my biology professor will be talking about stem cell research in class tomorrow. I am personally against embryotic stem cell research. I don't see the use of adult stem cell research in itself as unethical, but the ramifications of use in experimentations with humans could be dangerous if not immoral. I am not against all research, I just think it needs to be carefully monitored and to throw out ethics in the name of science is irresponsible. While promising and fascinating, transgenics is not something we will probably ever fully understand.
I want to hear some arguments for and against both embryotic stem cell research and adult stem cell research.
thanks!
2007-04-12 14:35:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
my dad has cancer right now.
and no, it would not.
2007-04-12 14:41:23 · update #1
ur right, they're not dying IF the experiment is successful. But what about the tens of thousands of experiments that don't work?
2007-04-12 14:43:47 · update #2
adult stem cell research can be slightly more understandable cuz the person has the choice to decide for themselves...embryotice in my opinion is a crime...murder even. pretty much though you stated my exact opinion.
2007-04-12 14:40:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe you should do the research if you're going to be participating in a discussion about it. People here will give you THEIR opinion on it but you need to formulate your own based on cold hard facts. Being a person in the science and medical field ....
Yes I happen to think it is ethical and it depends on the certain limits to which some scientists take it. For example, there is no harm doing research on stem cells from the testes while trying to explore different therapies to encourage new cell growth. A lot of people should do extensive research on the entire matter before just standing up and saying it's wrong. All people like to hear about is how embryonic stem cell research is going they hear the word "embryo" in there and some how think it is synonymous with murder. In which case it is not in my opinion and from what I've gathered from reading numerous studies. I happen to be able to remain objective when it comes to such things and don't let religious beliefs come into play when it comes to saving more than one life, if it may be called a life.
2007-04-12 21:41:47 · answer #2 · answered by Lexy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a positive for stem cell research. My granddaughter passed away 2 years ago from a rare cancer that only 4 kids in the U.S. have. She was able to go to Mass. to a research clinic to give some of her stem cell to help find a cure for other children like her. The cancer is a mixed germ cell growth that only 16 year old get and she was 7. It got mixed up in the embryo at conception. Hopefully they will find a cure and her death will mean something.
2007-04-12 21:44:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically nothing is dieing, the cells are still human, and the only thing the cells actually do is to finally decide which cell they should be (nerve, skin, bone, brain, etc). I think it is a good idea. It can help many people who have been in accidents to receive movement once more. Although soon they could just extract their brain or use their brain to send signals to another body and just use that.
But either way I'm for stem cell research as long as it is only for the purpose of helping people, although helping p eople will lead to overpopulation.
2007-04-12 21:42:21 · answer #4 · answered by blmr0123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the possibilities that stem cell research holds in developing better treatments and cures for a number of illnesses is overwhelmingly more important than the ethical issue. If science has the opportunity to cure, heal and help the living then i dont see it as wrong for them to use this research to help them do that. of course there would need to be strict controls which naturally would be open to abuse, but nothing great in science has ever been acheived by not taking the next step.
2007-04-12 21:40:38 · answer #5 · answered by sydneygal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We already threw out ethics in the name of science, when we made the atom bombs. Our species is headed towards extinction, we must do something creative to turn things around. There are so many things we could do with the new technology that could be derived from stem cell research, that anyone who is opposed to it, can be considered to be a retard, who doesn't know what he is talking about, and ignored completely.
no offence
2007-04-12 21:46:28 · answer #6 · answered by AVALABLEMAN 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am doing research for my end term assessment on the subject of stem cell research. I am gathering information and attempting to see what the entire picture entails. However, I am personally against it for moral reasons. Man is going too far in it's search for different ways of resolving things. One day I hope they don't clone or create something that would be regrettable in the eyes of GOD and in the sight of mankind.
2007-04-12 21:42:01 · answer #7 · answered by mrsbasemore 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if it was someone you loved with cancer that could be cured through stem cell research, would you feel the same way?
2007-04-12 21:40:22 · answer #8 · answered by diannegoodwin@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm all for it. Anything that may help to save lives, or find cures for diseases should be encouraged!
The morality of not doing so is far worse than the debate on whether it is ethical or not.
My Compliments.
2007-04-12 21:41:23 · answer #9 · answered by Faceless 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋