Michael Fumento: Stance on stem-cell use a sham | The Arizona Daily Star

Michael Fumento: Stance on stem-cell use a sham | The Arizona Daily Star

"Far from blocking federal cell research funding, Bush specifically authorized it so long as it used existing lines of embryonic cells.

But more remarkably, RR Jr. made absolutely no reference to an alternative to embryonic stem cells that is decades more advanced and carries absolutely no moral baggage.

Adult stem cells can be extracted from various places in the human body as well as blood in umbilical cords and placentas. They were first used to treat human illness in 1957.

By the 1980s, adult cells were literally curing a variety of cancers and other diseases; embryonic cells have never been tested on a human.

Adult stem cells now treat about 80 different diseases; again, embryonic cells have treated no one."