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A state Senate bill calls for a program to educate expecting parents on the benefits of donating umbilical cord blood to stem cell research.
MORE PARENTS might decide to donate the stem cells from their babies' umbilical cord blood if they knew the procedure was free, easy and could save lives.
That's the aim of state Senate Bill 148, which would establish a statewide education and awareness program.
Without the bill's passage, most of the cord blood from babies born in Georgia will continue to be treated as medical waste, instead of the building blocks of a potential medical miracle.
That's the wrong way for Georgia, and the wrong way for medical research, to go. Senate Bill 148 deserves passage.
Dubbed the "Saving the Cure Act," the legislation notes that stem cell research in general has been hampered by the ethical controversy over embryonic stem cells which are presently derived in a process resulting in the destruction of the human embryo.
<a href="http://savannahnow.com/node/234297">Cord blood promises life</a> (savannahnow.com)
MORE PARENTS might decide to donate the stem cells from their babies' umbilical cord blood if they knew the procedure was free, easy and could save lives.
That's the aim of state Senate Bill 148, which would establish a statewide education and awareness program.
Without the bill's passage, most of the cord blood from babies born in Georgia will continue to be treated as medical waste, instead of the building blocks of a potential medical miracle.
That's the wrong way for Georgia, and the wrong way for medical research, to go. Senate Bill 148 deserves passage.
Dubbed the "Saving the Cure Act," the legislation notes that stem cell research in general has been hampered by the ethical controversy over embryonic stem cells which are presently derived in a process resulting in the destruction of the human embryo.
<a href="http://savannahnow.com/node/234297">Cord blood promises life</a> (savannahnow.com)
