallow stem cell therpy very close in the u,s my 8 year old daughter has ataxia telangiectasia an she would benifit from stem cell therpy she can no longer walk,sit up hold a cup swallow.talk she shakes from head to toe and is fed through a button in her stomac she gets infuseions of white blood cells every 3 weeks to stop her geting sick she has been on them from the age of 4 an this will go on for the rest of her life however long she lives she is 1000 times grater risk of geting cancer and dieing from it her life is being takeing from her an their is nothing we can do but watch this ,she is becomeing traped inside a body that wont do eneything for her she is missing out on liveing because of her AT they have gotton alot of cures an treatment for other conditions from studying this but have not come up with eney thing to help kids like my daughter i would love the stem cell ban to be lifted as the u,s is the best place that a possible cure or treatment may be found for AT their healh care is top notch my little girl was in arnold palmer hospital this year while on her once in a life time wish she got really sick they had her awake and sitin up with in 2 hours an done things with her they would never do hear in ireland if they lifted the stem cell ban i would have my little girl their as soon as a treatment was ready for her with out the risk of brain cancer after reciveing the treatment the only chance my little girl has of haveing a life is if stem cell therpy an study is aloud in the us .i hope and pray it is passed.

shona mc bride 12:19PM January 03, 2012

I have two grandsons that could benefit from embryonic stem cell research. One suffered from infantile spasms and is severely brain damaged, no speech, very little language, can't be potty trained. He's no 9 yo. The other is almost 11 yo and suffers from aplastic anemia, all his bone marrow died and he was kept alive on blood and platelet transfusions and numerous drugs. He's in remission right now and is improving daily, but there is an 80% probability of relapse.
Twenty years ago we were ten years away from treatments for otherwise untreatable conditions like brain damage and aplastic anemia and a host of other conditions that could only be treated with therapies derived from embryonic stem cells. Today, because of the religious right and their bizarre agenda that puts the "rights" of eight undifferentiated cells ahead of my grandsons, we are still ten years away from treatments.
Ironically, every day they benefit from therapies that are the result of unconscionable human experimentation such as those performed by the Nazis on death camp inmates or those performed on prison inmates here in the good ole USA.
May all of those who hypocrites who oppose research on religious grounds burn in Hell for eternity.

Angry Bob of TX 11:16AM December 17, 2010

i think that stem cell research is right to do except if u have cancer and u want to cure it it just might spread the cancerous cells and u will evemtually die faster.:( but i think it is right for anyother person.

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seo lace of AL 11:06PM May 02, 2010

Stem cells will play an important role in future medical treatments because they can be readily grown and coaxed to differentiate into any cell type in culture, but even so i believe that stem cell research does not cross the point where the process out ways the negatives. I do not believe that stem cell research would ever be the right form of medical research to perform in order to help cure someone of an ailment or condition because it is just not worth it. I fell there are many other methods to cure someone and that those need to be focused on much more in the future so that stem cell research could be focused on less. I would like to see medical attention shift away from this type of research and start to shift towards somewhere else.

shady nassar of FL 7:23AM April 06, 2010