Comments on: Stem Cell Chickenhawks http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2006/10/24/stem-cell-chickenhawks/ kthxbai Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:56:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bridget http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2006/10/24/stem-cell-chickenhawks/#comment-13040 Bridget Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=2914#comment-13040 Vinnie, as you well know I do have a spinal cord injury complete with permanent nerve damage running down my entire left leg. You know what? I am not a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I refuse to have my body healed at the expense of innocent children's lives. How could I possibly justify it? Especially knowing that so far there has been no breakthroughs in the research of embryonic stem cell research for those embryonic stem cells they already have. More "breakthroughs" have been made with adult stem cells and cord stem cells than with embryonic stem cells. Personally I think this is just another way for abortion advocates to keep up their work by giving yet another excuse to keep abortion legal and readily available - hey, it's not only a form of birth control it's also saving hundreds of lives!! *cough* Bullcrap *cough* I am for stem cell research, but not when it's harvested from embryos. I feel women who give birth should go ahead and donate the stem cells from the umbilical cord, or cord bank it all. After all, there is no real reason not to since it's all going to be discarded with the medical waste anyway. I donated my youngest daughter's cord blood for medical advancements. (We didn't have the money to cord bank it at the time... well, actually, we still don't. :P ) Maybe I'll be in pain for the rest of my life. Maybe I'll walk with a permanent limp for the rest of my life. At least the quality of my life is not being improved at the expense of children who's lives were cut short. I'll improve my quality of life through going to see my pain management doctor. My conscience is clear. <div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('13040','Bridget'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('13040','Bridget','Vinnie, as you well know I do have a spinal cord injury complete with permanent nerve damage running down my entire left leg. You know what? I am not a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I refuse to have my body healed at the expense of innocent children\'s lives. How could I possibly justify it? Especially knowing that so far there has been no breakthroughs in the research of embryonic stem cell research for those embryonic stem cells they already have. More \"breakthroughs\" have been made with adult stem cells and cord stem cells than with embryonic stem cells. \n\nPersonally I think this is just another way for abortion advocates to keep up their work by giving yet another excuse to keep abortion legal and readily available - hey, it\'s not only a form of birth control it\'s also saving hundreds of lives!! *cough* Bullcrap *cough* \n\nI am for stem cell research, but not when it\'s harvested from embryos. I feel women who give birth should go ahead and donate the stem cells from the umbilical cord, or cord bank it all. After all, there is no real reason not to since it\'s all going to be discarded with the medical waste anyway. I donated my youngest daughter\'s cord blood for medical advancements. (We didn\'t have the money to cord bank it at the time... well, actually, we still don\'t. :P ) \n\nMaybe I\'ll be in pain for the rest of my life. Maybe I\'ll walk with a permanent limp for the rest of my life. At least the quality of my life is not being improved at the expense of children who\'s lives were cut short. I\'ll improve my quality of life through going to see my pain management doctor. My conscience is clear.\n'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Vinnie, as you well know I do have a spinal cord injury complete with permanent nerve damage running down my entire left leg. You know what? I am not a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I refuse to have my body healed at the expense of innocent children’s lives. How could I possibly justify it? Especially knowing that so far there has been no breakthroughs in the research of embryonic stem cell research for those embryonic stem cells they already have. More “breakthroughs” have been made with adult stem cells and cord stem cells than with embryonic stem cells.

Personally I think this is just another way for abortion advocates to keep up their work by giving yet another excuse to keep abortion legal and readily available – hey, it’s not only a form of birth control it’s also saving hundreds of lives!! *cough* Bullcrap *cough*

I am for stem cell research, but not when it’s harvested from embryos. I feel women who give birth should go ahead and donate the stem cells from the umbilical cord, or cord bank it all. After all, there is no real reason not to since it’s all going to be discarded with the medical waste anyway. I donated my youngest daughter’s cord blood for medical advancements. (We didn’t have the money to cord bank it at the time… well, actually, we still don’t. :P )

Maybe I’ll be in pain for the rest of my life. Maybe I’ll walk with a permanent limp for the rest of my life. At least the quality of my life is not being improved at the expense of children who’s lives were cut short. I’ll improve my quality of life through going to see my pain management doctor. My conscience is clear.

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