Actually,
THIS AIN’T A BAD IDEA.
Neither is the idea of donating cord blood, as long as donor privacy is protected.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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If we knew how, we would donate “baby teeth” for the use of creating stem cells. We hear that they are “able” to do it, but we just don’t know where to send them too.
I would come closer donating the blood than creating a “bank” for future use of it. But that is just my opinion.
We tried to donate the cord blood for our 1st child, but weren’t able to because it ended up an emerengcy c-section. We’ll try again with our next one.
I’m not an overly-sensitive “the media is all bad” kind of guy, but did anyone else click on the link to read the story about the cord blood and find an advertisement from Yahoo about “gay marriage love stories”? It might be safe to say that most cord-blood-banking conscious people are on the conservative side, so I wonder if that was an attempt to present “us” with “their” viewpoint. Hmm.
Is it just me, or is every yahoo news article have an ad posted for Yahoo Supported Pro Gay Marriage stories? Its on everyone of their news stories. That is pretty sick.