by JivinJ
But researchers argue that a shortage of eggs fueled by the payment ban is what's kept them from making the advances that prove their technique's real potential."You need to have enough eggs to make this thing work, and when you have enough eggs it does work," said Dr. Sam Wood, chief executive of La Jolla-based Stemagen Corp....
"If these guidelines weren't in place, we'd already have many [stem cell] lines and be much closer to a treatment for devastating illnesses for which these are so well suited," Wood said.
Yeah. Right. You just have to forget that the technique is highly inefficient (remember Hwang Woo-Suk got his hands on approximately 2,000 human eggs and produced no cloned human embryos) and a complete waste of time and resources and then realize that if scientists got whatever they wanted then these treatments from the cells of cloned human embryos would magically be within our reach.
"I drank [the pregnancy] to death under the basketball hoop," she said. "I nearly drank me dead, too. I had to find that balance between it dying and me dying, you know?"
Why is "the pregnancy" in [ ]? My guess is the woman in question used different words, like "the baby" or "my child" to describe what she was drinking to death.
[Illustration courtesy of Jackson Hole Planet]
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Why is "the pregnancy" in [ ]? My guess is the woman in question used different words, like "the baby" or "my child" to describe what she was drinking to death.
I think it was probably just edited for clarity. The woman was probably telling the whole story and said, "I drank it to death" but the editor, because of where she began quoting from, had to indicate what noun the 'it' was supposed to represent. I have only ever really known people to do that when the goal is clarifying, ie adding a last name or a description, or filling in a noun in place of a pronoun -- I've never known anyone to change a word that was perfectly clear on its own just for the sake of changing the message.
Posted by: Alexandra at July 31, 2008 7:33 PMAs far as the buying of human eggs goes, here is a website that all, pro-lifers as well as pro-choicers, can and should get behind http://handsoffourovaries.com/
Posted by: Bobby Bambino at July 31, 2008 8:08 PMBarbara Curtis is an angel.
Posted by: truthseeker at July 31, 2008 11:06 PMRegarding the comment of the day....
If Josh Hartnett wants to marry someone that will have his babies, where do I sign?
:P
Posted by: Lyssie at July 31, 2008 11:53 PM"Why is "the pregnancy" in [ ]? "
Because pro-abort journalists are stinking liars.
Posted by: Jasper at August 1, 2008 12:33 AMYou can't kill a pregnancy. A pregnancy is a state of being, not a living thing that can be killed. Pregnancy has become a way for pro-aborts to avoid even using the word fetus.
Posted by: Jacqueline at August 1, 2008 1:26 AMHi, MK, if you see this post, can you please e-mail me? and if anyone notices MK on here, can you please tell her that I'd like her to contact me on e-mail, since the message i sent her was returned. Thanks,
Much love,
Lyssie
I'm not in the medical research field but would there be a difference in techniques and equipment for Embryonic vs. Adult stem cells?
I'm wondering why they just don't shift to Adult stem cells ????
Posted by: RSD at August 1, 2008 6:47 AMThe Jackson Hole abortion provider quotes were quite illuminating.
"I could teach someone to do one in 2 days." Boas
"It’s no different from vasectomy services and no different than delivery services." Blue
I don't know of any surgery where two days of training is considered sufficient to start practicing. I have family and friends in all areas of medicine, and none of them spent only 2 days learning a particular surgical procedure.
I wonder, does a full week's training constitute extremely well-qualified credentials for opening your own hospital, according to Boas?
Posted by: Michael at August 1, 2008 6:48 AMThese are three incredible stories. I especially like the interview with prolife blogger Barbara Curtis.
...So here we were, with four kids under the age of 4 and three of them had Down syndrome. . . . Then in 2000, Catholic Charities called and asked, "Would you maybe be willing to adopt another baby?" I said, "No way. I'm exhausted, I'm 52 years old and I'm sorry."
I got off the phone, and my daughter Sophia, who was 12 at the time, had heard me. She said, "Mom, I can't believe that you would ever say no. That's not who I thought you were. And besides, we can adopt. Then we can be dirtier by the dozen." She was mixing up "Dirty Dozen" and "Cheaper by the Dozen."
Out of the mouth of babes!
Posted by: Janet at August 1, 2008 12:26 PMPlanned Parenthood is building regionalized Abortion Mega-centers spending millions of (tax-payer) dollars around the country, and gasoline prices are going up with no end in sight.
Who said God doesn't have a sense of humor? :)
Posted by: Janet at August 1, 2008 12:32 PMExcerpt from: Last of the Old Guard: Abortion providers retire in the West, leaving their posts empty
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
By Grace Hammond
Lack of medical school training
Even if medical students want to be trained in surgical abortion procedures, some have little opportunity. Between 1978 and 1995, the number of medical programs providing routine abortion training to residents dropped from 26 percent to 12 percent, according to Guttmacher data.
Way to go! :)
“Medical schools across the country just are not teaching the service, so when people are presenting at emergency rooms … they’re not providing abortion services,” said Katie Groke, a field manager at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. “They don’t know how.”
See Boas' quote below.
It is possible that surgical abortions will decrease as surgical training opportunities flounder but that medical abortions with RU-486, the so-called “abortion pill,” will increase in the future, some medical professionals said.
Medical Students for Choice was formed in the 1990s to address the dearth of training, but it has “had trouble catching on in the West,” where most doctors are “funneled” to the University of Washington Medical School to complete their residencies and where abortion training is “severely lacking,” said a member of the group.
Good for you, University of Washington Medical School!!
Officials at the medical school did not return calls for comment.
Boas is connected to the organization. “I go to these meetings that are nationwide, and you get about 12 to 15 of these kids in training,” he said. “They’re different now than we are. Most of them are girls.”
He would be happy to pass his knowledge along to another Idaho doctor.
“Hell, I could teach somebody to do one in two days,” he said. “It’s not brain surgery.”
Planned Parenthood is building regionalized Abortion Mega-centers spending millions of (tax-payer) dollars around the country, and gasoline prices are going up with no end in sight.
Who said God doesn't have a sense of humor? :)
Janet, gas prices have topped for a while, but I've often thought that if there is a sentient God or Gods, that they may have set us up with various mythologies, and are now just sitting back, watching what happens. It'd be a hoot, eh?
Posted by: Doug at August 1, 2008 2:26 PMDoug, Maybe for a given few.
Posted by: Janet at August 1, 2008 5:53 PMDoug
Posted by: mk at August 2, 2008 7:11 AMYa, for the given few Gods or the one God...
Posted by: Doug at August 5, 2008 9:10 PM