My own topic heading reminded me of the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the U.S.S.R., now better know by its constituent parts like Russia and the Ukraine), and how (through their state-run media) they kept explaining to their people and to the world their economic failure, year after year for over 75 years, as being a result of “crop failures” and “poor weather for harvesting crops” and such. Deception worked very well for them in many ways, before President Ronald Reagan finally won the cold war and an entire nation literally collapsed as it should have.
Liberals cleverly bury the facts about stem cells and stem cell research by purposely not distinguishing between adult stem cells, which are the ones that have proven to be useful in many of today’s new drugs and life-saving, disease-treating inventions that now prolong life (and which practically nobody is ethically “against”); and “embryonic” stem cells, which have not proven to be useful in curing or treating any diseases (and which is under a massive ethical cloud as it should be, on the basis that it literally destroys human life, and could “progress” to the point where humans are literally harvested just for research and stem cells).
Liberals and their media purposely simply call it all “stem cell research”, so that embryonic stem cell research can ride on the success of adult stem cell research, and curry public support for embryonic stem cell research unwittingly. That’s what I think the deceitful liberal Michael J. Fox did in the past U.S. election, for example, and the liberal media backed him up on that deception.
But in free capitalist societies, the elixir of potential life-giving success tied with no ethical baggage helps to explain why all the smart research money has gone toward adult stem cell research and has yielded great results; and partly explains why liberals therefore demand state funding to fill the void for “embryonic” stem cell research. (I think the other reason liberals demand state-funding for it is that liberals are generally pro-abortion and adherents to the liberal-left culture of death, and they think this helps advance their causes).
But my personal interjection aside, I liked this article from this morning at Lifesite.net.
Ukraine Killing Newborns To Harvest Stem Cells Says BBC With Video Evidence
By Meg Jalsevac
KHARKIV, Ukraine, December 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ukraine has long heralded itself as a leader in modern science’s embryonic stem cell quest. BBC News reports that video footage they obtained suggests that the Ukraine is no longer meeting the demand with just embryonic stem cells but is now also killing newborn babies to harvest cells from their more developed bodies.
The Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine in Kharkov, Ukraine was founded in 1972 as a research facility in the little known field of stem-cell therapy. Techniques for freezing biological samples and cells were developed and publicized from this Institute. In the early 1990’s, researchers from Kharkov Institute, established EmCell, a stem-cell treatment center in the nation’s capital, Kiev, claiming to offer respite from numerous diseases and conditions.
Especially since the founding of EmCell, the Ukraine has been a leader in offering stem-cell therapy and supplying stem-cells to nations across the world.
Mothers who gave birth at certain Ukranian hospitals admitted that they delivered a live baby which was immediately whisked away by hospital staff. When asked about the babies, hospital staff would not answer and the hospitals in question have denied the allegations.
In 2003, a campaign to expose the barbaric practice was successful in forcing the hospital to exhume 30 bodies of dead babies. Footage from the ensuing autopsies was released to the BBC and the Council of Europe.
The BBC report tells of dismembered bodies and mature newborn bodies stripped of organs. Upon seeing the videos of the autopsies on the dead babies, a British forensic pathologist expressed concern that the tiny bodies had been dismembered. Such dismemberment is not a normal post-mortem practice and would suggest there was harvesting of stem cells from internal material such as bone marrow.As reported previously by LifeSiteNews, Ukranian women have been paid USD$180 per fetus that can be used for harvesting stem-cells for, among other things, beauty treatments in Russia. Because mature fetuses are more ‘useful’, these women are convinced by their doctors that there is medical reason to wait until after 12 weeks gestation to have an abortion.
Read Related LifeSite Coverage:
Abortion Encouraged in Ukraine as Unborn Babies Used for Russian Beauty Treatments
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/may/05052411.html
Adult stem cells are not acquired this way yet, which is to say that adults aren’t harvested like corn and then deprived of their adult stem cells. But I don’t doubt they soon will be, given the “progressive” nature and action by liberals, as exemplified above.
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