The following comes from a June 22 story on LifeNews.
Hockey legend Gordie Howe was in the headlines this year for his remarkable recovery from a stroke after a stem cell treatment in Tijuana, Mexico. Initially the reports indicated that Howe was treated with “adult” stem cells, and so the implication was that his treatment was non-controversial. But Brent Schrotenboer, of USA Today, reported last month that Howe’s treatment included stem cells derived from an aborted fetus.
Stemedica, a San Diego company that provides the stem cell treatment to clinics like the one in Mexico, combines two types of stem cells — meshenchymal stem cells from an adult donor and neural stem cells from a 14 to 16 week old aborted fetus. Stemedica claims that fetal stem cells are “adult” stem cells because they behave more like true adult stem cells than embryonic stem cells.
USA Today reports:
The company, Stemedica Cell Technologies of San Diego, says calling them “adult” stem cells is scientifically correct because they are considered more mature stem cells with a specialized function, as opposed to embryonic stem cells, which are more akin to “blank slate” cells that are considered riskier and more likely to cause tumors….
“We don’t use the word fetal too much,” said Maynard Howe, Stemedica’s CEO, who is no relation to Gordie Howe. “We just don’t want to get people confused about what it is. They’re really considered legally adult stem cells even if they’re fetal-derived….”
“They’re really considered legally adult stem cells even if they’re fetal-derived….”
Ah yes, as long as they are ‘legal’, then that always makes everything okay!
Satan’s double-speak; sounds like Bill Clinton and the “depends on what is, is” type of analysis. The point is, fetal stem cells — tissue from murdered pre-borns — was used. That should be enough for any Catholic to attack this procedure. What dopes.
It sounds like we either need some lawyers to sue for misrepresenting a product or we need to change the name from “fetal stem cells” to “abortion derived stem cells.”