With all of the controversy over stem cell research...?

when i was pregnant with my baby, i read about donating the placenta after your baby is born for use in stem cell research. this seemed like an excellent idea to me, and a method of doing this research that was more ethically sound. however, when i brought it up to the hospital staff at the time, they appearantly had neither the means nor the interest to take it for such a purpose. why isn't there more being done toward the movement to use placentas from live births? i do not agree with using fetal tissue in this effort, but it almost seems as though no one has heard of this alternative or is considering it. i will admit, i do not know whether, in theory, the placenta could actually be used to regenerate missing...parts or whatever. so i ask that no one make unsubstantiated claims about its worth or lack of. but i'd like to hear from people who know more on the subject than myself.

With all of the controversy over stem cell research...?
From what I could gather on wikipedia the placenta actually has some hormones in it and they are probably trying to find each of the various interactions it has between mother and child, but also possibly because it is most likely one of the first items that are created, because without it the fetus would be unable to grow to maturity.
Reply:The Controversy was months ago and served the Lies of the Demon crats. Only Small research firms are interested in it at all. They went to the Big research groups for funding and they found No merit or potential with it and so denied funding.. Then they went to the governments for funding some states said yes most said no. Then they went to the Feds and they said no and so the Demon crats used it as a way to say the republicans want people to Die or stay cripples. It was never Illegal, the feds just did not want to fund something with so little promise. Now that the demon crats are done with it you will most likely hear little unless they find a way to make some money on it.
Reply:Stem cell research is just something for people to argue about and feel important, it may help, but it shouldn't be a big deal, the truth is people don't care, they talk the talk though.
Reply:do you realize, there is no law against fetal stem cell research? and that Bush actually did fund it, at first. it was after there was some work done, with zero promising results, that he decided not to fund it anymore with taxpayer money. which is fine with me. scientists can research this all day long every day. they just won't get federal money for it, which seems to anger them. seems to be about the money, if you ask me.





adult stem cells have been used for things, and there is a list longer than my arm that they have shown promise for. FETAL stem cells, OTOH, show ZERO promise for anything. ANYTHING. i read an article around election time about a man who had been injected with fetal stem cells for his Parkinson's disease. instead of helping, the fetal stem cells began growing in his head, and he had a huge tumor in his brain as a result. they thought it was benign, but they didn't know. the problem was, it would not stop growing.





like i said, there is zero proof that fetal stem cells can do anything adult ones can't. makes one wonder why they're so desperate to get fetal ones instead.





also, they can get fetal stem cells from amniotic fluid with little danger to the baby or the mother. yet i've not heard that they are actively trying to harvest any this way. i don't know why, surely there are people who would donate it, since it wouldn't harm them and may help others. personally i would have donated my fluid or placenta but i was never told it was an option.
Reply:Unfortunately, hospitals aren't the people doing


the research. You'd need to contact a research


organization ... which means it isn't something


your going to be able to do if you only think


about it as the contractions are pulling into


4th gear!