Story here from CBS News. (H/T Hot Air via ECM)
Excerpt:
A few months ago, Dr. Thomas Einhorn was treating a patient with a broken ankle that wouldn’t heal, even with multiple surgeries. So he sought help from the man’s own body.
Einhorn drew bone marrow from the man’s pelvic bone with a needle, condensed it to about four teaspoons of rich red liquid, and injected that into his ankle.
Four months later the ankle was healed. Einhorn, chairman of orthopedic surgery at Boston University Medical Center, credits “adult” stem cells in the marrow injection. He tried it because of published research from France.
Einhorn’s experience isn’t a rigorous study. But it’s an example of many innovative therapies doctors are studying with adult stem cells. Those are stem cells typically taken from bone marrow and blood – not embryos.
For all the emotional debate that began about a decade ago on allowing the use of embryonic stem cells, it’s adult stem cells that are in human testing today. An extensive review of stem cell projects and interviews with two dozen experts reveal a wide range of potential treatments.
This is important because embryonic stem cell research involves the destruction of human beings. Real little people that would grow up just like you and me. You have to destroy the embryo in order to get embryonic stem cells.
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WINTERY KNIGHT 
But you see, with adult stem cell therapy they don’t get to stick it to those annoying pro-lifers. They don’t get to show that they are allowed to do whatever they want, irrespective of anyone’s ethical concerns. Embryonic stem cell research is so much more satisfying in that regard.
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Using embryos in stem cell research helps reinforce the notion that embryos are non-rights-bearing, disposable material, thus reinforcing a woman’s right to choose. The use of embryos in stem cell research is useful if for no other reason than this. Therefore, abortion-friendly scientists will continue to insist that embryos be used in research.
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