Looks like House Republicans are down another vote.

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    10 months ago

    I know it’s kind of ironic, but in this case it’s more specifically an autologous stem cell transplant. That’s where they take progenitor cells that become blood cells from your bloodstream, then give powerful chemotherapy that destroy any blood progenitor cells remaining in your body (to also kill the blood cancer cells). Then they repopulate you with your own stem cells they originally harvested (so you can, you know, make more blood again). So no fetal stem cells involved in this treatment. It’s a pretty intense treatment though with a mortality risk. Most commonly people are in the hospital for quite a while for this.

    I’m sure many opponents of embryonic stem cell research have benefited from results of that research even if they don’t realize though.