Another Stem Cell Breakthrough You Won't Hear About

Guess what? Scientists have discovered another alternative to human embryonic stem cells - the magic elixer snake oil of the twenty-first century - that can be extracted without disturbing a single DNA strand on a single human embryo's, um, head:

Scientists say they have discovered a new source of stem cells that could one day repair damaged human organs. The Harvard University team say they have recovered functioning stem cells from amniotic fluid - the liquid that surrounds the baby in the womb. ...

The Harvard scientists say the stem cells they found in amniotic fluid seem to have many of the qualities of embryonic stem cells. The scientists, from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, were writing in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

They say they have managed to turn the stem cells into functioning muscle, fat, blood vessel, nerve and liver cells. In tests, these newly made cells seemed to restore some function in brain-damaged mice.

Cap'n Ed appears to believe that this discovery should end the whole embryonic stem cell controversy. And perhaps it might if the controversy were rational and practical - i.e., if embryonic stem cells really were of any medical benefit and there were not other kinds of stem cells that actually have produced successful therapies and treatments.

But embryonic stem cells are not about medicine, not about healing, not about anything noble, uplifting, or anything remotely hippocratic; they're about morally enshrining the destruction of unborn human life behind an impregnable public relations deflector shield. The Death Cult was inexorably losing the PR battle in the abortion debate because they couldn't pass off selfishness and irresponsibility under the "choice" canard indefinitely. So they cannily introduced the concept of selling the unborn (at whatever stage of gestation) as the source of miracle "cures" for maladies suffered by the born. Hence the drive for fetal tissue harvesting to treat neurological disorders like Parkinson's disease, and as biotech has advanced, the tiresome embryonic stem cell hoax.

How many people know that adult stem cells have led to the development of over eighty different medical treatments? Or that adult stem cells are every bit as "flexible" as their embryonic counterparts are billed to be? And without the deleterious side effects the latter often create? This breakthrough in adult stem cell research from two years ago was going to "render the debate over embryonic stem cell research moot." Didja see this reported anywhere in the Enemy Media? No, what they gave us was Michael J. Fox and his despicable pro-embryonic stem cell/pro-Donk ads smearing Jim Talent and George Allen and Michael Steele for their ethical, rational opposition not to ALL stem cell research, but merely to the subset of it that destroys human life without any of the promised bonanza of medical advances.

And the ads worked, didn't they? So why in the world would anybody suppose that this Harvard discovery won't be buried six feet deep as well?

The point of embryonic stem cell research is to end lives, not save them. And, of course, to serve as a propaganda bludgeon to keep Republicans from ever again regaining power. Nothing that can interfere with that agenda in the slightest can be allowed any publicity, or even to survive.

Hope that Harvard/Wake Forest team isn't expecting any Nobel prizes out of their efforts - or more funding, or even continued gainful employment. The (metaphorical?) Reaper may well be coming for them next.