I know you are tired from yet another sleepless night, because you live the life of two, caring for a chronically ill loved one 24/7.
That is also the reason it is so easy to be deceived by the false promises of politicians like Corzine.
Check out his FULL support for human embryonic stem cell research when he ran for office: http://www.corzineforgovernor.com/...
I pledge to join Jon Corzine in working to make New Jersey the leader in embryonic stem cell research.
How easy it is to get swept up by the thought that New Jersey is funding embryonic stem cell research,..........but wait.......
New Jersey might just be using patients as props in their efforts to get tax payer funding for adult stem cell research instead.
We are very much being misled in NJ.
Since 1999, it has been my mission to make sure the promise of hESCR ( human Embryonic Stem Cell Research) is being pursued both on the federal level as well as the state level. I loved Jonathan Moreno's article titled "Hope is not Enough" and Embryonic Stem Cell Research by the numbers:
http://www.americanprogress.org/...
Since March I have been trying to alert the various hESCR organizations about how NJ puts politics before progress. New Jersey has been touting the fact that they were the first or second state to appropriate funding for hESCR, yet an examination of the actual dollars awarded to hESCR, the research that the federal government has restricted, is dismal at $600,000 out of $15 million awarded so far.
As comforting as it was to know that CA did in fact decide to put $3 billion over 10 years towards hESCR, it is discomforting to know that other blue states such as NJ will use the positive propaganda of hESCR, to get taxpayer support for a state program that unbeknown to them has had a track record of funding primarily non-embryonic stem cell research at 95%.
It is immoral for NJ to tout the promise of hESCR and then turn around and use funds that the public expects where intended for hESCR, to cultivate adult stem cell research in NJ instead.
For specifics on NJ's neglect of human embryonic stem cell research check:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
and
http://www.dailykos.com/...
It is sad to see the hypocrisy of using people like my child who is paralyzed, to get money spent for purposes other than promised.
Please help right the wrong in NJ.
Don't become complicit in the neglect of human embryonic stem cell research if you really support the research.
Some leading patient groups are even trying to make you believe that NJ is going to be doing human embryonic stem cell research, even though they know that New Jersey instead is heavily focused on umbilical cord blood stem cell research.
Please write a letter to Governor Corzine and your NJ news papers to help right the wrong in NJ.
To get a better idea of where NJ's motives really might be:
"The law providing money for the New Brunswick facility also authorized $50 million to construct stem cell research facilities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, $50 million for a biomedical research center in Camden, $10 million for research at the Garden State Cancer Center in Belleville and $10 million to do the same at the Eli Katz Umbilical Cord Blood Program in Allendale".
.......that seems to total five stem cell facilities. One in Middlesex county, two in Essex county, one in Camden county and one in Bergen county. Hey, isn’t NJ Senate president Richard Codey from Essex county?? And isn’t NJ Assembly president Joe Roberts from Camden county?? This appears to be mostly pork barrel "bring home the bacon" spending and jobs for their district.
Note: Though there is some potential that adult stem cell research will lead to scientific breakthroughs, the general consensus among researchers is that embryonic stem cells are the most versatile and therefore hold the greatest promise to derive treatments that can alleviate the suffering from spinal cord injury and a host of other debilitating and deadly medical conditions.