Recent passage in the House of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 portends, not cures for sufferers, but Federal funding for Dr. Frankenstein.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s website carries a press release headlined Pelosi: ‘Stem Cell Research Will Give Hope to Millions of Americans who Suffer from Devastating Illnesses’.
Sadly, the hope that Speaker Pelosi ballyhoos will prove a cruel disappointment to sufferers, because, rather than the promised cures, more likely results are death or irreversible disability from malignant cancers or non-malignant, abnormal tissue growths.
Stem cell researchers enjoy the enthusiastic support of liberal media, including naturally the New York Times. As with so many policy issues, the general public have heard only half of the story.
To understand how remote is the possibility of useful stem cell therapy, and how life-threatening to experimental patients is is, read What We Know About Embryonic Stem Cells, by Maureen L. Condic, on the First Things website.
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