Professional athletes banking on babies

by Kristin Darguzas (Subscribe to Kristin Darguzas's posts) Aug 30th 2006 1:30PM

Categories: Just For Dads, Health & Safety, Media

Professional football players in Britain are stirring up controversy with the freezing of their children's stem cells as "future repair kits."

Eight professional "footballers", as they're called, have frozen their children's stem cells with two different stem cell labs in the past year.

"As a footballer, if you're prone to injury it can mean the end of your career, so having your stem cells - a repair kit if you like - on hand makes sense," said one player, speaking anonymously.

The stem cell storage as future "repair kit" is an experiment.

I think that the term "repair kit" might sound a little trite, but really I see nothing wrong with this. If the athletes have the money and the inclination, and children are not hurt in the process, why not?

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Christine 8-30-2006 @ 2:16PM

Oh absolutely.. and it will be there not just for them but their children!!

cbs 8-30-2006 @ 2:43PM

Won't they feel horrible if their child ends up with a disease that could be helped with stem cell therapy, but they've used them all because of their career choice?! Granted that's unlikely, but you should not make your child responsible for the choices you've made in life, however direct or indirect that responsibilty may be.

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