Stem cell research!!! Your opinions please.?

Question

so far chuffed about the posative response.
Surely it should be down to the individual in the unforunate predicament of going through abortion. It would be amazing if we could take something good out of such a sad situation. Women will continue to have abortions, so for gods sake lets help someone out of it

Answer 1

I think Stem Cell research can be the key to curing many diseases. My Mom has Alzheimers and it is a horrible disease that may be cured through stem cell research. So I say let's keep progress moving forward in this area!!!!!

Answer 2

I consider my self a bit of a republican and I am all for it. The sheer potential of using stem cells is monumental. Using stem sells we could regrow tissues, help burn victims better regrow their own skin with minimal scarring and post-op work. Grow new organs and compatible organs for transplants. Imagine having your own "bank" of organs to draw on should something happen to you. Per se, a new liver if you get Hepatitis, a new pancreas for diabetics or stomach for people who get stomach cancer. If you're paralyzed you could get a new spine or regrow the damaged tissue. The benefits definitely ourweigh the costs and if people weren't so blind and ignorant that Thousands could benefit from one source. The needs of the many outweigh the opininons of the few. Abortions aren't even needed to obtain stem cells, you can get stem cells from umbilical cords and cord blood, and last I checked, people were squeezing out babies all the time all over the place. Simply because one source may be questionable or even gruesome, all sources should not be discounted and disregarded.

I would like to attest that I am in no way pro abortion. I don't think people should go around getting them willy-nilly, but sometimes it may be neccessary and should never be ruled out as a medical practice. Also, even if it takes 10 years to begin discovering any cures or making any progress towards the battle against debilitating disease, it is worthwhile. People are spending too much time and energy trying to protect the unborn, but hey, if you're alive and walking about on your own, we don't give a rat's patootie about you, and for the record, a fetus is not a person, it's a fetus, it's almost a symbiote of the mother, it does not have an independent immune, cardiovascular, nervous system or anything until that cord is cut. Until that cord is cut, that being is a conglomeration of cells growing in the mother's uterus.

Answer 3

Well I guess I'll be the first to be against it. I assume that you are refering to embryonic stem cell research. Already in some states they have been doing experiments, and the leading research project at a university in California says it'll be at least 10 years before they even get to the stage of finding cures...after $2 billion are spent.
So what is embryonic stem cell research? It uses stem cells harvested from cloned, for lack of proper word, babies. They say that they strictly prohibit human cloning, but that is only if the baby is brought to term. The ammendment also says that anyone who implants a clone will be prosecuted. But they get away free if they bring the baby to term then kill it before birth.

It's not about cures that they are doing this, if so they'd have given it up long ago. It has to be about cloning. Did you know that no cures have ever been found by embryonic stem cell research? Yet 9! 9 have been found from adult embryonic stem cells, which did not destroy a human to get it. Adult stem cells are also a lot easier to get, as when in embryo stage the cells are very finicky and sometimes mess up completely. Also there are over 100 in an adult, and only !1! in an embryo. Adult stem cells used to be thought of as only one-track, only able to cure whatever they were meant for. It is now being found that they have every bit as much versatility as that of embryonic stemcells.

You probably don't think that abortion is bad, or you wouldn't be supporting it. So here are some things about the woman who carries the egg. To be able to harvest enough eggs at a time to make it worth while for the scientists, the woman has to undergo extensive hormonal treatment. That carries risks in itself. The procedure of extracting cells is very risky, and may actually cause infertility.
Just in case you don't know what is going on in the research, they take an egg, implant the nucleus of another cell into it and start it splitting like normal. There it can grow in a fake womb till old enough to get the cells. Then they get the cells and kill the embryo. Unfortunately, they have a problem. They have not been succesful in getting it to split more than twice. Never gettingit to the stage of usefulness.
You think they are just using babies that were going to be aborted anyway. fyi, most women don't even realize the are pregnant until AFTER the stage at which they can harvest the stemcells. So almost all women going into this are doing it specifically for the purpose of stemcell research.

Have you ever read the ammendment itself? It leaves a lot to interpretation, and many many loopholes. Like it would be totally legal to clone yourself, have the baby brought to term in an artificial womb then take the kidneys, heart or whatever it was the the baby had that you needed then kill it. Sounds like America, right? Human sacrifice for the good of the community.

I've explained what it is, how it's done, why it's not necesary, and how they are trying to get it through in as short as possible, and as well as I cannot being a docter or scientist. Just a concerned citizen.

This is oppening a door for other things like euthanizing 'braindead' people(it's not uncommon for 'braindead' people to wake up after a 10 year comma, even ones more 'braindead' than Terry Shiavo) then it will progress to people with severe mental retardation and alzhymers. Eventually it may be carried even further 'for the good of the people'.

The most dangerous time in the average persons life is the first 9 months when they can't defend themselves. Now what?

Answer 4

Fantastic, Im all for it. Its a wonderful development and seems to be a hope for the future for many people suffering from debilitating conditions.

Answer 5

Yes, Yes, Yes. This is the miracle that could save so many lives.

Answer 6

I think it is crazy for anyone to be against it!

Answer 7

definatly should be allowed, could help so many people

Answer 8

All for it.

Answer 9

I'm all for it!

Answer 10

for it - sure thing!!