Human embryos and fertility clinics, Are pro-life leaders ignoring the real problems? [And I am, (this author), pro-life, by the way].
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On the order of 9,000 of the 400,000 embryos preserved in cryogenic freezers in American fertility clinics are available for use by other couples; and many will not survive nor ever ever be implanted; it doesn't say exactly how many they have disposed of; but obviously it is many, and many more will be. They can take that up with the fertility clinics??? Not with the embryonic research that benefited from a small portion of those total number of embryo's that were ever out there.
Now lets go here?
Human Embryos Routinely Discarded at U.S. Fertility Clinics
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Philadelphia, PA (LifeNews.com) -- Human embryos are routinely discarded at fertility clinics in the U.S., raising new concerns about the ethics of the in vitro fertilization industry.
A new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University indicates that 84 percent of clinics throw out "extra" embryos created during in IVF procedures.
As many as 400,000 other embryos are in a kind of icy limbo -- frozen in storage facilities -- likely to die before being implanted in a woman's uterus.
In IVF, multiple embryos are often created to increase the chances that a pregnancy will be carried to term. Sometimes, couples opt to use excess embryos for future pregnancies, or to donate them to other couples wishing to adopt children.
The study showed that 76 percent of clinics offered the adoption option; 60 percent, disposal of the embryos before freezing; 54 percent, disposal after freezing; 60 percent, donation for scientific experimentation; and 19 percent, donation for training doctors.
Clinics that disposed of embryos treated the days-old unborn children like medical waste and often discarded them by means of incineration.
If you can donate life-saving stem cells from a days-old fetus, that is a far greater goal to society than throwing it away in the trash," Fiona Hutton, a Proposition 71 spokeswoman, told the San Jose Mercury News.
"Getting parental consent is not adequate," Jan Carroll of the California Pro-Life Council told the newspaper. "This is not valid consent. Embryos should have their own rights to give consent, and they don't."
Some doctors involved in IVF say they have a moral obligation to produce fewer excess embryos during their procedures.
"Every embryo should be viewed as something more than just a piece of tissue," Dr. Carl Herbert of Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco told the Mercury News. "Even if couples decide to discard it, it should be considered that it was special."
An estimated 50,000 American women each year turn to IVF in the hopes of achieving pregnancy.
So, does anyone here yet see any sense in this? Lets forsake healing people in wheel chairs, and quadriplegics, so we can
have proper respect for the embryo's that are a living life? While we can clearly see that many of them are not viable; nor will not ever see a birthed form of human life. We can see the proof here that these embryos, many will not and have not survived no matter what is done later. If we allow organ donation; then why not this; and for the much better good. If some good can come from death, let it be life? Giving a better life to a person with paralysis; or some other disorder we have not found a cure for in years; and with nothing yet even on the horizon for drugs, nor therapies, etc.
Where are any of the cures they have spent billions on? The pharma cures? Is it NOT time to act, on something? Look at what is on this site for cures and better ways to reverse health problems? Refusal to provide true health care on all levels. Drag their feet and spread more misinformation, or give no information on what they continue to ignore.
There is so much misleading misinformation out there! The false polarization of our people, and nothing good is gained because they remain so mislead. This is again, why I do what I do. The devil said he would go out and mislead all nations, and to the four corners of the earth. Or however many you want to count. (He did a good job)!
You can understand that, or not.
This page nor site does not currently address the research on adult stem cells; however there is allot of it out there, with good results. Most seems to be however unknown and unavailable to the general public, unless you research it, and go to where it is. In the U.S. and elsewhere, it is now there. As said, there clearly may be good applications for both types. One may not be able to do what the other can.
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So, if you still not sure what went on here, lets briefly review some of what we just went through, and the highlights again.
The fact is that the Geron research has shown very good outcomes in animal models; and where else are you going to get research to go to the FDA with; as they do not allow such approved trials on humans, without it.
Ok, next lets go here below and look at some of the progress in ASC research, and in regard to spinal cord injuries and stem cells.
Adult Human Neural Stem Cell Therapy Successful In Treating Spinal Cord Injury. ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2005) — Irvine, Calif. -- Researchers at the UC Irvine Reeve-Irvine Research Center have used adult human neural stem cells to successfully regenerate damaged spinal cord tissue and improve mobility in mice.
So, where is their FDA approved clinical trial? Has any even been applied for? As of this date, I do not find any. Get the picture?
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Here is as well, some brief information on the olfactory sinus area stem cells, you may have heard of being transplanted, and now showing as well some interesting results in regard spinal cord injury. If this is being done in the US, I didn't yet run onto any information as to that it is. It is being done in Portugal.
Testimony at Senate Committee on Science, Technology, and Space Hearing: Adult Stem Cell Research, Wednesday, July 14 2004 by Laura Dominguez
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My name is Laura Dominguez. I am 19 years old and live in San Antonio, TX. Three years ago, while on the way home from summer school, my brother and I were involved in a car accident that left me paralyzed from the neck down. The accident was caused by an oil spill on the highway. An oil spill that we had nothing to do with, but by chance was on the roadway in our lane. I suffered a C6 vertebrae burst fracture and my spinal cord was severely damaged. At that time doctors gave me absolutely no chance of ever walking again. I refused to accept their prognosis and began searching for other options.
After being hospitalized (in several hospitals) for almost a year, my mother and I relocated to San Diego, CA so that I could undergo extensive physical therapy. While in California, we met a family whose daughter was suffering from a similar spinal cord injury. They were also looking for other alternatives to deal with spinal cord injuries. After extensive research and consultations with medical experts in the field of spinal cord injuries, we decided the best procedure, that exists today, was being performed in Portugal. We teamed up with the Nader family, a group of Doctors from the Detroit Medical Center, and flew to Portugal to undergo this new surgical procedure.
The surgery involved the removal of tissue from my olfactory sinus area and transplanting it into my spinal cord at the injury site. Both procedures, the harvesting of the tissue and the transplant were done at the same time. I was the tenth person in the world and the second American to have this procedure done.
After the surgery, I returned to California to continue physical therapy. I stayed there until July of 2003 and then returned back to San Antonio, TX. At that time an MRI was taken and it revealed my spinal cord had begun to heal. Approximately 70% of the lesion now looked like normal spinal cord tissue.
I was also starting to regain feeling in my upper body and within six months I had regained feeling down to my abdomen. Improvements in my sensory feelings have continued until the present time. I can now feel down to my hip level and have started to regain feeling and some movement down to my legs. My upper body has gained more strength and balance. Another one of the most evident improvements has been my ability to stand and remain standing, using a walker, and with minimal assistance. When I stand I can contract my quadriceps and hamstring muscles. I can also stand on my toes when I am on my feet. And more importantly, while lying down in a prone position, I am able to move my feet.
My training has continued to this day and I am able to better use the muscles in my hip area. I am able, with assistance and the use of braces, to walk a distance of over 1400 feet. It takes approximately thirty minutes to walk this distance and it is extremely tiring, but it can be done. I will continue to challenge myself until I can fully walk again with little or no assistance from braces or the help of a therapist. I hope…no, I know…this will be possible by my 21st birthday
Read the full article here.
This study and research as said done in Portugal. So now you can ask, as well; when is the next FDA approved clinical trial going to be getting done on and with that procedure, and here in the US? Do you think there is anything wrong with the priorities in healing, withinin our U.S. medical fields. Is the real desire to heal; or is the desire to just make money and have security, for far to many? To tow the politcally correct party line. Noone is helped by that.