| Well, I haven't done much research on it, but the ratio of usable cells in the rest of the body compared to the umbilical cord HAS to be about 10,000 to 1 to make it not feasable. RIght now, they are mired in legal battles, moral issues and how many umbilical cords get "tossed" each day? I'd say however many babies are born each day, wouldn't you? (unless people are weird and want to hold on to that stuff). So they must be pretty useless to be pushing for such a controversial alternative.
The other thing I wanted to say was that, since abortion is legal at this point, why not allow stem cell extraction from that fetus? I mean, it sounds harsh but it's just getting tossed anyway and it's going to be aborted whether right to lifers want it to or not. You may as well get something good from it. Especially with all the benefits that seem to be possible with this research. |