Stem Cell Research – Adult versus Embryonic Stem Cells / Pro-Life Educational Video PSA
Stem Cell Research – Adult versus Embryonic Stem Cells / Pro-Life Educational Video PSA
Last Updated on Monday, 2 August 2010 09:30 Written by Administrator Monday, 2 August 2010 09:30
This video presents the Catholic Church’s teaching on human life as it relates to adult and embryonic stem cell research — courtesy of the Michigan Catholic Conference. Please visit www.aodonline.org for more information. There are two different types of stem cell research — adult and embryonic. Adult stem-cell research is ethical, because it does not harm the human embryo, and is proven — as more than 70 different medical conditions are being treated with adult stem cells — whereas embryonic stem-cell research is unproven as no cures or treatments have been identified. Also, embryonic stem-cell research is immoral as it leads to human cloning and necessitates the destruction of the human embryo to extract its stem cells — a profound violation of human life. The Catholic Church supports adult stem cell research and encourages the faithful to do likewise. The Catholic Church supports stem-cell research and therapy utilizing stem cells harvested from adults and umbilical-cord blood. The Church opposes embryonic-stem cell research because the human embryo is destroyed to harvest the stem cells. While embryonic stem-cell research has received considerable publicity and the endorsement of some high-profile celebrities, it is adult stem cell research that has so far yielded the best results. Adult stem-cell research is currently treating more than 70 medical conditions in human patients, including several types of cancer, Parkinson’s disease, sickle-cell anemia, Type I …
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gift3dluk31, you are welcome!
thank you this helps alot with my speech on stem cells
themachine2, you are welcome!
very informational. thank you
We’ve all heard about the paralyzed teen who got special ESC proceedures in a hidden villiage of Tibet,,,because no one in the civilized world would or could preform those special proceedures.
Yea, OK.
samm – With a little research you will find that the theory is ESCs have more potential. And they very well may. However, as of this date, there have been no breakthroughs, in ESCR, , , But the best results have been realized in ASCR.
Why is it that no one in Canada or the states that has these treatment centres and you have to go outside of the country just to get treated? sorry everyone about all of the questions I’m just wonderng about it.
Why do they say that it’s not promising?
Ozone treatments and also Stem Cell treatments do help too.
“Since the embryos he planned to use were doomed anyway– one of the arguments cited by Bush–he decided he was justified by the good that might come of the research. ‘I could not see that throwing them out was better”
If embryos were destroyed AND ALREADY DEAD, my logic would then be to put them to better use such as research than just “trash” them or dispose of them anyways….
reminds me of one of those in-game videos in Doom 3
but yeah..adult stem cells are legit, useful and should be used for theraputic cloning
I wonder if there is an available text for this video. Can anyone help me?
evanom2, thank you for your comments!
Nice video. I dont know anything about this topic but one thing is for sure, any destruction of life in progress, regardless of the phase, is criminal to God and life.
If you dont want to watch the whole thing then watch from 4:52 to 8:49 it goes over all the scientific problems(and the moral problem) with trying to use or research embryonic stem cells that are on this video.
padraicbg and wgunn both show the power of influence. They can make a challenge without evidence to back up their claim. padraicbg claims it’s propaganda without stating evidence contrary to anything said in the video. wgunn makes claims about differences. and welcomes ethics for the “leftovers”. Protestants number over 2500 denominations in the US with 5 new ones every year (see the Handbook of Denominations in the United States published by Mean and Hill).
padraicbg, there is no bias in the video. The only reason you say that is because you disagree with the conclusions; conclusions which are based on sound science, sound ethics and sound theology. If the video had come to the opposite conclusion, you would be saying what a great video this is…
wgunn, adult stem cells are achieving the objectives the embryonic stem cells have yet to achieve. Killing and embryo for scientific study is worth of Dr. Mengele. The Church understands the science and the ethics of the situation, which is more than I can say for those who wish to kill embryonic human life.
ESCs and ASCs are different cells, and useful for different things. You can’t substitute one for the other. People need to know that the Catholic Church places their particular version of ethics above any scientific consideration, and have mistakenly conflated ESC research with their views on abortion. Ethics advice is welcomed, but they need to understand the science first in order to make an ethical judgment. Use of IVT leftovers is generally agreed by non-Catholic ethicists to be OK.