2007-08-10 09:25:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
not a thing. It's the religious zealots who think they have the right to legislate morality. As long as it's from a life that would not have survived otherwise, I think it's a great thing.
2007-08-10 09:29:52 · answer #1 · answered by iluvthechair 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The issue with stem cells has multiple pitfalls.
The first is which route to go. Embryonic or Alternatives.
If you go embryonic you have the most research already funded and performed to make a rational choice. The downside is that you are stepping on the toes of what many believe is POTENTIAL life. That potential life would be sacrificed without its permission which is unethical.
If you take alternative means of harvest, such as umbilical cord blood, adult fat cells and other. Then you have less research done and funded, You have more risk in failure until studies are done. But you have no ethical concerns.
The labs and companies that have already invested a huge sum of money in the embyronic research are pushing to get their product to the market so they can in turn make a profit. Fair enough in a market economy. But it has all the ethical baggage of if we took homeless people off the streets and harvested the organs for the people that need them. Not a great way to make a living, but that stops few people when corporate greed rears its ugly head.
So you have to choose between expedient measures (the end justifys the means) or through patience to bring about the alternative means to the same standards as the embyronic.
Myself I choose to be patient, forgo the ethical issues and have full grown sentient human beings make the choice to wait and not have the end justify the means.
2007-08-10 16:35:56 · answer #2 · answered by moudoku 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure there is nothing wrong with stem cell research they can do it without having to use aborted fetuses which is sick anyway. But if you are really into saving lives you should really think about shooting yourself and then they can harvest all your parts and you could save a lot of lives in fact I know of one couple right now who really are in need of a new heart for their little girl that actually care about their children and babies for that matter (fourteen abortions). You sick little twit of a penal drip. I take that back I would not want any of your parts going to anyone you probably have to many diseases from sleezing around so much. Somebody should have aborted you that way we would not have to be subjected to your sick twisted thoughts.
2007-08-11 17:38:43 · answer #3 · answered by sarah76 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think people's biggest problem is the idea that they are creating a human life just to end it in order to harvest the stem cells. I agree on that front, but [I'm not very educated in this area, so I could be wrong] can't you get stem cells from umbilical cords? Everyone has one of those at birth, and very few are saved. I see no problem with making it common practice to save them for research. It's a win-win, a human life isn't being sacrificed, created, or harmed, but it could, as you say, save millions.
2007-08-10 16:31:49 · answer #4 · answered by hthr_jacobs 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Stem Cell research - in and of itself isn't a problem. Just the fact that stem cells are often harvested from unborn embryos (often times destroying the embryo in the process) or the embryos are created (artificially inseminated) in order to harvest them for research.
Some folk feel that life begins at conception -- so, they're creating "babies" and killing human beings when they harvest these cells.
It's the same argument they have against abortion.
2007-08-10 16:35:06 · answer #5 · answered by Eric C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agreed with the above answers.
Consider this...those who are opposed to stem cell research on moral grounds that it is not right to destroy human life, even at such an early stage in development can not seem to apply that same logic to invitro-fertilization. By the same standard, human life is also destroyed during the IVF process.
Logically, if you seek to ban stem-cell research, you would also have to pass a law banning IVF. However, suddenly, the millions of people in this country who have children as a result of IVF would suddenly find themselves strongly opposed to such a law.
2007-08-10 16:33:21 · answer #6 · answered by jjsocrates 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The fact that, until recently, researching stem cells involved taking the lives of fetuses. Now other methods have been discovered, and research is slowly taking place.
Here's a big post about the benefits and problems that were associated with it. It kind of turned into a debate:
http://www.nerdcouncil.com/forum/index.php?topic=334.0
2007-08-10 16:31:45 · answer #7 · answered by magiscoder 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is wrong with stem cell research, it could kill millions of new lives?
2007-08-10 16:34:21 · answer #8 · answered by College Kid 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
people are afraid of it leading to human cloning. if the technology gets into the wrong hands, there might be a similar situation to that of hitler's trying to create the perfect race.
2007-08-10 16:36:41 · answer #9 · answered by Katie A 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's just well-meaning religious zealots trying to set back scientific thought by 500 years. Nothing serious...
2007-08-10 16:33:12 · answer #10 · answered by lithiumdeuteride 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋