Stem cells bring back feeling for paralysed patients - health - 03 September 2012 - New Scientist Amazing potential, here. Hard to imagine a world where spinal injuries are no longer life sentences. Can we lift Bush's superstitious ban yet, or shall we just take a back seat to the rest of the civilized world?
But it has only brought Feeling, it says nothing about usage. What if the feelings they get start bringing back pain? What would happen then?
I take it the stem cells come from aborted fetuses? I skimmed the article and didn't find that answer.
*Only* feeling? Be numb for awhile and then get back to me. As far as pain or not, just feeling pain wouldn't be true feeling, and that happens with paralysis/missing limbs sometimes naturally as I understand it.
Donated fetal brain tissue. Doesn't say whether the fetuses are aborted or not. Mostly because it is pretty irrelevant.
If the only sensation they can feel is "pain" then the solution is simple; stop treatment. We will never know without trying.
How exactly is it irrelevant? I'd love for my dad to have feeling on the left side of his body again, or better yet be able to walk again, or be able to play golf with him one more time, or throw a football with him again. You get the point. However, I wouldn't want that at the cost of growing fetuses aborted. I think my father would say the same.
So it would be ok if the area that recovered feeling suddenly caused the person more pain? Not sure if I understand here. Why cause the possibility of more suffering.
I don't think that is really an issue. Obviously this isn't a viable treatment presently and won't be classified as such unless some actual movement is observed and can be predictably repeated.
One would think that the feeling of pain is part of the process towards developing the science to provide for mobility and use of limbs. I also have no problem with any type of fetuses being used for research and scientific advancement.
It's my best chance to beat MS. Yes, drug treatments have helped alleviate symptoms, but the underlying cause is still there. I could wake up in the morning and my immune system could be making swiss cheese out of the myelin sheaths in my brain and spinal chord. Morally, one can't be pro-invetro fertilization and anti-destroying fetues. It's untenable because there's not just one embryo created and not all are implanted. Guess what happens to the rest? Some are donated to infertile folks. Many are simply poured down a drain. Which is moral: disposing human embryos in the city wastewater treatment facility or allowing those that would be discarded anyway to be used to alleviate human suffering? I know which one I'm at peace with. No need to "create" embryos for stem cell treatments.
You sir are a heretic. The mere fact you don't know that Gawd's plan is that we are all subservient to the fetus means you are awful.
