Babies For Life To Hold Informational Meeting

Published: September 25, 2003

ATLANTA—The Babies for Life Foundation will have an informational meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 3, to discuss volunteer opportunities and how babies can save lives through umbilical cord blood donation.

BFL is a nonprofit organization that collects donated umbilical cord blood for extraction of stem cells for medical treatment and research as an alternative to embryonic stem cells research. The organization was founded in 2002 by Catholic obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Gerry Sotomayor.

Refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m., and the meeting will begin at 7 p.m.

According to BFL, umbilical cord stem cell transplants are a less painful and more effective treatment than bone marrow transplants to treat many cancers and various other diseases. Furthermore, cord blood provides an equally effective, more abundant source of stem cells for research than do embryos, without the moral conflict. Embryos, which are human life, are destroyed to obtain stem cells.

Call (404) 303-9187 for information and directions.