Does stem cell research decrease the value of human life?

Answer 1

Stem cell research values human life. There are valuable people that die everyday and that are incapacitated (sickness, coma or wheel chair) everyday.

Pres Bush made his moral statements and would rather that these bunches of cells be bequeathed to the Earth like our dead. But, none of these get a 'burial' or is mourned - they are not our dead. It's a bunch of medical waste, and is treated as such. I think a lot of his statements were hypocritical and self righteous.

But, I would just like to remind everyone that this bill was only about federal funding. Stem cell research is not illegal and is privately funded. People, you can always help with your money, and write and pester some big dogs like Bill Gates who just awarded over 250mil to AIDS research.

It may be better if we, the people, funded this and kept it from the government. Wouldn't that be rich - maybe could escape some regulation/taxes like the internet.

Answer 2

Stem cell research has many aspects. There is adult stem cell research, which has for decades been used to treat conditions, and is being used to treat even more conditions. There is placenta stem cell research, which seems very promising. There is blood stem cell research, which also is very promising. Then there is embryonic stem cell (ESC) research, which consists of killing a potential human life, which is still at this time far from producing anything of medical value.

I assume you are talking about the ESC research. The thing about it is, that if it is so promising, why won't any private investors fund it?

When you take a potential human life and deliberately end it and then use its remains for experiments, that is a step in the wrong direction for those who believe that even at this stage, it is human life and it is wrong to snuff it out so casually. There is no proof that it will solve all the medical problems that other people say it will.

For many, it is ethically questionable action to achieve scientifically questionable gains. That does not warrant the spending the peoples' money on it, IMO.

Answer 3

No, stem cell research is only done on the excess of embryos from invitro fertilization. The vast majority of these embryos are destroyed anyway if not used for research... which is why it makes no sense whatsoever for President Bush to veto such a bill. Like most other things in this world he doesn't quite understand it, so he blindly adopts the position he's told by the religious right. Someday if Bush develops a disease like diabetes, Parkinson's or Lou Gehrigs that stem cell research can help find a cure for, I wonder if he'll change his dogmatic ideology. In the same way, I wonder if he would have gone to war with Iraq if it was him and his daughters who had to go over and fight as well.

Answer 4

Stem cell research is an excellent idea. Stem cell research from embryo's isnt.

THey havent gotten anywhere with emryonic studies, but they have made leaps and bounds from adult tissue, and full term cord material.

This isnt a fight to some how gain approval to do the research, they have everything they need right here already to do that. What theyre asking for is government funding spacifically for the studies of embryo stem cells.

Its entirely a political battle. These companies have other things they want to test and study that requires not just embryo's but aborted fetus' and other unmatured tissue, if they can get their foot in the door now on this issue, they can wedge it open wider for more studies later.

Its unnessisary to study aborted anything for this purpose, they get farther and learn more quicker with the tissue of grown things.

When you want something, you divert, make it public, feed the press, and look like you're only desire is improving lives.

Didnt anyone pay attention to white water, and other things like that? All our children nearly bacame wards of the state from birth to adulthood, and we were convinced we were fighting for health coverage.

Read between the lines people.

They can cure these diseases, and even the scientists have admitted they can do with without embryo studies. Its the companies fighting for money, not the scientists.

Answer 5

considering human brings first began utilising in vitro fertilization the left over very last blastocytes have purely been thrown away. Then we detect a thanks to doubtlessly remedy a bunch of human tragedies and the right wing screams homicide. This debate is largely used to provoke the right to existence flow. in spite of the reality stem cells don't have from now on some thing to do with abortion. putting forward its destroying human existence is thoroughly disengenuous, the reality is that it truly is the only way any of those cells actual get to bypass on living. and that i too reject the indisputable fact that those blastocytes are toddlers. you should use embryonic stem cells to augment an liver ... you could't turn a toddler right into a liver I respectfully imagine that ewaj misidentifies the issue. in the time of in vitro fertilization 5 eggs are removed from the mother, fertilized, allowed to diversify right into a 4 celled blastocytes them re implanted into the mother one after the different. the approach creates between a million and four left over 4 cellular blastocytes. As I said before the alternative is between throwing them away or utilising them to objective to remedy maximum cancers or heart ailment or parkinsons or glaucoma or spinal chord damage. If we wang to communicate the ethics of ivf then fantastic yet no one needs to have that discuss. And back you could't turn a toddler right into a heart. So I reject the argument that those are human beings. I do believe human existence is sacrosanct, it truly is why no one ought to ought to die of alzheimers.

Answer 6

I think we need another source of stem cells than embryos.

But since millions of invitro embroys are "discarded" every year anyway.... I think we've already crossed that line.

Since we're already paying the cost - I want the improvements in health.

Answer 7

I believe it does devalue human life when we are willing to dissect embryos for "science". There is no value of life shown to these embryos that if allowed would grow and devlop into babies. The idea of using life to butcher it up for parts or research is barbaric