What are your thoughts on embryonic stem cell research?

Question

Should it be legalized.

theorangeevil you do know that they destroy the ones that are not used is that any different.


These may or may not be what I believe I just like to get people to think about what is happening.

athorgarak In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of stem cells drawn from their own blood.

All but two of the volunteers in the trial, details of which are published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), do not need daily insulin injections up to three years after stopping their treatment regimes. These however were not embryonic stem cells.

shirleykins Some researchers say that there are certain things that adult stem cells cannot be used for that embryonic stem cells would be better a choice.

athorgarak Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma - Forty-year-old Mark Fulford was not able to receive a bone marrow transplant; so doctors used stem cells from umbilical cord blood ("Different kind of stem cell already saving lives," Denver Rocky Mountain News, August 18, 2001).

http://stemcells.nih.gov/StemCells/Templates/StemCellContentPage.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID=%7bA604DCCE-2E5F-4395-8954-FCE1C05BECED%7d&NRORIGINALURL=%2finfo%2ffaqs%2easp&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest#whyuse

theorangeevil I admire that you would be willing to die instead of receiving treatment that might save your life, simply because it comes from some research that would violate for your principles. Most people would go ahead & receive the treatment irregardless of the source.

Answer 1

I am completly for it. Abortion is legal. Woman are going to continue to have abortions therefore why not take something good out of that situation. I watched a show on the medical channel regarding stem cells and the use of them I believe it was England. I was so amazed at what they had accomplished. The millions of people here in America that could benifit from this research should definitly out weigh the 1000s that are against it. And like I said take something good out of a Bad situation. D & G Gifts Etc

Answer 2

I am not opposed to stem cell in principle. I'm always for new life-saving technology. I am opposed to specifically killing embyros to harvest their stem cells. I can't in good conscience as a pro-life individual support that. If I needed a kidney transplant, I couldn't go kill a guy and rip his kidney out of him for the very same reason. I know that not everybody shares my (what some people consider 'extreme') view on abortion and human rights, but whatever, that's incidental to me. And yes, I have some serious genetic diseases in my family that I am likely to inherit, so please nobody argue that if I were put in the situation to need embryonic stem cells, that I'd violate my own principles. Oh yeah, and I'm not religious in the least, so this isn't a god/soul thing.

*Edit: Yes, I know that they destroy embryos not being used. How does that matter exactly? You're pointing out something that's both true and irrelevant. And you act like I'm not concerned that people are creating embryos by the dozens and to keep or toss away at their leisure.

Answer 3

As of this date there have been no positive results of stem cell research. NONE
We often hear about the future benefits, and I admit that there COULD be benefits, but so far this has been a wonder of nature that man has yet to crack.
There have been no cancer patients cured, no birht defects righted
NOTHING. It is a waste of time and it is an offshoot of the abomination of the abortion industry. it must try to put on a socially responsable face for the horror it produces!

Answer 4

It doesn't need to be legaized, because apparently it's now been ascertained that adult stem cells, your own or someone else's, can be used just as well or better than embryonic. Using babies poses an interesting moral question, but, like "evolution," science has moved on.

Answer 5

As a person who doesn't have any serious illnesses, I hold my wacko religious beliefs above the welfare of my fellow man.

Answer 6

It certainly should be legal. What a waste that it isn't. So many people who are suffering could be helped.

Answer 7

its a wonder for medical,i agree with it completely

Answer 8

okay with me.