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FDA Regulating Your Stem Cells As Interstate Commerce
New submitter dcbrianw writes "A non-surgical procedure that treats joint pain involves removing stem cells from a patient's blood and reinserting them into the joint. The facility conducting these procedures resides in Colorado, but because it orders equipment to perform the procedure from outside of Colorado, the FDA claims it must regulate this process and that it can classify stem cells as a drug. This issue opens the debate of what the FDA, or other regulatory bodies, may regulate within each of our own bodies." Quick: Name five activities with no possible plausible effect on interstate commerce.
No, this is regulating the shipment of potentially biohazardous material across state lines. Also, anything that crosses a state line becomes a federal matter automatically (so the feds have jurisdiction - which has been true for a very long time). Nobody is telling you that you can't walk across a border because you contain stemcells, and this is not a secret government plot to take away constitutional rights or the rights of states. This is a sensationalist story and unworthy of Slashdot.
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So you expect ME to pay the bill if you don't buy insurance and end up at the hospital? Are you immune from injury or are you immortal? If not then you deserve to go to jail for stealing money off of ME because you refuse to by health insurance.