Question for Christians:If it was 70%guaranteed that stem cells can cure cancer,would u support its use?

Answer 1

May Jews get in a word here?

During the first 40 days of gestation, the fetus, according to the Talmud, is “as if it were simply water,” and from the 41st day until birth it is “like the thigh of its mother.” After the time, the fetus is considered only one part of the woman’s body.

Stem cells for research purposes, though, can also be procured from donated sperm and eggs mixed together in a petri dish and cultured there. Since genetic materials outside the uterus have no chance of developing into a human being, they have even less legal status in Jewish law than zygotes and embryos in the first stages of gestation, when the Talmud classifies them “as if it were simply water.”

Still, while we should have respect for gametes and embryos, they may be discarded if they are not going to be used for some good purpose. Since they cannot become a human being outside a woman’s uterus, their status is even less than that of an embryo in the first 40 days of gestation, and thus we should not prohibit simply discarding them.

Moreover, when a couple agrees to donate such embryos for purposes of medical research, our respect for such pre-embryos and embryos outside the womb should certainly be superseded by our duty to seek to cure diseases.

As a result, frozen embryos originally created for purposes of overcoming infertility may be discarded (presumably after the couple has had as many children as they plan to produce or has given up in that effort), but they may also be used for good purposes. One such purpose is to produce stem cells for medical research. Indeed, couples should be encouraged to donate their extra embryos for such efforts.

Answer 2

I think that there is a general confusion between "stem cells" and "embryonic stem cells". Many of the fundamentalists believe that life starts at conception and therefore any use of a fertilized egg is murder.

Personally, I don't share this view.

I find it heartening that as research progresses we are finding more and more sources of these valuable cells other than embryos. It is my hope that these alternative sources will make the whole debate over the morality of using stem cells just evaporate.

Answer 3

Absolutely would I support Stem Cell research if it had the possibility to cure cancer. IF, however, it was adult stem cell research.

Destroying growing babies (embryo) to harvest their stem cells for research is horrible. If even there was a 100% chance of curing cancer, how could anybody believe that it is okay to kill an innocent one just to save themselves????

Adult Stem Cell Research - GOOD
Embryonic Stem Cell Research - EVIL

You don't even have to be Christian to understand this.

Answer 4

I'm a Christian, I support stem cell research. The Church and State and Science should all be separate. Your not killing your fetus so get over it. I am sorry, that was harsh, but I really don't think it is anyone's business accept God and the people who are dying of cancer. I'm sure if it is really so awful God will strike the laboratory down before they come up with a cure, and no body is asking you to donate your eggs.

Again, I am sorry, but this subject gets me going.

Answer 5

I am a Christian, and I would have no problem with stem cell research even if the guarantee were only 10% or less

Answer 6

I am a Christian and I beleive in stem cell research, as long as the ones used come from fertility clinics, where they would be otherwise destroyed. If there is a minute chance that it could help someone then why not .

Answer 7

That depends on where they got the stem cells from. If they took it from a fetus they killed then, no I don't support it. If they took the stem cells from a family member, other person, etc. that didn't have to die after they took the stem cells from them then yes, I would totally support it.

Answer 8

I am a Christian and I DO support stem cells research. If God didn't want that done, he would not have made some scientists!
But then, that's just me. I'm not fanatical that way.
Peace.

Answer 9

Absolutely! You see, the only stem cells that have ever shown any promise were NOT derived from unborn babies. They were derived either from placential stem cells or from adult cells. There is NO REASON to kill babies to advance this technology.

Answer 10

well they are still doing alot of studies on this. the cancer can cure the very beginning of the simplist cancer. but if it has to do with life... the seed of life I am not sure if I would want to be a part of that. why would you kill one to let another live? the tree comes from a seed in the ground if you take that away you have no tree left.