Whats up with stem cell research??

Question

What are stem cells? What are embryos? How can it help/hurt people? Why does President Bush hate it?

Answer 1

There is embryonic stem cell research, where researchers work with a live embryonic stem cell. Bush is a Christian, so doesn't want our tax dollars to pay for it, and cause a curse on the USA. Consequently, people would also be conceiving embryos for the money paid to them giving no thought to the embryo.

Stem cells can be taken from umbilical cords & elsewhere for research. I don't see any problem with that type of research.

God sent His Word & healed us of all our diseases. One doesn't have to dissect and embryo to heal people. The healer is already here.

Answer 2

President Bush is against expanding stem cell research because the scientists get the cells by destroying human embryos. An embryo is the few cells that are the beginning of human life ... what develops into a baby in the mother's womb (uterus). These embryos have been frozen to be implanted into the mother's womb at some date in the future. Sometimes the families don't use them. Stem cells can become any kind of cell the body needs. It's possible they could cure Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington's Disease, spinal cord injuries. The simple fact is that it's also possible to get stem cells from the umbilical cord blood after a baby is born. Then there would be no need to destroy potential human life.

Answer 3

http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/history-of-stem-cell-research-faq.htm
This should give you the basic facts.The president does not hate it ,he is the man responsible for it even happening.He like many Americans oppose Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research(A human embryo must be killed).This in no way stops or hinders private funding.
There are other sources of stem cells that have shown much more promise and actual treatments.These are from adults and from umbilical cord blood.
As of today there have been no good finding to suggest that embryonic cells hold great promise.
An embryo is a fertilized human egg that can grow into a child if implanted in a woman's womb.

Answer 4

When a sperm fertilizes an egg, it becomes an embryo.

Very early in gestation, while the cells are still dividing, and it is not yet considered a fetus, they extract cells from it.

Stem cells have been thought, and in some ways proven, to help bodies heal from illness and paralysis.

If you believe life starts at conception, from the very second the egg and sperm meet, than what they are doing is killing another life. If you dont belive that, then it doesnt harm anyone to do the research, and harms living people by denying them the research and possible cure for their problems.

President Bush opposses abortion, so he does not support stem cell research.

This argument does not always have something to do with religion.

Answer 5

All the President is opposing is the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Private labs are still free to do as much of it as they want.

However, embryos must be destroyed in order to harvest their stem cells.

Adult stem cells have shown much more promise than embyronic stem cells in terms of treating diseases. Adult stem cells can be harvested from a number of sources, including human fat. Also, umbilical cords are full of stem cells.

If embryonic stem cells really held so much promise, then the big scientific labs would be falling all over themselves to be the first one to discover their uses. If they're not, perhaps that should tell us something.

Answer 6

Medical researchers believe stem cell research has the potential to change the face of human disease by being used to repair specific tissues or to grow organs.

There exists a widespread controversy over stem cell research that emanates from the techniques used in the creation and usage of stem cells. Embryonic stem cell research is particularly controversial because, with the present state of technology, starting a stem cell 'line' requires the destruction of a human embryo and/or therapeutic cloning. Opponents of the research argue that this practice is a slippery slope to reproductive cloning and tantamount to the instrumentalization of a potential human being. Contrarily, some medical researchers in the field argue that it is necessary to pursue embryonic stem cell research because the resultant technologies are expected to have significant medical potential. The ensuing debate has prompted national and international authorities to seek suitable regulatory frameworks and highlighted the fact that stem cell research represents a moral, social and ethical challenge.

Answer 7

They are cells taken from discarded embryos (either via abortion, miscarriage, or unused test tube babies).

Embryos are fertilized eggs.

The research can help future generations by possibly discovering the cures for some diseases that don't have cures as of yet.

President Bush hates it because embryos are used. He considers all embryos to be humans. What he and other opponents fail to understand is that these embryos are all currently being discarded.

Answer 8

The problem is...christian fundamentalists only wish to save the life of people who are not born yet.

They could care less about people who are alive now. But they LOOOOOOOVE YOU. And they want you to know that. They also want you to know that they need money continue being hypocrits!

Stem cell research is the most modern and promising form of medicine that has happened for a very very long time.

Scientists believe that it is possible to cure many diseases with it. But the fundamentalists would rather put their faith in the invisible man to come down and "touch" them. It would be nice if the world worked like that. But sadly it doesn't.

And no, embryos are NOT, I repeat NOT, human babies. This is the cover you get for it. Nothing else!

Answer 9

stem cells are derived from EMBRYOS... embryos are fertilized eggs from human beings....it can potentially help people by "growing" organs from cells.... because all the specialized cells in your body come from one cell.... you can take one cell from a stem cell and grow it into whatever organ the scientist manipulates it into.... that would mean the people with cancer to any organ can just take that organ out and replace it with another... and paralyzed people have a chance of moving their limbs again after they grow new neurons with the stem cells.... to have a single stem cell, you must harvest thousands of embryos...and that means thousands of lives... if you believe life begins at conception... bush hates it because he doesnt want to subject the embryos to that kind of experimentation.... he doesnt realize that the embryos will be discarded anyway of the people using in vitro dont use it....

Answer 10

Would I want the seal killed? DAMN RIGHT. I think a human life is worth more than a seal.

What are Bush's reasons for using his 'veto power'?. Something along the lines of : 'this supports the murder of innocent lives, so I vetoed it.' (And the crowd cheers like that's such a statement.)

What a dumb-@ss. Seems to have no problem killing innocent people in third-wrold countries though. (Oh yeah! War generates money!)

I'm sure that other countries are not going to care about Bush's 'opinion' on this and go full-ahead with their research. Screw Bush and his skewed view on the advancement of the human race.

I don't consider it a 'person' until it is a consious being capapble of existing on it's own, outside of the human body or lab.

If you really want to get down to it, sperm is alive too. But you don't hear anyone b1tching about killing sperm cells from casual sex. What about all that sperm you flush down the toilet in that used condom? Nobody cares about those guys! :D