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Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells
kkleiner writes "For many years countless individuals in the US have had to watch with envy as dogs and horses with joint and bone injuries have been cured with stem cell procedures that the FDA has refused to approve for humans. Now, in an exciting development, Regenerative Sciences Inc. in Colorado has found a way to skirt the FDA and provide these same stem cell treatments to humans. The results have been stunning, allowing many patients to walk or run who have not been able to do so for years. There's no surgery required, just a needle to extract and then re-inject the cells where they are needed. There has always been a lot of hype around stem cells, but this is the real deal. Real humans are getting real treatment that works, and we should all hope that more companies will begin offering this procedure in other states soon."
"Simply to say that embryos aren't people is to apply the same logic used to pardon the continuation of slavery"
Actually it's the same logic that could lead to the outlawing of masturbation, menstruation and miscarriages. People tend to gloss over the "implanting in the uterine wall" as the moment of conception, when that's really a much more key element than fertilization.
The slavery analogy doesn't really hold. Other than the fact that in your world slave owners could sue for the rights to the stored embryos. I think. I find you comparison somewhat confusing.
wow..what an idiot
You mean like "God wants you to stay a cripple." Gee, God, why did you invent stem cells?
I'm aware of all that, and I still think that fetal stem cells shouldn't be used.
You'd rather the stem cells end up in an incinerator instead of a lab?
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