California's Proposition 71 Failure

Investors.com - California's Proposition 71 Failure

Two quotes from the article that are important to note:

Five years later, ESCR has failed to deliver and backers of Prop 71 are
admitting failure. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state
agency created to, as some have put it, restore science to its rightful place,
is diverting funds from ESCR to research that has produced actual therapies and
treatments: adult stem cell research. It not only has treated real people with
real results; it also does not come with the moral baggage ESCR does.

To
us, this is a classic bait-and-switch, an attempt to snatch success from the
jaws of failure and take credit for discoveries and advances achieved by
research Prop. 71 supporters once cavalierly dismissed. We have noted how over
the years that when funding was needed, the phrase "embryonic stem cells" was
used. When actual progress was discussed, the word "embryonic" was dropped
because ESCR never got out of the lab.

And this one:

Dr. Bernadine Healy, director of the National Institutes of Health under
Bush 41, wrote in her U.S. News & World Report column recently that
"embryonic stem cells, once thought to hold the cure for Alzheimer's,
Parkinson's and diabetes, are obsolete."

Even worse, they can be
dangerous. They are difficult to control, to coax into the specific type of
tissue desired. Unlike adult stem cells taken from a patient's own body, ES
cells require the heavy use of immunosuppressive drugs. Their use can lead to a
form of tumor called a teratoma.

Real promise is held in what are called
induced pluripotent stem cells. In 2006, researchers led by Dr. Shinya Yamanaka
of Japan's Kyoto University were first able to "reprogram" human skin cells to
behave like embryonic stem cells. They can do everything stem cells from
destroyed embryos can do.

The National Institutes of Health has said
that this type of stem cell offers the prospect of having a renewable source of
replacement cells and tissues to treat diseases like Parkinson's and
Alzhei-mer's, spinal cord injury, stroke, burns, heart disease, diabetes,
osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, to name a few.

EMBRYONIC Stem Cell Research has done NOTHING but experiment on human beings, and needs to cease!!

God bless!