FDA Approves Human Trials Using Embryonic Stem Cells Despite Serious Medical Dangers, Destruction of Human Life
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From Americans United for Life Blog: By Mailee Smith
Today the biotech company
Geron will make an unprecedented announcement: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to allow the company to conduct human trials utilizing human embryonic stem cells.
Ironically (or perhaps not), the FDA’s decision came right after President Obama’s inauguration. It is just one of the many steps planned by the new administration to tear down the walls protecting human life.
Geron plans to conduct its trial on 8 to 10 people with spinal cord injuries. The embryonic stem cells will be injected into the spinal cord at the injury site. Geron has emphasized that the focus of this first trial will be safety (rather than efficacy), but it’s difficult to see how Geron can “safely” protect patients from the disastrous effects embryonic stem cells have had in mice, as well as the devastating results we have seen in the use of more advanced fetal stem cells in human trials.
For example, in animal testing, embryonic stem cells cause a significant number of recipients to develop tumors. Using more developed fetal stem cells, a 52-year-old man died when the cells implanted in his brain became hair, cartilage, and connective tissue. In another case, a group of patients with neural degenerative diseases with
violent, uncontrollable shaking received fetal cell transplants into their brains. Rather than improving, 15-25 percent developed severe dyskinesia (worse shaking than they had before). This failure of more specialized fetal cells is an indicator of how much more difficult it likely will be to get less specialized embryonic stem cells to work.
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