Are you for or against the use of gene technology?

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support your position

Answer 1

I am, but the end doesn't justify the means. Adult and umbilical cord stem cells have enabled research with real benefits. Embryonic stem cell research hasn't produced any benefit. Further, no potential research benefit justifies killing an innocent human life.

That's the moral issue. Murder is wrong, not because it's harmful to society (which it is), but because God declared it wrong and demanded the death penalty for violators.

If you are preparing a report or a debate, you'll need much more background material than you will get here. But the fundamental argument boils down to one question. When does human life begin? Birth doesn't even make sense. The baby is no different outside the womb than a few microseconds ago inside the womb. The doctor performing a Caesarean Section isn't creating a life, or even deciding when that life is created. The only meaningful point of origin is when the paternal and maternal DNA join, forming a single strand of new DNA. That single molecule of DNA fully determines the physiology of the child. The egg and sperm never develop into anything else unless they join. Once they successfully join and develop, the only result is a new human life. If you destroy that human life one microsecond after birth, you are guilty of murder. If you happen to do it a few microseconds earlier, why should you expect God to hold you guiltless?

Answer 2

Personally and professionally I'm for it. Gene technology has been in use in the field of medicine for decades already. That's how the vast majority of Insulin is made (by having transferred the DNA sequence for creating Insulin into bacteria which secrete it as a waste product); how the majority of antibiotics are made (same process, just using bacteria to produce penicillin, etc.); how Premarin is made to help with menstural dysregulation. So, we have been using gene technology since the 1950s and have saved countless lives and/or prolonged the lives of untold numbers of people who would have otherwise died quite young.

As a psychiatrist, we now know that many emotional disorders have a genetic predisposition, and current medication and/or therapeutic interventions do NOT cure the diseases, only manage the symptoms (like Insulin does NOT cure diabetes, only manages most of the symptoms). With genetic therapy, there is hope of not only providing better management of many physically based illnesses (body and mind), but the real possibility of cures and prevention. Also, using gene technology, transplants may be possible using a person's own stem cells to create the necessary organ or tissue, reducing the need for donors and increasing the chances of success by reducing or eliminating the risk of rejection.

Answer 3

We are! and therefore we must know why and all is fare when
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