Paralyzed woman walks again after stem cell therapy...how is that immoral?

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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/041128/1/3ovex.html

"A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood.

Hwang Mi-Soon, 37, had been bedridden since damaging her back in an accident two decades ago.

Last week her eyes glistened with tears as she walked again with the help of a walking frame at a press conference where South Korea researchers went public for the first time with the results of their stem-cell therapy."

[deutsey]

1. It's the work of the Devil!

:eyes:

[Alpharetta]

2. the danger of using a single case to prove your point

is that a single case doesn't prove much.

I support stem cell research.

I don't get excited about this case because we don't really know what made this woman walk again. It could be a hoax for all we know.

Besides, they were using umbilical stem cells. This muddies the debate about the necessity of using the theoretically "undifferentiated" "blank slate" stem cells obtained from embryos.

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3. still, the point remains. this kind of research has incredible potential.

and i suspect little will get done about it in the next four years, at the very least.

[Alpharetta]

5. I agree

One more area the U.S. is likely to lose our technological competitive advantage is in areas of stem cell research.

The key to jobs is better education, Bush says. So if you go to school and study creationism a little bit better, good things will happen for you.

[trudyco]

9. Mexico

That's why people are going to Mexico. Doctors here study it (well, in california where I think the state decided to fund it) and they coordinate with doctors in Mexico who are practicing it. It's showing positive results in multiple ways for children with brain damage/sight damage. There is some sort of paper trying to be published.

[elehhhhna]

4. It's immoral because it makes a liar out of Laura Bush.

[tk2kewl]

6. Stone her!

[Ernesto]

7. My wife lives today because of stem cell research

My 2 (young dem) teen boys and I are lucky the chimp didn't surface a decade earlier.

[demnan]

8. I remember reading an interview with Christopher Reeves

Where he said that they were starting to do good things with stem cell research in Israel and that a Palestinian man with a similiar injury to Reeves' was now walking.

Fact is, we'll never know what we could do because we're so backward thinking in this country now.

[AngryAmish]

10. Stem cell research is not illegal, yet

It is just not funded by the fed'l govt. (Although it should be).

The Korean lady was treated with umbilical stem cells. Those can be studied w/ fed'l money. It is only embryonic stem cells research from new lines that are not funded.

[RPM]

11. doesnt count unless Jeebus Crisp does it

only He is allowed to work miracles

[TWiley]

12. Well, you gotta call that church guy on TV and tithe $10,000 first.

It is immoral to cut out the middle man. The church needs to have something besides bigotry and country music to sell.

[chicagiana]

13. Mark my words ...

... After the paralyzed are all walking again, the SECOND use for stem cells will be penis enlargements and baldness cures!!!!

[OneTwentyoNine]

14. Probably killed three unborn children for this miracle

Or so Pat Robertson and his sheep fundies will explain it....

[ShaneGR]

18. No, because these weren't Embryonic stem cells

They were umbilical stem cells, presumably taken either from a healthy individual or the victim herself.

It's a new kind of stem cell therapy research, and really remarkable.

[StopThief]

15. Source of stem cells. . .

"stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood"

Nobody, including Bush or fundamentalists has a problem with this.

[OneTwentyoNine]

16. Shhh....don't let it get out

That the cells can come from umbilical cords. The fundies want to keep the stem cell/baby killer story as fresh as possible. More made up bullshit so they can outlaw abortion ASAP

[ShaneGR]

17. Hmmm, they didnt use embryonic stems cells

Instead they used Stem cells found in the umbilical cord. Where do they get them? From healthy subjects?