Ethan Ruby: Prime Cells - The Future of Healing
Stem Cells (We should call them the Primary Cells or Prime Cells) are the future of medicine. Doctors and scientist all over the world agree with the basic medical facts that Prime Cells are the fundamental building blocks of cellular life. We have an opportunity to use this discovery to help millions of people afflicted with potentially curable diseases. As with all things that concern our individual bodies, we should have personal choices and control over what happens to us. We may choose to die from treatable illnesses, choose to wither away from degenerative diseases, choose to live in pain or with blindness, or choose to be compromised by countless other physical conditions - this may be what you choose as your destiny, for whatever reason. But other opportunity and choices exists for those who are not willing to sit back and accept that their diagnoses are death sentences. One should be able to choose to be treated and cured. We should have the right to choose to develop medicine and protocols so that our children and grandchildren can be spared pain, disfigurement, or even death. There are treatments and cures that are possible, based on the basic cellular functions that already sustain and support our bodily functions. Without using these curative scientific approaches that exist, our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, wives, husbands and friends will continue to live with devastating conditions that are directly treatable through Stem Cell therapy.
In addition to the emotional anguish associated with preventing Stem Cell therapies, there exist great financial stresses. If we continue to inadequately treat, or in some cases ignore, these conditions, as opposed to curing them, health care costs will continue to rise. Health insurance companies, and our government, will spend billions of dollars superficially and ineffectively addressing medical problems that could be cured or prevented using Stem Cells. These costs will no doubt be passed on to the general population through higher taxes and increased health care premiums. Without Stem Cell therapies, those of us who suffer from treatable conditions will suffer, and those trying to care for us will waste billions in the process. This is our future and these are our bodies and those of our loved ones. We must find a way for our disenfranchised voices to be heard. Those opposed to Stem Cell therapies have motives that must be exposed and their inaccurate interpretations of the facts need to be publicly exposed. False information can be countered with scientific data and medical facts: one of these is that Stem Cells, our Primary Cells, can and will save lives.
At one point in time people believed the earth was flat and that it was center of the universe. Science came to the rescue then, and should heed the call again now to prove what the the majority of Americans already know and support. This majority needs to unify and become a powerful force, spreading our message, educating the masses, and joining together in the fight against those in power who are acting irrationally and using false information to stop stem cell therapies. Our voices need to be heard.
A Universal symbol in support of Prime Cells would be a powerful tool to unify, amplify and intensify the public majority’s belief in Stem Cell therapy. Creating an easily recognizable symbol will help educate our communities, healthcare practitioners and their patients, and spread the message that the future holds possible cures and helpful treatments for conditions previously believed to be terminal. The dedicated scientists involved are tirelessly searching for the best and most effective medical approaches to treat almost all physical conditions. Forming a universal symbol for saving lives using Stem Cells will create the momentum needed to educate the public about the scientifically backed facts about Prime Cells. Once there is a strong, unified public voice, armed with facts and passion, we can begin to make a difference at a grass roots levels, beginning in our communities, reaching out to our government representatives. This is how changes in government are made, but we need to take the first step in joining people together and raising awareness. A recognizable pro-Stem Cell symbol will begin this process.
People are preaching false information everyday about Stem Cells. We hear it on TV and through other mediums and we believe it; we take it at face value because it is spoken by someone we are supposed to trust. False information can be very dangerous when it is spoken by influential people. But the truth regarding Prime Cells is available, and it is not a mystery. Lets get together and organize ourselves. We are the majority. We have the power to let truth and the future of medicine move forward.
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THE IRONY OF BUSH VETO ON STEMCELL RESEARCH
By Michael Townes Watson
As Bush rendered his tortured logic about his veto of stem-cell research, he made the statement that human beings have “matchless value.” So, does that mean that the blastocysts that are produced in the fertility clinics have no value and should be thrown away, rather than used for research that will save millions of lives otherwise lost to diabetes, or enable thousands of crippled children to walk? Does the “matchless value” of human life explain why Bush wants the Senate to pass his legislation–putting a limit on damages for the death of human being at the hands of a negligent hospital to a real cap of $75,000?
Bush rouses his right wing with declarations that the “embryos” will become people who should “grow up in a loving family.” But when a child is brain-damaged at birth by a negligent doctor, that child will never know the love of his loving family, yet he is giving up the right to grow up in a loving family for a payment of $75,000. Say nothing less of the families of Iraq torn apart by the three-year violence that has cost, by most estimates, tens of thousands of lives.
He says that doctors and hospitals, if they are subject to the justice system, will be stifled in their creativity. We would be getting in the way of the good things doctors do. Yet he laments “what is lost when an embryo is destroyed in the name of research.” We should “never abandon our fundamental morals,” he says, but he fails to see the immorality in the fact that 190,000 people in this country are killed every year by avoidable hospital errors. Nothing is being done about that–the very definition of immorality. Can we rationalize away the morality of millions not even going to the doctor because they can’t afford it and have no health insurance?
He uses babies as photo background while giving his speech about stem-cell research, yet he never sees the babies that end up for months in incubators, and spend their lives unable to sit or stand because they were released from the hospital within 24 hours of birth, at the insistence of their insurance company. “Effective medical science can also be ethical,” he proclaims. We have been trying to tell him that, so why does he only hear it when it makes his political base happy?
Since human beings are not “spare parts” or “raw material,” to use your words, Mr. President, why do you want the killing or maiming of those human beings to be rewarded by our justice system looking the other way, not vigorously defending those human beings and championing their right to life? You champion the rights of microscopic cells (you characterize them as embryos to pander and inflame) but not those of the living, breathing humans with fully developed brains, emotions, hearts, lungs and limbs.
We ought to “aim not to destroy human life.” How right you are, Mr. President. So why, when we fall short of that aim by so many hundreds of thousands of lives, do we allow the victims of this tragedy to be left holding the bag of disability and impairment, while the perpetrators of the tragedy continue to inflict harm? Why do you say you are “not going to allow” Congress to fund the destruction of human life, yet you express disappointment when Congressional members of your party vote to allow healthcare providers to go scott-free when they destroy human lives?
“Science should serve the cause of humanity,” as you say your conscience demands. “We are all created equal, and endowed by our creator with the right to life.” But when this right is taken away by medical mistakes, you want to blame the victims and their loved ones who seek justice from the legal system.
Smart people take consistent positions with a backbone because they have the inner strength and soul to understand why they have those positions. Other people take positions because they fit the expedient needs of the moment. Mr. President, you are one of those “other people.” Michael Townes Watson, author of America's Tunnel Vision--How Insurance Company's Propaganda Is Corrupting Medicine and Law. . www.StopMedicalError.com
Posted by Michael Townes Watson | August 31, 2006 6:18 PM