suppose you caught a maliglant disease and the only cure was a treatment devoloped by research on embryonic stem cells, would you take it, or would you rather die for ethical reasons?
2006-10-24 13:07:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Oh good republicans go over seas all the time for it...but hell no to it in America...the republicans do not,and will not take the time to get the facts on this research
2006-10-24 13:10:51 · answer #1 · answered by dstr 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
die for ethical reasons, but since not ONE cure or potential cure has ever came from embryonic stem cells. that is kinda a fairy tale. although there have been NUMEROUS cures (i think 74or so) found from adult stem cells. the only reason there is such a push for the embryonic is because if any thing is found from them, they can patent it. they cannot if found form adult stem cells. it all about money
2006-10-25 19:47:43 · answer #2 · answered by mxlj 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suppose it was the 1800s and you inherited a slave plantation from your uncle, would you keep it abenefit from the productivity at the farm, or would you set all the slaves free immediately for ethical reasons.......I hope everyone would choose the latter, but something tells me at least some wouldn't. Afterall slaves didn't vote, and neither to the poor souls whose stem cells are used.
And on the Sixth Day....
2006-10-25 02:03:26 · answer #3 · answered by Smart Guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not embryonic stem cells. but what about adult -stem cells.
They Have:
Rebuilt livers wracked byotherwise irreversable cirrhosis
Repaired Spinal Cord Injuries
Put Crohns disease into remission withthe patients own blood stem cells.
Put Lupus into remission by using stem cells from the patients own bloodstream.
Restored bone marrow in cancer patients using stem cells from umbilical cord blood.
Put leukemia into remission using stem cells from umbilical cord blood.
Healed bone fractures with bone marrow cells
Treated sickle cell anemia using stem cellsfrom umbilical cord blood.
Restored sight in blind people using an ocular surface
-More than 30 anticancer uses for adult stem cells have been tested on humans, with many already in routine therapeutical use.
-By some accounts, the area in which adult stem-cell applications are moving fastest is autoimmune disease, in which the body's own protective system turns on itself. Diseases for which adult stem cells currently are being tested on humans include diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Evans syndrome, rheumatic disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), among many others.
-Just last February, two different human-autopsy studies demonstrated that adult stem cells transfused into the marrow work their way into the brain, where they can repair neurons and other vital cells. Other studies have shown that when injected into animals with severed spinal cords, stem cells rush to the injury site effecting repairs. "I think the stem cells may act as a repair squad," says the leader of one of the two studies, Helen Blau of the Stanford University Brain Research Institute. "They travel through the bloodstream, respond to stress, and contribute to brain cells. They clearly repair damage in muscle and other tissues."
-Adult Stem cells have been injected into damaged hearts and become functional muscle. This destroyed the dogma that heart muscle cannot be repaired, just as stem-cell research also wrecked the firmly held belief that brain tissue cannot regenerate.
-And many other stories of healing
EMBRYONIC STEM-CELL RESEARCH HAS DONE NOTHING!!!
2006-10-24 20:50:25 · answer #4 · answered by ace 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You do know there is FUNDED Stem Cell research going on as we speak right? Have you even bothered to look into this, or are you like every other blind liberal who believes what their special interest group tells them. You people are the suckers. Researchers have Embryonic and NON Embryonic stem cells available to them, and the government is Funding the Non Embryonic Research. So what is your beef? You are being suckered by a group of researchers that want your pity to fund their whole project. Such fools people are.
2006-10-24 20:12:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
There's a difference between supporting research and squandering government money on it. And even so, I would not take the cure for ethical reasons. It is ALWAYS more honorable to give ones life in the defence of say, thousunds of others.
2006-10-24 20:18:20 · answer #6 · answered by chris 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Did you see the movie The Sixth Day?
Did you see the faceless beings who had to take on the conciousness of other people.
Did it make you wonder about some things?
Stop and answer those questions after you read my answer: "Quite probably."
2006-10-24 20:15:15 · answer #7 · answered by Just Me 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
stem cells research doesnt have to come from embryos....
2006-10-24 20:15:43 · answer #8 · answered by shut up dummy 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I didn't and there isn't, so who cares?
2006-10-24 20:15:57 · answer #9 · answered by Yak Rider 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
DON'T care if I do die, do die, do die!
2006-10-24 20:10:22 · answer #10 · answered by daydoom 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋