Stem cell research

[sunspotbaby]

good point.
I'm just frustrated that something that seems to be working already (the stem cell treatments) can't be done here in the states. My niece may already have vision if the procedure were available here.

When I had my little girl, the hospital gave me a whole pkg of information pamphlets. One of those was from a cord bank. It costs money to bank the cord blood.
Why isn't the option given to donate it for research?

 

[Lynnie]

The words required and donate do not go together. Think: confiscate. Do you really want the US government to require women to do this?

Apparently there is a tendency to believe that since Bush blocked fed funds from supporting stem cell research that the US is in stem cell dark ages. Nothing could be further from the truth. We pioneered stem cell research and by far are the leaders. The research effort has been a combination of small, pioneering private companies and universities.

You're exactly right! We are well ahead of the game in this and as long as we keep privatizing, we will always be ahead. Get the government involved and, well, BUREAUCRACY! Nothing wrong with it, but we are a free enterprise nation - or, at one time, we were.