My back was sore, my neck ached, and I was glad of my wheelchair. My bed felt good, even if I couldn t feel ’ “ ” most of my body. After 37 years of quadriplegia, the vertebrae begin to deteriorate in the neck in increasing levels of pain. So that night, I was grateful for a productive day, peace at work and finally …. I turned the TV on PBS special called “ Miracle Cell Clock. ” an Earlier that day, ladies and advocates in their e-mails have been buzzing about it. Show Obviously, that would Recent advances in medical therapies using stem cells highlight those amazing — “ ” blank slate cells that seem to hold the key to future cures. As I lay in bed waiting to start the program, I thought about the many parents of disabled children who I knew from Joni and Friends family retreat ’. I remembered one mother who stroked while her little boy in his wheelchair, sighed; “ We pray that they one day a cure for Joey ’ find disease. God knows everything we’ve been through ’ with so many operations. My heart ached ” then. I hurt her now. I had hoped, her family was watching the PBS special, too. Soon it was on and I found myself in the stories and pictures geklebt.Ein segment I was breathless. It was found 17-year-old Laura Dominguez, the spinal cord injured paraplegic from Texas, shyly describe their struggles to their doctor. In the next scene, Dr. Carlos Lima, a surgeon in Lisbon, Portugal, had Laura in his operating room, scraping her nose stem cells from tissue and then transplanting them into her spinal cord. Later she was returned to the U.S., their first wobbly steps out of her wheelchair. With the help of parallel bars, Laura was walking. Like I said, it made me breathless — remember my injury is only a handful of higher vertebrae in the spine as Laura ’ s. For years my husband and I have supported spinal cord injury research and for the years we have heard the same story: Oh, it s ’ away over a decade. Friend, is the decade of almost here and that is good news not only for Miss Dominguez, but for many parents of children with disabilities. Real cures are happening now using adult stem cells, the miracle “ cells in the body, the researchers say, have the ability to customize and extend practical and in almost every other tissue ”. These cells are from a patient and harvested rsquo; own nasal tissue, bone marrow or dental pulp cells (stem cells are also found in umbilical cord blood). Researchers extract the cells, then coax them morph into ‘ ’ say, let s ’, healthy tissue in the damaged area of the heart. Adult stem cell therapies are in current operations or for the treatment of certain cancers, autoimmune diseases, bone abnormalities, stroke and eye disorders. Successful people have completed studies for the treatment of heart damage, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and ’. 2 And now, — spinal cord injury I wondered how the TV special highlighting other paraplegics to control the bladder and muscle restoration have recovered through operations such as Laura ’ s. 3 The next day I was anxious, back in my office come with Joni and Friends to see if the media picked up Laura ’ s history or the work of Dr. Lima. Unfortunately, I could hardly find a mention überall.Auch the newly FDA-approved human trial using adult stem cells on heart disease at the University of Texas was barely mentioned. Only four days earlier I had also read that an announcement of bone marrow stem cells had successfully regenerated liver tissue … but there was hardly one or two lines in the media. I felt frustrated and a little angry. As a person with a disability to lead an organization providing services to thousands of families affected by disability helps, I would hope that the news of this incredible breakthrough would be widely reported. I would think Time magazine headline would these wonderful progress. Why don t ’ we hear more about the medical success stories surrounding adult stem cells? The “ Other ” Stem Cell There ’ Sat simple answer to this Frage.Die media and the biotech industry have an ongoing love affair with the other “ ” stem cell. I’m talking about stem cells from human embryos that are frozen or “ ” of IVF treatments left harvested. These embryos are destroyed to extract their stem cells. Even stem cells from human cloning to be gained. There are increasing efforts to legalize the cloning of human beings to harvest their stem cells have the (Australia, France, Germany, Norway and Canada legally prohibited all forms of cloning). ’ We’ve heard only one side of the story of such celebrities as Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox and Nancy Reagan, who want to cooperate with the media and bio-tech industries, making us believe that adult stem cells is not as & , ldquo; good ” not as flexible and versatile as embryonic stem cells for the use and Forschung.Aber this is true? No one welcomes the desire to heal after a better than me, that I lived in a wheelchair for 37 years. But the late Christopher Reeve ’ the chances of a cure were more realistic with adult stem cell therapies. For each study, report he cited, perhaps, I could scores of success stories to a study of Washington Medical Center in Seattle conducted — point showed significant progress rapidly deteriorating Among 26 patients with multiple sclerosis. cultured 5 Maybe even Michael J. Fox ’ the chances of healing are promising use of adult stem cells in 2003 —, stem cells harvested from a man s brain ’ suffers from Parkinson ’ s, then and expanded to several million cells, of which 20% in dopamine-secreting neurons, which ’ back into the patient’s brain were injected matured. After a year, improve the patient s ’ Appreciation of 83%. It was a phenomenal success story, but only the “Washington Post” there was a small Erwähnung.Die New York Times — the news outlet that does not report on Cable News — on all drives. Why this neglect by the major media? I am convinced, like many Americans, that the biotech industry by the need cuttingedge therapies that have a high potential for profit, are being fueled. Innovative experiments also have the best chance of obtaining scarce research dollars. So, all the effort is concentrated on high-profile, avant-garde projects. The result is a flood of reports of embryos with the Holy Grail “ ” future cures. Never mind that the cells are from human embryonic stem cells genetically unstable, so that it is not suitable for the development of treatments for human degenerative diseases. Never mind that the Scientific American (June 2004) the persistent problem of rejection — stressed tissues of the body rejects embryonic stem cells as it would be an organ transplant. Never mind that embryonic stem cells cause tumors in the constantly Tierversuch.Und polls consistently show that most Americans are not clear with the ethical complexity of the destruction of human embryos for research. When it comes to these scarce research dollars, there is a reason for the biotech enthusiasts are loudly public financing. Since 1995 with the adoption of the “ Dickey Amendment, ” Federal law states that research involving the destruction of human embryos with taxpayer dollars ’ s (federal funding ban on state funding for the supply be embryonic stem cell research is not President Bush ’ s politics, it’s ’ the law of the country). The biotech industry and the politicians whose districts will benefit from it wants to repeal the ban. For them there is the question ’ Sat Risikomanagements.Private investors aren t ’ research on embryonic stem cells affect — most believe it is speculative science, socially and ethically complex problem. And if private investment ’ t financing the research, then my goodness — won — the government needs. As a side note, the Federal Government not science too short. Since 2000, total federal spending on research and development has increased by 44%. And what about politicians fear that the American research is falling behind Europe ’? The 19th January 2004 cover story of the plugging time for Europe, Europe’s Brain Drain “ ’ ” claims that European researchers in the United States, where research “ teeming with floods bright, young Europeans , lured by America’s ’ generous funding, better equipment and performance-oriented culture. Dr. Carlos Lima of ” Also Portugal is now closely with researchers in Michigan, Alabama and Texas. Human Dignity at Stake But still, I don t think we ’ ’ the reason why biotech enthusiasts are going to affect human embryos for experimentation habe.Wir live in a world where life is devalued. Life can be copied, modified, terminated, euthanasia, cloning and genetically manipulated. When it comes to the fight over whether human embryos should be used for experiments, we are touching the apple of God’s eye ’. Thou shalt not kill “, ” He says in Exodus 20:13. Human dignity and respect for life — all life, no matter how small — is at stake (Gen. 1:27). We are not fighting against the media, the biotechnology industry and pharmaceutical companies, in this battle that we too are struggling against the spiritual forces of darkness and principalities. Scripture calls our adversary the devil, a liar, murderer and an accuser of the brethren (John 8:44, Rev. 12:10). It lies in the fact that he pushes the premise that a tiny clump of cells in a “ Petrie dish ” ISN ’ worthy moral respect and legal guarantees t. He is a murderer, that he supports the destruction of human embryos in the Stammzellforschung.Schließlich he is an accuser of the brethren, that he slandered Christians accuse the life of caring more “ zygotes as real people with heart-breaking diseases & rdquo ; estimate. The enemy throws Christians that do not work only to protect life and promote human dignity, but also who want to hear the truth, are: adult stem cells are the fastest, safest and cheapest way to ethical and genuine healing. On Joni and Friends International Disability Center, and our Christian Institute on Disability, we understand there is a moral battle. It ’ Sat battle on what people believe, focuses on the human embryo. We believe that all exercise of medical progress is a reflection of someone’s ’ is morality, and as a disabled person whose rights in a society that devalues life at risk, I don t want the media ’ , politicians, celebrities, pharmaceutical companies and the biotech industry need the moral attitude of Tagesordnung.Wir wise guide to the ethical framework for this “ Brave New World to lay; ” Leaders in Science, the respect to have for life, to improve strength of character and a commitment to our culture, not diminish. No matter how small … personhood begins at conception. Many in the stem cell debate argue that an embryo is not a human person until it is ‘ ’ from the uterus, while others that it is not a human person until it argued in the ‘ uterus. ’ My friend, Christopher Hook of the Mayo Clinic, states, “ These arguments on an individual’s location-based ’ are feeble attempts to deny what the scientists accepted for many generations: humanhood begins with the Union of the 23 chromosomes from the egg and 23 chromosomes from the sperm. ” 8 Verhey professor of Hope College in Holland, Michigan sees a parallel between the parable of the Good Samaritan and the debate about the personality. “ The questions ‘ Who is a person? And ’ ‘ Who is a neighbor? ’ Both have the same goal — to find out where to end our moral duties and responsibilities. Jesus doesn t ’ be a number of criteria to define who is a neighbor — in the same way, we can t invent ‘ ’ ’ to define a set of criteria who is a person. ” 9 Whether or not you believe the soul lives in a tiny human embryo — ’ I m convinced that it is not — almost incidental. The fact is, it s ’ human. It s not ’ a goat or a rat or a chicken embryo. It is human and every one of us began our journey on this planet as one of those embryos. Life, even that small, all the legal and moral protection that every human life enjoys owed. It could be said to be discarded “ But this human embryos frozen or go to IVF treatments are anyway sterben.Doesn ’ t redeem it at least ‘ ’ its destruction, some of them use for research? ” Such “ end justifies the means ” argument sounds acceptable, but is it? Condemned to die anyway. Why don t we go ahead and take ’ their life-sustaining organs? (The infamous Dr. Jack Kevorkian actually thought that was a great idea!). Despite the fact that there would be a heartbreaking shortage of organs, most will find this proposal repugnant. It s ’ wrong to kill people for their body parts, even if they die “ anyway. ” ’ It is wrong, a human being no matter how small — — to destroy another advantage. In this debate, let’s err ’ on the side of caution — on the side of life instead — fools are rushing in awkward confrontation with the nature of human origins! Let s ’ insist that the sanctity of life is — on quality of life preferred that divine values in law and politics instead of the secular values enshrined receive. Getting the word we need the word out. Laura Dominguez has heard the word, and so they have that have benefited hundreds of adult stem cell therapies. It s ’ part of what we do on — Joni and Friends International Disability Center We encourage the life and the facts! If the national goal is to find cures quickly, the development of therapies using adult stem cells is our best bet. In fact, many researchers believe that neo-natal stem cells (derived stem cells from cord blood and placenta after the birth of a baby) hold even more promise than adult stem cells. Scientists are amazed that cells derived from cord blood have been found stem cells to 90% effective in curing “ ” sickle cell anemia. There is also clinical evidence that cord blood stem cells can replace cells, brain, bone, liver, heart and spinal cord can be distinguished. 10 Bipartisan legislation introduced in Congress to set up a national cord blood stem cell bank network “ ” (Senate Bill S1717 and House Bill-HR2852). Of the three types of embryonic stem cells —, adult and neo-natal — ’ let s invest time, focus and funding in research, not only in harmony with all life, but offers real cure for many diseases just jetzt.Doug Mazza, president of Joni and Friends, has stated “ ’ It is one of the biggest challenges for us as Christians. I don t ’ think we have made so much from the questions, as we have our own character. When it comes to the protection of human life and the promotion of ethical research, is our struggle, on the misconception that we never make a difference ‘ move. ’ ” spiritual powers and dark powers would be pleased to convince us that the world as well come to hell in a hand basket, as the tide is against us “, ” So why try? No one is more qualified to battle than to fight you. Share your ideas in the marketplace of life, especially among professionals — — does matter. You can in fluence Society, and thus build our culture of death. Seventeen-year-old Laura Dominguez does it. Remove from the Internet counseing helfen.Während I write this, she and two other spinal paraplegia prepare before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on behalf of a bill co-sponsored by Senator Brownback, which would ultimately ban embryonic stem cell research on human cloning testify and injured more funding for research using adult stem cells. If Miss Dominguez speaking from her wheelchair, we can too. Joni Eareckson Tada is the founder and president of Joni and Friends, an organization accelerating Christian ministry in the disability community. A diving accident in 1967, she left a quadriplegic in a wheelchair. In 2004, Joni and Friends broke ground for its new International Disability Center, which represents a new communications center and training facility for international partnerships are available. She is a frequent speaker around the world conference and the author of more than 30 books.
