who disagree stem cell research besides Bush?

Question

I have a project that it is about "stem cell",
and i want to know who against stem cell research,
then, i can looking for his/her report.

Answer 1

There are many religious groups who are opposed to stem cell research. The Catholic Church is often the most outspoken among them (link 1 a website specifically about this). Here's a quote from John Paul II on the subject:

"Experience is already showing how a tragic coarsening of consciences accompanies the assault on innocent human life in the womb, leading to accommodation and acquiescence in the face of other related evils, such as euthanasia, infanticide, and most recently, proposals for the creation for research purposes of human embryos, destined to destruction in the process. A free and virtuous society, which America aspires to be, must reject practices that devalue and violate human life at any stage from conception until natural death."

Most researchers at this time tend to use stem cells collected from aborted embryoes, so arguably many of the people who are staunchly against abortion will also be found siding against stem cell research as well (a good example essay of that is in link 2).

There is also no small number of people who have no intrinsic problem with stem cell research per se, they just think it should be conducted much more conservatively and cautiously. There can be little doubt right now that it is a difficult procedure with questionable outcomes. Only recently was the first attempt to use stem cells on people made - on terminal patients to see if it would kill them outright. Scientists can't even begin to venture any kind of cure right now because some of the most basic information about stem cells as a therapy is missing. (Link 3 implicates stem cells in cancer, link 4 worries that potential is way overblown)

So there are lots of concerns, and they aren't even necessarily unreasonable ones. Nor are they necessarily reasons to stop research altogether. The least that can be said is that they are things that will have to be addressed if research is to continue.

Peace.

Answer 2

Too many issues people like to think there is a "for" and "against" and paint it that simple. There are simply too many issues both scientific and ethical to simply paint it that way.

Stem cell research has the potential for numerous benefits and much promising research has been done using stem cell research. This hopeful start has many scientists and supporters hailing it as the wave of the future and the cure for just about everything.

The reality is that many who have worked with stem cell research have dealt with contaminated cell lines. Many scientists believe that tighter restrictions need to be placed and that this problem needs to be solved before we begin approving all kinds of stem cell research so that a valuable resource won't be ruined before we have a chance to fully utilize all of its benefits. Once study is done to ensure clean lines to work with, it is believe by some that limited research will be just fine as limited to already developed lines so that we don't have to cross the ethical bridge of creating a demand for aborted fetuses.

Others believe that since the abortions are occuring anyway, we may as well take advantage of an available resource.

Depending on the context, I don't think you'll find very many people that are against ALL stem cell research. You may find some that are FOR ALL stem cell research, though.

In short, who else is against stem cell research? I don't know, but I'm guessing you'll have a tough time finding them on this particular topic since it's mostly scientists that do the answering in here.