As a nurse, I can see the medical benefits....So much could be done to cure diseases and ease pain....what could possibly be more important than easing the suffering that so many have to endure?
2006-07-09 03:21:16 · 10 answers · asked by ndussere 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
The main reason is that people are just like sheep. When religious officials and clergymen declare something "profane" they blindly follow without even caring to investigate the truth of the "profane." Religious officials are so mad because this new technology makes God's job seem like a breeze. After all, if we could do the things that only he is supposed to do, what's so great about him?
A few rogue sheep actually go and look up the exciting new technologies and what they mean to the future of humanity, and realize the amazing benefits we can reap from stem-cell research.
Don't worry yourself with those that oppose stem-cell research, because soon when the technology becomes so widely available, and diseases become even more virulent, I'd like to see them say no to stem-cell treatment.
The day will come when we will be able to say: "We told you so."
2006-07-09 03:36:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think that anyone is opposed to steam cell research itself. The main problem is that the main source of steam cells, at the moment, is human embryos. Since some people view a human embryo to be a person with the same rights as an adult (or at least the same rights as a baby), then they are opposed to creating embryos for the sole purpose of harvesting its cells (which effectively kills it). It other words, it is commingled with the abortion issue.
Since many people view the embryo to be a baby, then they have a problem with killing a child in order to give an old person just a few more years of life. After all, the older person has had his chance at life already; why sacrifice a baby (for research) and deny the embryo the same chance at life?
Some people have gone so far as to liken embryonic steam cell research to cannibalism (or to the fictional Dr. Frankenstein ), since we are taking a baby (embryo) apart and cannibalizing its cells to save another person who may be at the end of his life anyway.
Whether you agree with this position or not, a large number of people sincerely believe this way in some degree or another.
2006-07-09 03:47:16 · answer #2 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of factors. Some ethical. Some political. Some religious. For the lay people, science is what you tell them. It is time that politics and science or pseudo-politics driven by religion and science are completely separate from each other. Unfortunately, it is the politicos who decide how much funding science gets and so science is chained by politics.
To a pure scientist, science is provable facts and theories. Free experimentation and thinking are food. Strangle that in the name of religion and you get such controversies.
2006-07-09 08:07:31 · answer #3 · answered by pharmDawk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there are two issues, where we get the stem cells from and the issue of cloning. What people dont understand is that it would really be cloning, it would be like just creating a twin (like the way that twins exist naturally).
2006-07-09 11:21:30 · answer #4 · answered by daseinpbc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not kill healthy individuals who can donate blood, tissues, platelets, organs, and such. They will save more than one life and it will take away pain? Sounds like a Modest Proposal to me. Just like stem cell research.
2006-07-09 09:36:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, here's a question to answer yours. Why don't people like stealing the stem cells from prematurely born fetuses?
2006-07-09 03:25:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree w/you......i think the opposition to stem cell research comes from pro-life groups, afraid that this will lead to legalizing abortions via the courts.
2006-07-09 03:27:35 · answer #7 · answered by wally l 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not stem cell research people are opposed to,it is fetal stem cells we are opposed to.can you imagine aborting fetuses to obtain stem cells.i would not destroy a babies life to save my own and i hope you would not either.
2006-07-09 03:30:42 · answer #8 · answered by ben 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are scared of cloning, and it is a scary idea...
2006-07-09 03:25:07 · answer #9 · answered by GEO net Correspondent 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
becouse those people aRE Retard monkeys,
they should be exterminated
:)
2006-07-09 03:54:17 · answer #10 · answered by NeO Anderson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋