The Right to Life of Michigan website, www.rtl.org, has a stem cell research section that features more information and resources on stem cell research.
Links to legislation and current proposals, contact information for donating cord blood, tips on how you can promote ethics in stem cell research and other resources can be found there.
Show Me the Treatments
See a list of ailments in human patients that have been successfully treated with adult stem cells. To date, there are NO ailments treated with human embryonic stem cells. PDF
Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Putting Women at Risk
Where will all the eggs come from? Using embryonic stem cells from cloned human embryos to treat a single disease would require an impossible number of reproductive-aged women to go through the onerous and sometimes dangerous process of donating their eggs. PDF
Fact Sheet - Advances in Ethical Stem Cell Research
Proponents of human embryonic stem cell research often cite all of the potential treatments that may result from the research but fail to mention that human life is destroyed when removing these cells from a human embryo. Now researchers have pioneered a different kind of treatment that carries the same potential for treating disease... without destroying human lives. PDF
The Embryonic Stem Cell Research Money Trail
Some embryonic stem cell researchers are interested in more than curing patients. They're interested in obtaining patents. Learn how some embryonic stem cell researchers are fighting to make big profits off of embryonic stem cells. PDF
The Great Stem Cell Debate: Understanding the Basics
As the debate over stem cells rages on, Right to Life of Michigan has put together a fact sheet discussing basic information about the issue and the difference between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells. PDF
