TORONTO, May 25 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Paul Ranalli, a neurologist in the Faculty of Medicine, wrote in the University of Toronto Magazine this month questioning the use of fetal tissue for Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Ranalli explains that “the theory behind fetal transplantation is that dopamine-producing cells extracted from the brains of several aborted fetuses can be injected deep into critical brain regions of the recipient Parkinson’s disease patient, hopefully to take root and begin to produce the needed dopamine.”
“However, a series of limited, uncontrolled case reports provided little evidence of real success, despite tremendous hype that continued to capture the public imagination. Finally, a well-designed study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health revealed that the use of fetal tissue was essentially worthless.”
Dr. Ranalli criticizes the argument in favour of using fetal tissue which Michael J. Fox recently reiterated, that we shouldn’t let the tissue ” go to waste”. “It is probably not unfair to characterize this position as Pontius Pilate-like in its hand washing of any concern about the troubling source of this tissue,” said Ranalli. “One simply cannot address the subject of ill-gotten medical data without referring to the searing examples of human experimentation under the Third Reich or the Japanese cold-exposure data extracted from murderous experiments on Asian prisoners of war.”
(with files from Pro-Life E-News)