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THIS OPEN LETTER ON STEM CELL THERAPY WAS SENT IN BY ONE OF OUR READERS. HE HAS KINDLY GIVEN ME PERMISSION TO POST IT HERE. INSTEAD OF OPENING MY BIG MOUTH TODAY, I WILL LET THE LETTER SPEAK FOR ITSELF.

I am not a scientist. I am a High School English teacher. Every statement in this letter is based on research that I found in news articles, internet web sites, and science and medical journals. Anyone who has access to the internet can learn what I have learned.

I have been a quadriplegic for fourteen years. I was a healthy, athletic seventeen-year-old when I became injured and confined to a wheelchair. I would love to walk again. I fully believe that a cure for spinal cord injuries will occur in my lifetime. Over the last few years, there have been many promising advances in stem cell research. Stem cells have the amazing ability to become any cell in the body and thus are capable of “repairing the damage done by numerous diseases and conditions. Stem cells are found in both the cells of adults and of embryos. Debate over which source to use for stem cells has been very heated. Recently, there has been a great media push for the United States government to overturn its ban on funding research that destroys human embryos by experimenting on stem cells. As of this moment, though, the research that exists makes it clear that it is unnecessary to continue experimenting on the stem cells taken from human embryos.

First of all, evidence supports that adult stem cells hold many advantages over embryonic stem cells. For example, embryonic stem cells have a much higher risk of becoming a tumor in the patient.[i] Also, by using a patient's own stem cells rather than injecting foreign stem cells, there will be no transplant rejection.[ii] And third, various experiments using both adult and embryonic stem cells found that adult stem cells achieved greater results.[iii]