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Scientist Pushing for Early Use of Stem Cells
hzs202 writes "BBC News is reporting that Professor Ian Wilmut is pushing for stem cell treatment to be offered to people with terminal illnesses. Professor Wilmut told journalists that the treatment could save lives or at least speed up the pace of research, however it is yet to be fully tested." From the article: "If we wait until things are totally tested and analyzed in animals, it will deny some people treatment"
Personally, if I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, I'd say, FDA be damned, give it to me now. Risking that my 6 months to live will become 3 months is worth it if it gives me a small chance of being cured.
"I have as much authority as the pope, I just
don't have as many people who believe it" - George Carlin
you might as well better the rest of the human race and be a guinea pig for a drug or treatment that might save the lives of thousands.
you might as well better the bottom line of a mega-pharmaceudical and be a guinea pig for a drug or treatment that might save the lives of thousands of wealthy people.
Fixed.
stem cells from unimplanted embryos desginated for the trash heap != dead babies
pathetic.
"I have as much authority as the pope, I just
don't have as many people who believe it" - George Carlin
So because you believe life begins when a baby leaves the mother's womb, and others believe it begins at conception, that gives you the right to murder(as seen by the other side) a baby for better looking skin?
Your flippant attitude to what others see as murder should be moded WAY DOWN.
Prof. Farnsworth - "Oh a lesson in not changing history from Mr I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!"
So ALL people who think abortions are murder bomb clinics? You are pathetic.
Prof. Farnsworth - "Oh a lesson in not changing history from Mr I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!"
All you really have to say is, sex is dirty. Let us know when you make it out of the nineteenth century.
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.