2007-05-21 04:33:07 · 11 answers · asked by Chery C 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
In the U.S. it's currently illegal, so no. In other places, it depends a great deal on how the embryo's stem cells were obtained. In my admittedly limited understanding, they need to be harvested just before the embrionic stage, and are taken from cell clusters that were never destined for anything else. There are some very touchy ethical and moral boundaries that the issue skirts up to; and so far all potential benefits are hypothetical and untested. It's a very new area of research, and it will be several years before we really know what stem cell are and aren't capable of.
Edit: Katjha (from below): Sorry, I'd shoot you an email but you don't take 'em. Not to be argumentative, but I thought even privately funded research was legally limited to existant cell lines; and those were all now contaminated. Maybe I'm mistaken?
2007-05-21 04:35:45 · answer #1 · answered by Beardog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I disagree. If the embyro can substitute right into someone then its no longer ethical. the respond above mine tries to declare its ethical via comparing 2 issues that can't be in comparison. a female's era is organic. The Embyro has no skill to alter right into a residing person as a results of fact no intercourse/duplicate and fertilization of an egg exceeded off. An Abortion is killing something that has existence and hence that's like homicide. comparing a era to abortion is like attempting to study a organic dying (from ailment or previous age) to homicide or a motor vehicle crash. If the stem cells from a embyro have been amassed after a miscarriage or a era then that could desire to be ethical. Abortion for stem cells isn't ethical.
2016-11-25 21:43:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a hotly debated topic; my person views are no, it is not ethical as the embryo they are using for stem cell research could have developed into a human being if given the opportunity.
Sadly, a workaround in progress (at least in the U.K. at present) is using bovine eggs (cow eggs), removing their genetic material, inserting human cells (such as from a person's skin) in a cloning type capacity, then harvesting THOSE stem cells for research, which is still just as hideous, if not more so.
2007-05-21 04:44:14 · answer #3 · answered by bottleblondemama 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes it is... the embryos are not going to be used for anything, they are going to be destroyed anyway so why not use them for something good- now if they were aborting babies out of the womb for stem cell research that would be different, but these are in test tubes- they are not ever going to be a life
And to clear up the first response.. it is NOT illegal in the US.. the government just won't fund it... what the President vetoed was Federal Funding for it... they can do it, they just can't get funding
2007-05-21 04:40:12 · answer #4 · answered by katjha2005 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No,it is professionally unethical.May be can consider using cord blood instead for stem cell research!
2007-05-21 04:43:18 · answer #5 · answered by utu-utu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if it wasn't created for that purpose, and would have been discarded if not used for that purpose. An embryo is not a human, so if it can be used to help people, it would be unethical to not do so.
2007-05-21 04:41:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
An embryo cannot survive outside the womb, thus it does not qualify as life.
No more than cancer (a cluster of growing and expanding cells) does.
2007-05-21 04:37:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
If the baby is going to be aborted anyway why not make something good come of it and possibly save someones life. So in my opinion it is ethical.
2007-05-21 04:36:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
No.. but some people don't care about ethics.
2007-05-21 04:36:03 · answer #9 · answered by kf 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
One that is not going to be use, Yes.
2007-05-21 04:36:10 · answer #10 · answered by Reported for insulting my belief 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋