The Deception over Embryonic Stem Cell Research

This is a current testimony of Dr. Kelly Hollowell from a few months ago... Note the statement where she says no human trials for ESC (Embryonic Stem Cells) exist. I had read (elsewhere) that one of the problems in the trials in mice and rats was that they were producing a great deal of cancer and cell abnormalities in the results, so of course we would hope they wouldn't have moved on to actual human trials with those kind of results.. thank God for that, at least.

Dr. Hollowell's Testimony Before Virginia Senate Panel

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On February 3, Dr. Kelly Hollowell, senior strategist for the Center for Reclaiming America, testified in front of the Virginia Senate Committee on Education and Health, urging the senators to bar state funds from being used to experiment on human embryonic stem cells. Five days later, the Virginia Senate voted 23-17 to do exactly that!...

Current or potential use of embryonic stem cells:

First, allow me to make clear that there are no currently approved treatments using ESCs. Nor do human trials involving ESCs exist. Even success in animal models is modest and rare. What’s more, experts predict a minimum 10 years before any treatments using ESCs might be available. In fact, little more than discouraging, if not frightening, drawbacks exist to this research, all of which are well-documented in peer reviewed scientific journals.

* Other articles...

Frist decision “morally misguided” and “blow to pro-life cause”

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Dr. Kelly Hollowell, the Center’s Senior Strategic Analyst reports that while embryonic stem cells ‘have not cured a single lab rat,’ adult stem cells have treated over 58 diseases in human patients, including Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injuries, and juvenile diabetes. A listing of current applications of adult stem cells with research journal citations is located at http://www.reclaimamerica.org/download/StemCellFacts.pdf

“According to Dr. Hollowell, who holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, ‘embryonic stem cell research is unsafe, unethical, scientifically unproven, and unnecessary, in light of advances using adult stem cells.’”