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Cloudy
Jul 13 2005, 10:02 PM
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"Missouri Man Receives Stem Cells
July 8, 2005, 08:16 AM

David Landwee
David Landwee

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A Missouri man has gone from a wheelchair to walking in less than a year.

David Landwee was paralyzed from the waist down in January and confined to a wheelchair.

But now he is walking again after receiving stem cells from aborted fetuses injected into his spine.

Landwee went to China for the procedure.

He said he's getting control back in his legs and back muscles and he can even walk a little with the help of braces.

David Landwee said, "I can feel all my internal organs on the inside.  I can feel my stomach.  I actually get hunger pains that I didn't have before.  Before I used to eat because I knew I had to eat.  Now I eat because I'm hungry."

The procedure that has allowed this change is not done on humans in the U.S.

Landwee says he hopes to be walking without braces in the next eight months."
http://www.kctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3570065


Eddiejoe
Sep 20 2005, 06:00 PM
QUOTE(Cloudy @ Jul 13 2005, 10:02 PM)

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I met somebody shortly after he went to China to have the procedure done. It was about a year ago. He was still in his wheelchair, but he said that he was beginning to feel tingling in his feet for the first time since his accident. I don't know what happened since then, though.

Bush cares more about retaining power for the GOP than he does about things like this, otherwise he would have told the religious right to go pound salt on this one.
TheRestofUs
Sep 20 2005, 06:44 PM
This is an incredible story Cloudy! If only Christopher Reeves had lived long enough to benefit from this!

BTW! WELCOME BACK GIRL FRIEND!! I hope you will post more often! beer.gif
lazyboy
Sep 21 2005, 05:08 AM
From ABORTED FETUSES.........spine-chillingly horrible.

I just came back from visiting my wheelchair bound friends in the local hospital. Once I dreamt that one of them could walk again. He said 'Thank you' when I told him, but his girlfriend in a chair looked frightened. People do get used to being in a wheel chair.

But even if they didn't - this is not the way to go IMO.
lazyboy
Sep 21 2005, 05:11 AM
As long as the technology is available, there are poor people in the world with no rights, fetuses are classed as some kind of parasite, and there are rich people who will buy into this business - we will have children killed for body parts, forced to have abortions and the later the better for the pharmaceutical companies, and every other atrocity that is going on now. What has happened to the peoples' morals? The more money they have the less morals, it seems.
jeffmoskin
Sep 21 2005, 06:50 AM
QUOTE(lazyboy @ Sep 21 2005, 04:11 AM)
As long as the technology is available, there are poor people in the world with no rights, fetuses are classed as some kind of parasite, and there are rich people who will buy into this business - we will have children killed for body parts, forced to have abortions and the later the better for the pharmaceutical companies, and every other atrocity that is going on now.  What has happened to the peoples' morals?  The more money they have the less morals, it seems.
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an aborted fetus is no different from a kidney or liver from a cadaver. Parts become available because people die. Stem cells become available because people have abortions. We are not debating whether this is a good or bad decision; once it has been made, however, shall we just dump the stem cells in the can?

Or should we remake the life of a cripple?

I can't think of ANYBODY who is in favor of abortions; but banning them or banning research from their detrius is worse.
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