Feds OK 2nd human study of embryonic stem cells

[Feds OK 2nd human study of embryonic stem cells by Malcolm Ritter] "For only the second time, the U.S. government has approved a test in people of a treatment using embryonic stem cells - this time for a rare disease that causes serious vision loss.

Advanced Cell Technology, a biotechnology company based in Santa Monica., Calif., said the research should begin early next year, following the green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Just last month another biotech company, Geron Corp., said it had begun preliminary testing in people for treating spinal cord injuries by injecting cells derived from embryonic stem cells.

Scientists hope to use stem cells to create a variety of tissues for transplant. But human embryos have to be destroyed to harvest those cells, which has made their use controversial..." Full text

Do you support experimentation on the youngest, most vulnerable among us? Would you want your vision improved by the death of another? If you met the victim of this experimentation face to face one day, what would you say to him/her? Pr 23:7

Response to comment [from an atheist]:  "...[T]his is a total non-starter for discussion. No one who thinks that an embryo is a person would support this, so the only people you're talking to are going to be people who already fundamentally agree with you."

I am speaking with people willing to address reality (Matt. 26:69–75, Matt. 10:33, 2 Pet. 2:1, Jer 1:5).  If this is not you, move along (Re 22:11).

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "I find it very difficult to call 100 undifferentiated cells a "person"."

You could believe God (Jer 1:5).

Response to comment [from an atheist]:  "Translation from SD-speak: I am speaking to people who already agree with me..."

Does God exists? Are children children?  Do I exist?    You are free to debate these issues with others in a philosophy 101 class.  

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  [Alate_One quote:  "I find it very difficult to call 100 undifferentiated cells a "person". It's odd that there used to be terrible prohibitions against studying the deceased for many of the same reasons."]  "Big difference! One is alive and the other is dead. Dead is dead."

'Lat_O might spiritualize "dead...raised...whatever" like Barbi. "See, there's a big difference between mostly dead, and all dead." ~ Miracle Max.

These things tend to happen when you reject the foundations of Christianity found in the book of Genesis. "You fundies are so picky about this whole "resurrection" thing anyway.

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "The line between "alive" and "dead" is a lot fuzzier than you've been lead to believe."

What do you think of the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Was Jesus raised physically, literally, bodily?

Response to comment [from a Satanist]:  "Life and personhood are not the same thing."

When did you become a person?  Jer 1:5.

Feds OK 2nd human study of embryonic stem cells