Read this article about a March 2002 Senate hearing which featured quadripegic actor Christopher Reeve.

Those who support the sanctity of life are pleased to see the ban authored by former Congressman Dave Weldon (R-FL)—renewed each year since 2004 on the Commerce, Justice and State Appropriations bill to prevent the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from issuing patents on “human organisms”—made permanent. The House of Representatives, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith, added the Weldon language into the bill to make this ban permanent, preventing the patenting of human embryos.

The idea of reprogramming an adult cell back to a pluripotent state is credited to Japanese scientist who wanted another way to get patient-specific pluripotent stem cells without creating and destroying embryos is now successful.

Today, 16 months after her stem cells restored her blood system, Alba Martinez remains cancer-free.

The direct conversion approach also avoids the need to create embryonic-like stem cells from adult stem cells because it gets to the end result of creating new cells without going through additional steps from beginning to end.

Women in underdeveloped nations are paid up to $200 dollars to carry a baby up to the optimum eight to 12 week period when the fetuses are “harvested” for their stem cells which are then sold to exclusive cosmetic clinics.

We must be ready to gently and knowledgeably inform and educate our friends and neighbors about the types of research, about why we oppose embryonic stem cell research, and why that opposition does not mean we oppose every type of stem cell research that is being performed.

Most people know that during organ transplant procedures, if the donor and recipient are not compatible the recipient's body rejects the organ. Few people realize, however, that the same incompatibility problems apply to ESCs.

Scientists have reprogramed human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo making human cloning and the destruction of human embryos to extract stem cells becomes unnecessary.

Colorado Representative wants taxpayer-funded destruction of human embryos dispite temporary injuction.

Umbilical cord blood stem cells have been used in about 6,000 transplants to treat leukemia, lymphoma, blood disorders and some genetic diseases. Scientists say they believe cord blood might soon be used to repair heart or nerve tissue damaged by strokes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases or spinal cord injuries.

An editorial in the Los Angeles-based Investor’s Business Daily magazine pointed out the abysmal failure of the California’s massive investment in research, Prop 71, that has procured no effective treatments to date.

Two teams of scientists reported in November that they turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo -- a feat that could protect human embryos and make stem cell research fully ethical.

Organizations influence our laws.

The media is so excited about the supposed potential of embryonic stem cells that it gives far too little attention to the many and serious problems associated with this potential source of regenerative medicine.

Sheila Bracken, AFL ministry partner, shares her Washington D. C. Lobby Day experience where several life issues were discussed.

The authors discuss issues on which people on either side of the stem cell debate can agree.