whats the big deal with stem cell research?

Question

i may be wrong but dont stem cells come from aborted babies? i am against abortion 100 percent but if these poor babies are going to die anyway shouldnt they use the stem cells to promote a better life,

then whats the big deal

Answer 1

There are two types of stem cell research.
There is what you were referring to, which is Embryonic Stem Cell research. The Government does not fund.

Then there is NON Embryonic which is just as good and the government DOES fund this.

Both can be used for research. There is no evidence brought forth to suggest that one is better than than the other.

The screaming was just people trying to get the government to pay more for what they already have. We were a victim of yet another special interest group.

Answer 2

The easiest way to get stem cells (and the best stem cells to research on) come from embryos, not aborted babies. these are embryos created in a lab. They are "test tube" babies. They create a dozen or so in a lab, then chose the best ones to put into the female. The rest get thrown away. They are never in a womb. Researchers would like to get ahold of those embryos before they get thrown away. But our anti-science administration doesn't like that.

So stem cell research actually doesn't have anything to do with abortion.

Answer 3

Stem cells wouldn't necessarily come from aborted fetuses. Scientists could create an embryo in the lab (by combining egg and sperm) and harvest stem cells from it. The embryo would be destroyed in the process, so some conservatives oppose the practice because they consider the embryo a living person. However, that embryo was never inside a woman, so there's no abortion involved.

Furthermore, fertiliy clinics create embryos for implantation every day and then destroy the unused ones. It's a mystery why the aforementioned conservatives don't oppose that practice.

Answer 4

the situation is that some years in the past while stem cells develop right into a clean concern, scientists believed that they have got been in easy terms recent in fetuses which as many comprehend, are gained after non-obligatory abortions. Scientists in lots of international locations the place abortion is socially perfect argument that the fetuses have been going to die in any case, yet a minimum of they are going for use and not thrown away. persons (with good meanings for my section) argument that it truly is unethical to kill people for a miles better medical purpose. This has led scientists to seek for option techniques and that they have got discovered that no longer in easy terms are there stem cells contained in the placenta and umbilical cord, yet even adults have small quantities of stem cells too! person stem cells needless to say don't have the total performance (as in a bone marrow stem cellular will in easy terms make blood, no longer different cellular varieties), yet they have the convenience which you're no longer killing somebody and if the technologies in numerous a protracted time from now enables it, you need to enhance new organs out of your individual DNA (ergo, the topic concerns of organ transplants shortages and organ rejection could develop right into a concern of the previous). of direction, growwing an entire organ out of nowhere remains some thing out of a scifi novel; whether it ought to be a certainty some centuries from now.

Answer 5

No, infant stem cell research destroys living fetus/babies. Aborted babies are treated as mere waste tissue and tossed in a bucket.

Answer 6

if abortion is allowed then sp should [fetal] stem cell research. For the most part, I feel that it's OK since they take the cells when they are less than two weeks old

Answer 7

I don't know why women who have babies don't just automatically let them (who ever is in charge of all this stem cell stuf) have the umbilical cord...........On the other hand now that I think about it, I think I would want half of it to freeze in my own freezer in case my baby needs his/her own stem cell from their unbilical cord down the road....If my child were to get some kind of a disease later, then perhaps the stem cells would be great to have............

Answer 8

Stem cells are actually found in adults, babies and especially in the cord blood of babies. So we do not need to harvest fetuses to get stem cells.

Answer 9

And most agree with that, but why should tax dollars pay for it when it's the huge medical conglomerates who are going to profit from the research? They have half the money in the world (The insurance Companies have the other half and they should be contributing too because they will also benefit from the research) and they should be spending more on research instead of reaping huge profits.

Answer 10

they come from what is essentially a waste product and offers much for research.

it is just the stupid, ignorant religionists that are blocking fed funding