Let’s talk about stem cells

Oh, but I have opened the whole bucket of worms, now, haven’t I? Yeah, go get a cup of coffee, I’ll wait. Got it? Ok. Let’s chat. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I am pro-life. Nor is it a surprise that I believe life begins at conception. And just to further clarify, that means when the sperm meets the egg, not at implantation. Even in a dish, the co-joined cell is life. Not potential life. Life.

Did you know that adult stem cells have yielded for greater results as far as curing illness than fetal cells? And yet the clamor rises for funding for fetal stem cell research. I’ve never understood that. Well, that’s not true. I have understood it: it’s a great platform to promote abortion on demand, that’s what it is.

You know, I was appalled after Ronald Reagan died to hear Nancy and Ron, Jr. begging for the Bush administration to fund fetal stem cells. Ronald Reagan was staunchly pro-life, and he lived to a ripe old age. I can just see him spinning in his grave over the spin his family dished out after his death.

Man, I guess I got off on a tangent. What got me started on the subject, though, is that scientists have found another way to collect stem cells that doesn’t cause someone to DIE. Why hasn’t this been all over the news? Surely, in a country where we advertise herpes drugs in prime time, we aren’t still offended by menstruation! If you are, you can get over it by watching this Celle Client Testimonial. Then read on to find out more about how menstrual blood may be the panacea that fetal stem cells could never be:

Taking Control: Future Therapies for a Host of Serious Diseases May Be Found in Women’s Menstrual Blood

July 07, 2008: 01:28 PM EST

OLDSMAR, Fla., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — With today’s hectic lifestyle, where most women are juggling careers, family, relationships, and a host of activities, the idea of possibly facing a serious illness in the future is not something that readily comes to mind — especially when a woman is in the prime of her life. But what most women don’t know, is that the key to treating a number of possibly life-threatening diseases that she, a parent, a sibling or even her children may face in later years, such as osteoporosis, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, may be found within her own body — in vital stem cells, which can now be harvested from her own menstrual blood.

Now, thanks to the revolutionary research and technology of C’elle, a service dedicated to providing women with a safe and easy method of collecting and preserving stem cells found in her menstrual fluid each month, even the busiest woman can take control of her future, right in the privacy of her own home. With C’elle’s non-invasive collection process, menstrual cells are processed and cryo-preserved (stored at a very low temperature) for potential cellular therapies that may be used in the future. These self-renewing cells one day may even be used for sports medicine or cosmeceutical treatments, such as anti-aging therapies.

“C’elle enables and empowers a woman to take control of her future health, and possibly of those genetically closest to her, in a fast, painless and stress free way,” said Michelle Kay, Marketing and Sales Manager for C’elle. “We live in exciting times, as science and technology are discovering how extremely valuable menstrual blood stem cells really are, and the enormous treatment potential they represent for future therapies. C’elle’s ongoing research is supporting these promising findings.”

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2 thoughts on “Let’s talk about stem cells

  1. Well, your wiki link doesn’t actually support what you’re writing about. While there have been incredible advances in adult stem cell research, we still haven’t found a way to revert a specific cell back to it’s more embryonic plasticity or flexibility. I would hope more advances can be made, but we might not have a full understanding of the cell structure until more research is done on embryonic stem cells. Checking out C’elle, it doesn’t seem they’ve really made up that ground work yet either. Just that there are several types of adult stem cell, which have a degree of mutability. It really seems you’d really be better off keeping the umbilical cord fluids though.

    The reason adult stem cells might be delivering more results, is because we aren’t allowed to perform embryonic research at the same level.

    I totally understand why Nancy Reagan chose to support embryonic stem cell research. She was first witness to a horrible disease killing off one of the greatest Presidents America has ever known. He was also her husband and the father of her children. Having something like that happen to your family, I think it would be impossible not to sit down and take stock, re-examine your life. I seriously doubt RR would fault her for it.

    I get a little frustrated as it doesn’t really need to be an abortion debate. Every DAY couples go to fertility clinics and have eggs harvested and fertilized. Many opt not to have all of the eggs implanted, and quite often, after the couple is done having kids, those fertilized eggs essentially get flushed down the toilet. To me this is more like wasting an opportunity for being an organ donor. There are groups dedicated to finding “homes” for those fertilized eggs, but many still get tossed.

    What use is that? We could already be curing these diseases (and many more, auto immune, type 1 diabetes, Alzheimer, Parkinson). We could already be learning how to regress adult cells into a more embryonic state. Once we do that we WONT NEED embryonic cells. Instead, we’re caught up in a useless debate, while the practicality of the situation is, the very material we need is literally being thrown away.

    I guess I just don’t agree with “at conception”, unless it happens in the mother’s body. You need life to create life. Put a sperm in an egg, and you have the potential for life, but take that mix out of the fridge, and it’ll never be anything on it’s own. Just like any other cell, remove it from the host and it withers.
    Without the oven you’ll NEVER make the bun, you’ll only get nasty gooey dough melting all over your kitchen counter.

  2. I normally don’t approve comments with keywords as names, but yours is extensive and well thought out, so I am making an exception.

    I am not going to argue point by point with you, but I will tell you that I have recently watched a family member die from a disease that stem cells “should” have been able to cure. It didn’t change my mind, and it wouldn’t have changed hers.

    Another thing we seem to forget is that life isn’t intended to last forever. Alzheimer’s is indeed the long goodbye, but it’s victims are hardly cut off in their prime.

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