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Banning embryonic stem cell research is necessary for both ethical and practical reasons.  Ethically it is necessary because obtaining embryonic stem cells requires the destruction of the embryo, and would very likely lead to embryo farming to acquire such stem cells.  Creating life merely to destroy it to reap more stem cells is beyond the pale of acceptable ethics and arguably a direct violation of the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm.

From a practical point of view, negligible results or none at all have been obtained using embryonic stem cells.  Consequently, it is logical and ethically imperative to direct research and attention to the practices yielding positive treatment results.  Otherwise researchers begin to act with a lack of not only ethics, by which they are bound, but also a lack of sanity by Einsteinian definition.  Einstein pointed out that insanity becomes evident when one repeats over and over again the same process while desperately hoping for a different result.  Embryonic stem cell research is thus, by definition, insane.

Some facts about stem cell research are:

•  Not one single positive result has been achieved using embryonic stem cells, unless you consider cancer a positive result, which HAS happened!
• The use of adult stem cells has proven successful in treating 70 diseases, ranging from auto-immune to Type 2 Diabetes.
• Embryonic stem cells are valued because they are pluri-potent, however, scientists can now take adult human cells and reprogram them from being merely multi potent, and make them pluri-potent.  These are called IPS Cells (Induced Pluripotent Cells).  They are made by taking one human multi-potent cell and simply introducing four genes into the nucleus.  The result is indistinguishable, you just don’t get the satisfaction of killing babies this way.

This makes me wonder why President Obama lifted the ban on stem cell research.  Maybe he is a big fan of cancer.

To suggest that embryonic stem cells will yield miracle results, and continuing to experiment when no valuable results have been reaped, is just a waste of time, research funds, and above all, a betrayal of the ill and the infirm.  Especially when these researchers are ignoring the fact that regular stem cells and umbilical cord T-cells are generating stunning results in treating Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Nerve and Brain Damage, amongst others.

Passing a law banning fetal/embryonic stem cell research would enforce ethical practice, as well as utilize scientists for the research of non-embryonic cells.  Medical practitioners and researchers who are working with stem cells must be encouraged to follow viable paths that result in positive medical advances.

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Michael Wachter