What do you think of stem cell research? I'm not really sure how I feel.?

Question

On the one hand, I think if there is a slight chance to help those that are suffering then that is good,
on the other hand I wonder if it will 'encourage' women to have abortions or to be less 'selective' with whom they sleep with as they will just abort...

I have mixed feelings and I'm not sure.

Answer 1

To Take life, in order to perchance , improve someone Else's
life, is not a worthwhile trade off.

Answer 2

The arguments are moot. It IS happenning, right now, right here in the U.S. of A. as well as elsewhere in the world. What all the useless hoopla is about is US Government funding of said research, which, by the way, is also going on, right here, right now, by THIS administration. The Bush administration has funded more stem cell research than ANY other administration.

Stem cells are available from all kinds of places and tissues. Embryonic just so happens to be the best. The Bush Admin doesn't want to fund the embryonic research with government funds so that they don't give the impression they are supporting abortion. There are those that say it is just a different matter of principle - If this research is SOOOO promising then the private sector should be jumping all over it (and it is, believe me) - why should the government interfere with that??? Somebody is going to come up with something, a breakthrough perhaps, a "silver bullet" treatment for some disease(s) through this reasearch - do you honestly think our government wants that to be in some other country???

Look folks, the research IS going on. Some of it funded by the government, most of it not. Just like 1000's of other research avenues.

The issue is being "politicized" by BOTH sides and that stinks.

Answer 3

I think it is essential. The potential breakthroughs in health rival that of the discovery of antibiotics. Further, if no stem cell research is done, the embryos will STILL be simply thrown out. While I think that abortion is a waste of human life and wish that contraceptive was more widely used instead, as long as it is going on, why not take advantage of it? Otherwise, the abortions are all for nothing.

Also, abortions aren't the only source. When a couple has in vitro fertilization, there are often embryos made that are never implanted and these are also being thrown out. At the very least these should be used to study stem cells. I can see no reason not to.

Edit: While the law only bans government sponsorship of stem cell research, very little health research takes place without government money and what little research that IS done without government money has no reason to release the findings to the public when they stand to make a substantial amount of money off of their findings.

Answer 4

This issue has nothing to do with abortion.

Embryonic stem cells are made during the In Veto Fertilization process. They use the strongest to proceed with the process and the rest are destroyed or kept preserved indefinitely. One main debate is to use these for research or not. But the embryonic stem cells are never inside a uterus. The definition of an abortion is the destruction of a fetus inside a uterus.

many are misinformed on how they get the embryos and think it comes from abortions.

Answer 5

One can easily tell by the way you word your question that you’re quite sure how you feel & you’re against it. Why not be honest & just write that? There’s much more than a “slight” chance of medical science developing stem cell therapies & the notion that it will entice virtuous women to become promiscuous because they would just abort their pregnancies for stem cell research is absurd.

Answer 6

I think that you have been misled; the Bush policy does not ban any type of stem cell research. The policy only restricts what the government will pay for.

I support stem cell research and would not mind if my tax dollars were used for it. I can also understand how Catholics and other pro life types could be opposed.

I think the policy is a good compromise.

Answer 7

i am with you on if it will help people, by all means we need it. on the other hand, in my opinion, if there was a way for it to cure people, dont you think people would start making the big bucks investing and developing it? believe me, there are drug companies and other private investors who can and do support this research. the question is, should government do it all? no. but bush has given more taxpayer money than anyone to develop and investigate it. also, here in calif, taxpayers approved a bill to give an amazing amount of money for the research. i voted against it.

Answer 8

Embryonic stem cell research is a failure. They have made no breakthroughs whatsoever.

There IS progross in adult stem cells research. However this is not a cure-all. Recent studies showed brain tumors were the result of stem cell injections in dymentia patients.

Answer 9

I don't see how it affects abortion. Stem cell research usues eggs that are just going to be thrown away anyway. It's not like they have any further use.

Answer 10

I think it is a great idea anything that will help can't be all that bad.
I also believe that our government throws away a lot of money on other less important issues.