Uncle Sam wants your money for embryonic stem cell research. An evil bridge to nowhere.

Our government wants more of your hard earned money to sink into embryonic stem cell research. The stem cells taken from human beings that have not been born yet. Those human beings are actually killed for their stem cells. Well here is a plain talk column from a reader of the Baltimore Sun Newspaper. EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS HAVE NEVER CURED ANYTHING. False hopes to fuel our societies acceptance of the harvesting of body parts from unborn human beings. On the side bar of this blog is a link to info on the success of the use of adult stem cells.(no one gets killed or hurt and the government doesn't waste your money on the stem cells that come from innocent, wasted human beings).

Glad I was born before anyone knew about stem cells. Aren't you?

Adult stem cells provide real cures

Baltimoresun.com February 26, 2009

Adult stem cell research has produced treatments for 73 different conditions, while embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single therapy or helped a single patient. But those facts were conveniently omitted from a recent column advocating increased taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research ("Stem cell opportunity," Commentary, Feb. 20).

The column also neglected to mention the biggest advance in stem cell research in the last decade - the creation of induced pluripotent stem cells.

That development allows researchers to reprogram adult stem cells to behave like embryonic stem cells without destroying human embryos. It was hailed by the journal Science as the scientific breakthrough of 2008 and trumpeted on a recent Time magazine cover.

Maryland taxpayers have dedicated $36 million to stem cell research in the last two years. But only projects involving adult stem cell research have produced therapies that are actually treating patients.

Maybe there's a reason venture capitalists are wary to invest private dollars in embryonic stem cell research: It doesn't work.

Our elected officials should follow their lead, and use shrinking state taxpayer dollars prudently by funding proven, ethical research that is now treating patients: adult stem cell research, including work with induced pluripotent stem cells. Nancy E. Paltell