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The National Black ProLife Coalition is a network of prolife and pro-family organizations committed to restoring a culture that celebrates Life and Family cultivating Hope in the black community.

On the last day of black history month, February 28, 2011, hundreds gathered across fourteen states to mourn the loss of black lives to the abortion industry.

Led by black leaders in cities across the country, we paused to reflect upon the scourge of abortion and the lives it destroys.

Women are still dying, not as a result of a coat hanger, but at the hands of butchers called abortionists.

Women are being reproductively maimed in the name of choice, as their bowels are perforated and intestines pulled out. Hysterectomies are happening all across the nation, as the real doctors attempt to repair the damage done at the abortionist hands.

Yet, we did not hear about the Day of Mourning through the mainstream media, they blacked us out, not willing to risk shining the light on how anti-woman the abortion industry truly is.

And as has been the case for the past 38 years, we do not hear about the discriminatory impact of abortion and the fifteen hundred black babies that die in abortion dens every day.

We are striving for a world that values every human life, from conception until natural death. We will not be silent while abortion ravages, in epidemic proportions, the black community under the perverted guise of “reproductive justice.”

Contact:     1-888-619-NBPC (6272)  or  http://www.blackprolifecoalition.org/

 
Study Shows Adult Stem Cell Research Helps Type 1 Diabetics (4/07) PDF Print E-mail

Adult stem cells were able to spur prolonged insulin independence in patients. Researchers from Brazil found success with transplanting adult stem cells into patients with newly diagnosed type 1, or insulin-dependent, diabetes.

Dr. Julio C. Voltarelli, from the Regional Blood Center, said the results were "very encouraging"; it was the first time a treatment had been used in human type 1 diabetes [Reuters]. The study involved 15 diabetic patients and who had been diagnosed in the previous six weeks and required insulin. The doctors harvested the patients' own stem cells and injected them intravenously. In the follow-up, 14 of the patients became insulin free -- 1 for 35 months, 4 for at least 12 months, and 7 patients for at least 6 months. Two patients responded later to the treatments and were insulin free for one and fifteen months respectively.

The authors wrote a report on their study in the Journal of the American Medical Association's April 11 [2007] edition. “Very encouraging results were obtained in a small number of patients with early-onset disease,” the authors wrote. "Ninety-three per cent of patients achieved different periods of insulin independence and treatment-related toxicity was low, with no mortality.”

Richard Burt, a co-author of the study from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago:
“As a research scientist I am always hesitant to speak of a cure, but the initial results have been good and show the importance of conducting more trials” [London Guardian]. More testing is needed, but he's hopeful the adult stem cell studies will yield more widespread treatments. “It will probably be five to eight years before we see a treatment being widely available,” he said.
[11Apr07, LifeNews.com, DC]

 
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