What are Your beliefs on stem cell research?

Question

I'm not looking for religious answers I'm asking You as a Human Being of society and culture. Is it ok to abort fetis's to collect stem cells for the living and why or why not?

Answer 1

I don't have a problem with it. It wouldn't be necessary if scientists were allowed to perform embryonic cloning to produce stem cells, but until that happens I think it's a great way to do some good from an abortion which is generally a fairly stressful time for those involved.

Answer 2

Your question is a double-edged sword. Yes, I am for stem cell research, but no, it's not okay to abort fetuses to obtain them. I think you misunderstand. Spontaneous abortions are not the same as deliberately performing an abortion. The fetuses that are aborted as an act of nature, no one has any control over. Those fetuses are generally discarded. It's from these discarded fetuses that scientists want to obtain stem cells. Is it not more noble in your opinion, to enhance life from tissue that would ordinarily be thrown away?

Think about the advantages of stem cells. People's lives could be saved and enhanced. Serious and deadly diseases could be abolished. The medical profession would no longer be able to gouge people's finances by prescribing poisonous drugs that cause side effects that are worse than the original ailment, and pharmacies would not force some people to either choose to buy drugs or eat that month.

All religious and ethical considerations aside, I think the main objection to stem cell research is that the pundits know how spectacular such a scientific breakthrough would mean to this and future generations, and how it would put the kabosh on doctors' and pharmaceutical companies' exorbitant charges and fees.

Thank you for your thought-provoking question.

Answer 3

Fetuses will be aborted as long as abortion remains legal, and I believe it will. The material has always simply been discarded. Medical scientific advances have brought us to a point where we know there are fantastic possibilities for use of these extracted stem cells in a way which, beyond a shadow of a doubt, will enable man to make a giant leap forward towards conquering some of the most horrific, miserable, and relentless malfunctions of the human body, and all the attendent suffering that these conditions cause. Those who rant against this wonderful new potential are a faction of society that has always been around, and always, down through the pages of recorded History of Medicine, have fought to hold this kind of progress back, basically on the grounds that it would be "against the wishes of God" "God" of course, being the mysterious invisible superbeing whom nobody has ever seen, but whom THEY personally know is opposed to us trying to overcome the causes of these horrendous, distressing ailments.
By way of comparison, it has not been all that long into the past (in cosmic time lol) that Man discovered and harnessed the substances of Anesthesia, which brought us one of those Giant Leaps forward to where we could disable the body systems of pain and anxiety, and the chain reaction these cause, in order to get inside the body and correct numerous problems, from which people frequently died. Once again, the Religious Faction got into the act and raised a furore against the dastardly use of Anesthesia, used in a modified form to ease the pangs of childbirth... . and especially when the birth was not going blueprint perfect. Their reason? That it said right there in the Bible that God had decreed, in everlasting punishment for the sins of Eve, women must hereafter, and for all time, bring forth children in pain and suffering. The use of Anesthesia in any form to prevent this, was to thwart God's specific will, and hence was an aggregious sin. Funny how nobody argues that way now. The overwhelming good sense and logic and rationality of the majority overcame the raucous voices of those who bible-thumped themselves into a frenzy over the issue.
Without a doubt that same powerful good sense and quiet reasoning of clearer and less fanatical minds will overcome this present "Battle of the Stem Cells". We may not in our lifetime see the ultimate triumph of this line of research, but it will happen. The train has left the station, and though an attempt was made to halt it, it will not be stopped. Right now it is picking up steam, and speed and, as happened before, little by little, the frenzied bible-thumpers will be silenced - especially, I am sure, as one by one of THEIR loved ones with some of these awful body ailments, begin to benefit from the results of what the medical scientists achieve. We are on our way to conquering very much a "New Frontier" in the annals of Medicine, just as we once did back at the time of discovery of the wonderful tool of anesthesia which, today, nobody but a raving lunatic would oppose.

Answer 4

The main focus of concern is that the process of extracting embryonic stem cells essentially destroys the embryo. This, explains the National Academy of Sciences, “deprives a human embryo of any further potential to develop into a complete human being. For those who believe that the life of a human being begins at the moment of conception, ESC [embryonic stem cell] research violates tenets that prohibit the destruction of human life and the treatment of human life as a means to some other end, no matter how noble that end might be.”

Answer 5

Have a look online for something which resolves the moral issues surrounding stem cell research - only in the last few days have we been informed that stem cells can in fact be taken from the amniotic fluid surrounding the foetus; the foetus remains totally unaffected.

google "stem cells" amniotic for the latest news.

Answer 6

They just found stem cells in the fluid of a woman giving birth, if they want to use that to generate a cure for a disease, so be it. To clone people to harvest organs is a completely different story, it would be barbaric.

Answer 7

Well everything that seems to actually be working is with adult cells, so the point is rapidly becoming a non-issue.

The way you asked the question I would say no. But I don't have a problem with using cells that are going to be disposed of anyhow. That isn't any different than organ donation in my book.

Answer 8

No it is murder,and big money business,no one will cure anything,to much cash in years of meds ,also population control
they do not want to cure us.Murder for money, nothing new about that.

Answer 9

The whole thing is absurb and disturbing. People have gotten so afraid of dying that they would do anything to perserve their on life. Dying is all part of life, there is nobody who can escape it.

Answer 10

if it can save lives let them do it and do not let old out of date religions stop you