In the past few days, we’ve barely been able to keep up with the flood of articles about the progress with adult stem cells. The headlines read like medical miracles: “Doctors transplant windpipe with woman’s own stem cells“; “Bone marrow stem cells restore hearing, vision in animals“; “Researchers to use patient’s own stem cells to treat heart failure“; and “Mother-of-two becomes first transplant patient to receive a whole organ transplant grown from her own stem cells.” And those were all articles published just THIS week! 

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Biologists at Harvard say they’ve transformed one type of fully developed adult cell into another type. They transformed adult pancreas cells into insulin producing cells in mice. Could this be a potential cure for type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes? And, could this be the death knell for embryonic stem cell research?

My Take?

LifeNews is reporting that the nation’s Catholic bishops followed through on their desire to put forward an initial statement opposing embryonic stem cell research. They voted almost unanimously — 191 to 1 — to approve the statement at their annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.

As with abortion, the statement makes it clear to Catholics and non-Catholics alike that embryonic stem cell research is immoral.