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Originally Posted by Botnst
I believe if you do the research you'll find that medical ethicists, regardless of religion, are divided over embryonic stem cell research.
To my knowledge, it is perfectly legal to conduct embryonic stem cell research except from one funding source.
If somatic epithelial cells can be forced to revert to stem cells, why not use them?
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We are doing that.
A friend of mine had a serious heart problem. He had treatment using his own stem cells and he's pretty much fully recovered. He even made the news because it was experimental treatment and he's only like one or two people in the US who have had it.
Now I don't know if they used somatic epithelial cells, but his condition was pretty serious and now he has no effects from it.
It pretty much proves you don't need aborted fetus's, feti? to get stem cells.
I think the issue is religious in nature. The whole thing can be traced to abortions, where most of the fetus's come from.
It ranks right up there with cloning. Where do you draw the line?
Danny