Embryo Adoption: A Tale of Twins

For adopted twins Meredith and Mason Bonnema, fall of 2008 represents life and a future for both. Their adoptive parents were finalizing plans to welcome them to their new family.

Meredith and Mason were too small to remember that fall, because they were both smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. They spent the first few months of their adoption in deep freeze, waiting for their chance as embryos to be implanted in their adoptive mother, Kari. Transferred the following February, Meredith and Mason were born in October 2009, about one year after being adopted. While their parents were eagerly waiting for them to become part of their family, a completely different plan was being drawn up for other frozen embryos like Meredith and Mason. Voters in Michigan narrowly approved Proposal 2 in November 2008, allowing embryos to be legally destroyed for experimentation. FULL STORY

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Banking on Cord Blood

The birth of a child is always special, but now with the donation of cord blood -- a baby's birth can also give life to others. Cord blood banks help ensure that patients suffering from a variety of blood ailments have the opportunity to receive a transplant of life-affirming stem cells from umbilical cord blood. MORE

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Fact Sheets on Stem Cell Research

Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Putting Women at Risk
Where will all the eggs come from? Using embryonic stem cells from cloned human embryos to treat a single disease would require an impossible number of reproductive-aged women to go through the onerous and sometimes dangerous process of donating their eggs. PDF

iPSC - Advances in Ethical Stem Cell Research
Proponents of human embryonic stem cell research often cite all of the potential treatments that may result from the research but fail to mention that human life is destroyed when removing these cells from a human embryo. Now researchers have pioneered a different kind of treatment that carries the same potential for treating disease... without destroying human lives. PDF

The Great Stem Cell Debate: Understanding the Basics
As the debate over stem cell research rages on, Right to Life of Michigan has put together a fact sheet discussing basic information about the issue and the difference between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells. PDF

Sacrificed Without Consent: Taking From the Unborn, Ending Lives
Since stem cells are so versatile there is hope within the medical community that some day the cells can be reprogrammed to cure various diseases. This stem cell fact sheet contains information on the potential of stem cells, stem cell research, and the current legal situation regarding embryonic stem cell research. HTML | PDF

 

Stem cell research is the most misunderstood life issue. Most people do not realize that stem cells can be obtained from numerous adult sources, umbilical cords and placentas -- without ending the life of a developing human being. Stem cells from human embryos are not needed for stem cell research to continue.

Organizations Supporting Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Listing of organizations that have expressed support for human embryonic stem cell research. Research with embryonic stem cells necessitates the destruction of human embryos.

Stem Cell Research News

Right to Life of Michigan has a special website dedicated to informing people with news about and advances and current events in the field of ethical stem cell research.

www.stemcellresearchcures.com

Talking About Stem Cells

If They Say... You Say... A prolifer's guide to talking about human embryonic stem cell research and human cloning.

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Michigan State Medical Society goes neutral on killing human embryos for research

Embryo and Fetal Research Laws in Michigan