Shortly after our newest granddaughter was born two weeks ago, I watched as one of the delivery room nurses withdrew four vials of cord blood from the severed umbilical cord. In the midst of the post-birth excitement, she and I spoke briefly of the value of those cord blood vials to stem cell research.
With the news that researchers are finding yet another disease cord blood stem cells may potentially help, that fresh experience replayed in my mind this morning. Researchers now believe umbilical cord blood stem cells may be instrumental in finding a cure for victims of Alzheimer's disease. That's added to a growing list of other cures researchers are finding with cord blood stem cells.
Is it possible that we're seeing a dramatic shift in appreciation towards innocent newborns? For the last 35 years, 40 million preborn babies' lives abruptly ended because they were considered burdens to society, whose fates should be decided by their mothers alone.
How ironic and God-like that the very connection and source of nutrition between those pre-borns and their mothers may have all along been the very source that would eliminate numerous ills -- ills of a society that selfishly and foolishly rejected their own potential remedy.
Something to think about . . .
