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=Spread the word about the future cure.= By Aedan L. Period 1

For more information of the basics of stem cells visit the NIH Stem Cell Page.

//"Every family knows they are one phone call or one diagnosis away from needing what stem cell research can yield for us."// Speaker Nancy Pelosi U.S. House of Representatives

=__The Facts About Stem Cells__=
 * 1) Stem cells have allowed paraplegics to regain feeling in their paralyzed limbs and even walk with some assisstance.
 * 2) At the Scripps Research Institute, researchers have created live mice from mice stem cells.
 * 3) In multiple labs, researchers have turned normal adult skin cells into stem cells.
 * 4) Stem cell transplants may allow organ recipients to skip a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs.
 * 5) In an economic recession, stem cell research would create jobs for many people.
 * 6) President Obama lifted the ban on federal funding of stem cell research on March 9, 2009.
 * 7) Stem cells are unspecialized and become any type of specialized cell.

=__The Solutions__=
 * Find an alternative to embryonic stem cells: By sending certain signals to adult skin cells, scientists have been able to change them into a state almost identical to embryonic stem cell. The same process then turns them into a kind of specialized cell.
 * Provide more government funding of stem cell research: Obama lifted the ban on federally funded stem cell research on March 9, 2009 and on April 29, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned a lower court desicion that stopped the federal funding of stem cell research.
 * Spread the word: make other people aware of this breakthrough in medical science. It could be the cure for many diseases.

=__The Argument Against It__=
 * Stem cell research is not moral: Stem cell research results in the destruction of human embryos, so if life begins at conception, stem cell research means killing someone to help another.(Note:Many of these embryos are lab fertilized or left over from abortion clinics)

= = Please visit the images and videos page to see some helpful drawings, videos and photographs. Or see my photo essay on stem cell research