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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 14 Jan 2008 AD #3

*From ALL Newsletter:

*/Children of God for Life/*

Debi Vinnedge, founder and director of COG for Life, reports that a 
recent stem cell breakthrough that turns adult skin cells into 
"embryonic" stem cells is not as pro-life as was first thought. In fact, 
pro-lifers may have celebrated too soon because they did not examine the 
methods used more closely.

 

It turns out that both Dr. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan, 
whose study was published in the journal /Cell,/ and Dr. James Thomson 
of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, whose study was published in 
the journal /Science/, used several versions of the 293 aborted fetal 
cell lines to modify the DNA of the host adult skin cells in order to 
accomplish the cell reprogramming.

 

Further, Dr. Theresa Deisher, research and development director at Ave 
Maria Biotechnology Company, a research firm dedicated to finding 
pro-life alternatives for unethical human therapeutics, states that it 
is not necessary to use aborted fetal cells to produce the reprogrammed 
stem cells.

 

Read the COG for Life press release at http://www.cogforlife.org/.

 

Read Dr. Deisher's editorial "Why are We Celebrating the Reprogramming 
of Adult Cells?" at www.cogforlife.org/reprogramandethics.htm 
<http://www.cogforlife.org/reprogramandethics.htm>.

 

Read Dr. Yamanaka's study at 
http://images.cell.com/images/Edimages.Cell/IEPs/36 61.pdf 
<http://images.cell.com/images/Edimages.Cell/IEPs/36%2061.pdf>.

 

Read Dr. Thomson's study at 
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/11515 26 
<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/11515%2026>.

 

See also http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2008/jan/08010803.html.//

 

 

*/Pharmacists for Life International/*

PFLI's president, Karen Brauer, MS, RPh, recently testified before the 
Indiana State Senate panel that affirmed pharmacists' rights of 
conscience. Read news coverage at 
www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080110/NEWS07/801100315/1002/LOCAL 
<http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080110/NEWS07/801100315/1002/LOCAL>

 

Additionally, a recent /New American/ article entitled "Growing Debate 
over Abortifacients" included references to Bo Kuhar, PharmD, executive 
director of Pharmacists for Life International, and Bo's book, /Infant 
Homicides through Contraception./ Read the article at

http://www.thenewamerican.com/node/6794#SlideFrame_1.



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