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American College of Pediatricians Calls for End to Embryonic
Stem Cell Research cpforlife.org's thread
Pediatricians Call for Support for Adult Stem Cell Research,
saying that embryonic stem cell research is "fiscally
irresponsible and medically unconscionable."
NIH Stem Cell Basics
Rush Limbaugh and the Stem Cell Controversy
A Clarifying Five Years - Stem-cell politics under a microscope
Quote from this article:
[E]mbryonic-stem-cell activists ... declare dismissively that
human embryos are simply microscopic “clumps of cells,” ignoring
the biological fact that we all began our lives as embryos —
that the term “embryo” refers to a stage of development in the
life of an enduring individual, whose moral worth hardly depends
on size or appearance.
Stem Cells: Embryonic vs. Non-Embryonic
Quote from this article:... research
has shown that embryonic stem cells (ESCs), which are derived
from embryos that are destroyed in the process, have great
potential to produce cancer in humans. Also, with ESCs it is
necessary to employ techniques to avoid immune rejection of ESCs.
One technique, called somatic cell nuclear transfer, is being
attempted worldwide to produce customized ESCs. As Time
pointed out in a related article in the Aug. 7 issue, somatic
cell nuclear transfer is a “term researchers use to avoid the
more incendiary word cloning, even though it is the same
technology that created Dolly the sheep.”
Stem Cell News:
Stem cell breakthrough for breast cancer patients
Stem Cell Fact Sheet

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