Does the ice-bucket challenge kill babies

Coach Will Muschamp and son (August 21, 2014)

ChrismaNews blogger Kevin McCullough contends the faddish ice-bucket challenge to raise money for ALS research is dangerous to unborn babies:

The ALS association is actively funding embryonic stem-cell research and admitting that they likely will continue to do so in the future. The funding of embryonic stem-cell research means that children are created and at their earliest stages of life they are destroyed so that the stem cells (from usually the base of the brain) can be harvested to perform tests.

Embryonic stem-cell research has proven 0 percent effective in combating diseases like ALS and other neurological degenerative ailments.

Adult stem cells, which can be harvested from living humans without their being killed, have, on the other hand, proven vastly effective in making progress toward slowing down and in some cases seeing remission or reversal of degenerative defects.

ALSA states that it views the funding of both types of research as important toward finding cures. They continue to say this while recognizing the moral conflict of taking innocent human life.

Read the rest of the story here: http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/45106-warning-icebucketchallenge-could-kill-babies

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Does the ice-bucket challenge kill babies