Scientists think there's an evolutionary mechanism whereby the baby assists in protecting the mother's heart during and after pregnancy. Editor’s note. This comes from our friends at SPUC--the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. This popular meme suggests...
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To pro-abortionists, the unpardonable sin: conceding fetal tissue harvesting is “antiquated” and not cutting edge research
By Dave Andrusko I thought there was nothing pro-abortionists could write that could really surprise me. Wrong. National Public Radio--NPR--was on the receiving end of a thorough chastisement yesterday from Jodi Jacobson, editor in chief of the pro-abortion site...
A “More Fetally Aware Society”
By Dave Andrusko The beauty of the web is that one thing leads to another to another with often times fascinating results. Such is what happened yesterday, as I was trolling for information to reply to a friend. I ran across a 2001 piece written by the late Robin...
Medical first as toddler receives lifesaving windpipe transplant made from stem cells from her own bone marrow
By Dave Andrusko “Groundbreaking” is often overused in describing advances in medical treatments, but the surgical creation of a windpipe for a little girl born without one certain merits the superlative. Hannah Warren, now 2 ½, was born without a trachea, a condition...
Teaching Stem Cell Scientists How to Hype
By Wesley J. Smith Never has so much hype been shoveled than the CURES! CURES! CURES! propaganda that sold embryonic stem cell research to the American public. That hasn’t worked out so well in actual practice, but the white elephant that is the California Institute...
Adult stem cell transplant improves motor functions in monkeys suffering from Parkinson’s Disease
By Dave Andrusko The improvement was called “a small but hopeful step,” but had the improvement in monkeys with Parkinson’s been the result of the infusion of embryonic stem cells rather than adult stem cells, it would been trumpeted all over the front pages of the...
Paralyzed Dogs Walk Again
By Wesley J. Smith This technique has been already shown great hope in humans, but not nearly so dramatically as what has now happened with dogs in the UK. Adult stem cells taken from dogs’ own noses have restored mobility in animals with long term spinal cord injury....
Another Korean Stem Cell Study Scandal
By Wesley J. Smith At the height of the great Embryonic Stem Cell Hype, Hwang Woo-suk fraudulently claimed to have created human cloned embryos and derived stem cells there from. He paid a price in reputation but not his freedom, despite obtaining research grants...
“60 Minutes” Investigation of Sham Stem Cell Therapies
By Dave Andrusko Perhaps after you watched Tim Tebow and the Broncos defeat the Steelers last night, you stuck around to watch “60 Minutes” investigative report of “Stem Cell Fraud” It was well done, and in conjunction with a brief follow up today on “CBS This...
A Three-Part Smorgasbord to end the day
By Dave Andrusko It’s already Thursday, meaning there is only one day left in the week to talk about stories that are important to pro-lifers. Let me quickly summarize three stories, lest they get lost in the shuffle. The Michigan Blood Cord Blood Bank in Northeast...