2006-08-24 12:16:22 · 10 answers · asked by sue man 2 in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
Yes, it should be made legal. We need to further our knowledge in scientific fields to make our lives healthier and more worthwhile when we are on this earth.
2006-08-24 12:18:41 · answer #1 · answered by professionalfemale01 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every month as I am female an egg passes through me and goes away because it is not fertilized. This is not considered murder as it is a part of nature. An egg that is not fertilized is not a human being yet. Every year in this world people who are fully formed are murdered, put to death, killed in accidents, die in wars yet I do not see the controversy in this fully formed people being sent to war that these unformed eggs purposely fertilized in the hope that some child who is born with nerve problems who cannot walk may some day be able to walk or a person who has lost a hand or foot may some day be able to find a replacement that is more suitable than a bionic. The great hope is that stem cell research may be able to help fix a great many problems and illnesses in the world. As of yet it is the great hope but it still has to be proven if it can indeed do the things that all great thinkers dreamers scientists and medical professionals hope. The question I have to ask you is would you deny a child who lost his foot in an accident the chance to have a new foot simply because an egg that would not have been fertilized otherwise except for this purpose?
2006-08-24 19:24:00 · answer #2 · answered by Faerieeeiren 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
absolutely. the potential to revolutionise science and provide cures (or at least very effective therapies) to a range of currently intractible, terminal diseases is simply incalculable; far outweighing the uninformed or poorly informed, largely misinterpreted-biblical and groundless-fear concerns of a vocal minority.
PS don't forget it's now supposedly joined the ranks of procedures as harmless as taking a dna sample cell from the developing embryo - rather than killing it outright. certainly safer than taking a car ride whilst pregnant.
(or having an abortion, or simply being a pregnant mother, where the pregnancy may well just abort naturally for no good reason - i dont see anyone trying ban wombs in favour of artificial growth tanks, despite the number of foetuses that would be saved each year......... how much is emotion ruling peoples heads instead of far more chilling - i.e. what happens if we DONT do this - fact?)
2006-08-24 20:38:04 · answer #3 · answered by markp 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I believe it can help find cures or help with some of the horrible diseases and conditions people have.
Edit: Ok if it's legal not enough is going on and like the above mentioned they need to expand what they can do with it.
2006-08-24 19:22:13 · answer #4 · answered by Nikky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ONLY IF the fetus from stem cell research is from aborted fetuses!@
2006-08-24 19:22:00 · answer #5 · answered by nswblue 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes....... for all of the people that do not..... I bet that if your child needed something that was derived form this research, you would be real quick to support it. a circumsiced foreskin can "make" skin for hundreds of burn victims, how can something like that not be allowed? ( i know that it is legal), i am just saying.
2006-08-24 20:16:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is legal. The federal government just refuses to fund it.
2006-08-24 19:22:48 · answer #7 · answered by bcrockrebel 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's already legal, but it should be expanded, far beyond what the president is allowing.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApWD7f4yRIyhCX5sHul8LkHsy6IX?qid=20060823155531AA4jmwF
2006-08-24 19:22:04 · answer #8 · answered by ratboy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes
2006-08-24 19:21:13 · answer #9 · answered by jennifer 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there is no law against it and that is what i want to do when i graduate from college.
2006-08-24 19:19:14 · answer #10 · answered by The original John Doe 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋