Cain Redux
Jill Stanek a pro-life nurse who had been in the news before for blowing the whistle on infanticide at Christ Hospital has a good pro-life blog and today talks about Embryonic stem cell research's best kept secret
..."Using stem cells derived from the patient's own spinal cord, a team of Korean scientists have revived the damaged part of his brain," reported Seoul, South Korea's Chosun.com today. The article added that 64 of 74 patients treated for various arterial and bone disorders with their own spinal cord cells showed "significant improvement without any signs of side effects" (emphases mine).
That's a great story (no one will hear about), but stop. What are the side effects? ABCNews.com added that researchers reported "no side effects such as immunity rejection during the therapy" (emphasis mine).
The best kept secret of ESCR is that it will fail without human cloning. It's all about the match. We're all familiar with this concept due to the decades-old bone marrow (one type of adult stem cell) transplant program. A key to treatment is finding an exact match between donor and recipient.
All these embryonic stem cell experiments that researchers are trying to get taxpayers to fund on the premise of treating just about every disease known to humankind will rarely if ever match recipients, because embryos are unique humans who grow their own unique cells.
This is why human cloning is so closely tied to ESCR. Only cloning will result in guaranteed exact matches. Just try to get rid of cloning - excuse me, somatic cell nuclear transfer - verbiage in legislation. Go ahead, try. They'll bite your head off (and probably steal your stem cells).
This is why we're having so much trouble passing anti-cloning legislation federally and in various states. To do so would cause ESCR to die in the petri dish.
So ESCR will not only be a form of cannibalism it will also be fratricide. That you kill your own clone for some theoretical cure. Sibling rivalry elevated to a new level in a survival of the oldest. Cain and Able in a petri dish. "Where is your brother conceived in the laboratory?" "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?" The modern Cain's are also running from the presence of the Lord.
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Now that is just out and out sick and scary...
To be sick, and for medical reasons they clone you, and then use what they need from the clone baby of yourself, and then have them kill your cloned baby selff. Kind of, well, it would be you but not you, but it is. How messed up is that???
So, to be consistent, are they going to let identical twins kill one another for organ transplants?
Curt: Thanks for the trackback.
All: Enlightening comments. I like the use of language ("cannibalism," "fratricide" - had to look that one up!, "sibling rivalry," "your cloned baby self," "identical twins kill one another") to point out the insanity.
Regards,
It should be spelled as "infanticide", not "infatiside", Curt Jester.
Whoa. Hadn't thought about it that way - chilling. Not having a background in biology, I'm a bit confused though: if scientists have been able to use stem cells from a patient's own spine, as in the excerpted story from Seoul (and I've heard of other similiar adult stem cell stories) why the big push to go the ESCR route?