I am writing in response to the recent State News editorial “Good thing,” SN 7/5. Once again, The State News editorial board has expressed its agreement with the liberal culture of death in our society and has ignored scientific fact.
Adult stem cell research has proved far more successful and promising than embryonic stem cell research, contrary to what The State News would have you believe.
The UCLA Medical Center has performed alternative stem cell therapy on three boys in need of bone marrow transplants and all three were cured. An 18-year-old woman in Israel had her own white blood cells injected into her spinal cord to treat paraplegia caused by a car accident. She can now move her legs and toes and has control over her bladder.
Countless other examples of adult stem cell success can be read in Wesley J. Smith’s book, “Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America.” Nonembryonic stem cells can be extracted from various organs, including umbilical cord blood, placentas, fat, cadaver brains, bone marrow, spleen and pancreas. None of this requires the killing of a human embryo.
Embryonic stem cell research has not even come close to breakthroughs such as those from adult stem cell research. Embryonic stem cells have a tendency to change into all kinds of different cells without warning, which is dangerous.
In one case, embryonic stem cells were injected into diabetic mice, and the result was the creation of unattractive tumors possessing teeth, skin and gut.
Embryonic stem cell research is immoral and should not be funded by the U.S. government. Not only that, it should be banned altogether. Pro-abortionists are so worried about their right to kill that they defend this fatal issue beyond scientific reason to make sure nothing stands in their way. People are people from day one of their conception. Nothing else except food and oxygen is added to them to make them more real.
Is it OK to sacrifice human beings for possible cures to diseases five years down the road, which may or may not even work? Even if other forms of cures are available? Let’s not buy into this war against life as the liberals try to make a mockery of our intelligence.
Bonnie R. Gillis
mechanical engineering senior
