Stem cell research? Is it really destroying a life?

Question

Personally I feel that stem cell research is good. We need to find ways to cure diseases and not just treat them. I feel that stem cell research is not destroying a human life because it doesn't have a conscience. It is not wrong. My Fiance's father and has Parkinson's Disease and her grandfather died from complications of that disease. I am with Michael J Fox all the way to finding a cure. I want to know everyone elses opinion out there about Stem Cell Research.

Answer 1

Yep I'm with you! I think it is important to cure living people of such terrible diseases. Besides, the embryo isn't a living person at this stage anyway. Bush really needs to get his priorities right.

Answer 2

The notion that Stem Cell Research is destroying life is a creation of the Republicans and the church.

SC can be obtain lots of ways, the least of which is killing a life. The benefit of it all far outweighs the bad press the Neo-Conned are giving it.

Answer 3

Stem Cell research is a sin! Unless I am dying then go ahead and give me the new liver it helped to produce =) LOL!! I am pro Stem Cell research all the way!!!!

Answer 4

Stem cells can be taken from umbilical cord blood. No one has to die to get them. Even if they were harvested from aborted fetuses, the fetuses are already dead. Stem cells don't have to become "people", just tissue.

Answer 5

Welcome to the 21st Century. Stem Cells can now be created from skin cells, thus taking away the entire "loss of life" argument.


http://www.drugresearcher.com/news/ng.asp?n=81514-university-of-wisconsin-madison-kyoto-university-stem-cells-embryo-fibroblast-skin
http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/hartley/2007/11/21/the-end-of-the-stem-cell-debate/