Articles
- Adult Stem Cells Found to Cure Blindness – Three Patients Cured
- by By Patrick Craine, LifeSiteNews.com
- Three paients have been cured of blindness in Australia using their own stem cells.
- Article: "Adult Stem Cell Successes"
- by Dianne Irving
- See sample of references for the successful use of adult stem cells below. To date not one patient has been helped or cured with human embryonic stem cells. Smart funding -- both public and private -- goes to successful adult stem cell research.
- Article: "Cell Wars"
- by Wesley J. Smith
- Smith challenges claims that ebryonic stem cell research is good for medical cures. He describes their complications with tissue rejection, unrealistic demands, and side-effects as compared with adult stem cells.
- Article: "Dangerous Arguments"
- by Chuck Colson
- "Is it not unethical to take a life to save a life?" Chuck Colson works through this question and Christopher Reeve's response in a Congressional Hearing in 2003.
- Article: "Dramatic Uses of Adult Stem Cells"
- by J.C. Willke, MD and Bradley Mattes
- This update on breakthroughs, treatments, and cures made possible by adult stem cells originally appeared in the Life Issues Institute, Inc. newsletter, Connector, April 2005
- Article: "Playing Politics with the Sick"
- by Leon R. Kass
- Please note: this article has a political bias intoned by the author. NOEL has chosen to post this article because it provides a summary of information about the current actions taken by the US goverment on embryonic stem cell research.
- Article: "Six Stem Cell Facts"
- by Robert P. George and Rev. Thomas V. Berg, L.C.
- This article, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal March 14, 2007 (Page A15), does an excellent job of outlining the moral and scientific issues involved in the stem cell debate.
- Article: "Spinning Cells"
- by Georgette Forney
- An informative article about cloning.
- Article: "The Big Picture"
- by Sheila Bracken
- A day lobbying in Washington, D.C. opened this young woman's eyes to much confusion in the stem cell debate. Now she wonders whose agenda--politicians, the media, or the scientific community--is leading the way and whether this will be just another opportunity to exploit women.
- Article: "The Wrong Tree: Embryonic Stem Cells Are Not All That"
- by Wesley J. Smith
- This article describes the media bias promoting embryonic stem-cell research and neglecting adult stem-cell research. It describes the health consequences of each.
- Article: "Ultimate Stem Cells: the benefits of adult stem cells"
- by Lori Mitchell
- A stem cell has been found in adults that can turn into every single tissue in the body. It might turn out to be the most important cell ever discovered
- Article: "Unborn Children May 'Cure' Mothers' Diseases via Fetal Stem Cells"
- by Steven Ertelt
- Two new studies show that embryonic stem cell research is unnecessary.
