"Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again," the Times of London reports. That's the first paragraph. In the eighth and ninth, we learn that this promising field of technology is under threat from "powerful critics":
Previous studies have suggested that stem-cell therapies offer huge potential to treat a variety of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neuron disease. A study by British scientists in November also reported that stem-cell injections could repair organ damage in heart attack victims.
But research using the most versatile kind of stem cells--those acquired from human embryos--is currently opposed by powerful critics, including President Bush.
So that means if Bush had his way, he would've stopped the new diabetic breakthrough? Uh, no, it turns out:
After stem cells had been harvested from their blood, they then underwent a mild form of chemotherapy to eliminate the white blood cells causing damage to the pancreas. They were then given transfusions of their own stem cells to help rebuild their immune systems.
So this story has nothing to do with embryonic stem cells. But the Times doesn't tell us that until paragraph No. 16.
Could libs in the MSM have an agenda hoping people won't read the whole story so that they think the stem cells were embryonic? Could John Edwards and the Democratic party have the same agenda?
Obviously yes. And why?
Hoping people will remain ignorant that of the 4 kinds of stem cell therapies, i.e.
1 - embryonic;
2 - adult;
3 - umbilical cord blood; and
4 - amniotic fluid
ONLY embryonic has NEVER cured or helped ONE patient after two decades of research. All the other three types have helped and cured many patients.
Embryonic stem cells are obtained from fetuses that are later "destroyed" (read killed). Much as babies are killed in abortions. Exactly like.
Umbilical cord blood stem cells have produced the greatest results. They are obtained after a live baby is born.
Ironic isn't it?
Abortion proponents and all of the liberal Democratic Party of death proponents want people to change the way they think about abortion. They want them to think that abortion can be a life-saving act instead of the homicide that it is. Their fall-back position is to pit the lives of the small in stature against those larger in stature that have Ferrari payments.
The MSM, liberals and Democrats depend upon lies and ignorance to advance this agenda.
The headline should have identified what KIND of stem cells produced the breakthrough.
Breakthroughs by all kinds of stem cells EXCEPT those obtained from little lives destined for homicidal endings explains why private firms doing research on the other three kinds are doing well and why few private investors want to invest in the loser that is embryonic SCR.
Hence, the drive to keep taxpayers ignorant while they push for government funds for their disguised abortion rehabilitation plan.
See also gamecock's Michael J. Fox vs. Science Rush from the 2006 campaign for more detailed information and links on the issue.
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