Ukraine Babies in Stem Cell Probe

Quote:Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests.

Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them.

Ukraine has become the self-styled stem cell capital of the world.

There is a trade in stem cells from aborted foetuses, amid unproven claims they can help fight many diseases.

But now there are claims that stem cells are also being harvested from live babies.

When there's nothing "wrong" with killing them in the womb, can anyone act be surprised when someone kills them just after they've left it?

If this story is true, the slippery slope just collapsed.

The crime here is we have literally millions of these fertilized zygotes across the country in fertility clinics that will be thrown away. We could be the stem cell capital of the world and they wouldn't have to harvest babies in semi third world countries. It's a shame.

To me the crime is that this myth of miraculous cures coming from embryonic stem cells has been perpetuated to the point that this type of thing can take place.

Embryonic stem cells do show promise. The problem is the technology came on line in 98 and we've been limited in funding the research.

Machiavelli Wrote:Embryonic stem cells do show promise. The problem is the technology came on line in 98 and we've been limited in funding the research.

"Promise" is a purely subjective term. There have been no viable treatments come from embryonic stem cell research. Adult and chord stem cells however have made tremendous strides.

And many avenues show promise dogger, doesn't make them right. I watched a movie called Extreme Measures the other night with Gene Hackman and Hugh Grant. You should rent it.

And you're not going to convince me that lack of funding is the issue. If private industry saw promise in the research done to date they'd be funding it out the wazoo. The fact that they are not should be a hint that the "promise" isn't much to hang your hat on.

Regardless, false hope has been given to millions, and thanks to the myth being perpetuated things like what this article talks about will become more and more common.