A stem cell researcher right here in Iowa is proving that advances in adult stem cell research are both ethical and advantageous.

 Dr. Alan Moy, MD, is founder of the John Paul II Stem Cell Research Institute (JP2SRI), which focuses on adult and cord blood research and education.  JP2SRI’s mission is to advance research and education on stem cells in a manner consistent with pro-life bioethics.

Iowa Right to Life Committee agrees that adult stem cell research is a wonderful blessing. But embryonic stem cell research is not. We fully support research using adult stem cells, which is already benefiting 73 diseases. Our opposition to embryonic stem cell research is both moral and practical. From the moral aspect, it will turn humans into a commodity that will create cloning farms to kill the embryos for research. From a practical standpoint, embryonic stem cell research is unsuccessful, curing no one--not even a mouse.

Advocates of cloning and embryonic stem cell research often try to intimidate pro-lifers by tossing around scientific terms mixed with pseudo-scientific terms. Bioethics expert, attorney and author Wesley J. Smith provides terms and definitions you should be familiar with so that does not happen.