Beware of Petition Circulators

David M.'s experience:

Recently, as I was taking a walk to my local library in Grand Rapids, I was approached by two women who asked if I would sign their petition. “Petition for what?,” I asked. “Stem cell research,” they responded. When I asked “what kind of stem cell research?,” I was shown a copy of a Grand Rapids Press article on Kadi DeHaan, a young woman who suffered a spinal cord injury. I was told by the women collecting signatures that embryonic stem cells were used to treat her. THAT'S A LIE. I’m familiar with Kadi’s story and I knew her improvement was due to strenuous physical therapy along with trips to Russia for injections of her own adult stem cells, not embryonic. Embryonic stem cells have never successfully been used to treat any human patient.

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