2007-11-26 00:06:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I support it 100%. And the researchers working with stem cells are already beginning to discover ways to create stem cells without harvesting embryos.
It's science. It's a source of hope for a lot of people. I'd be crazy not to support it.
2007-11-26 00:10:18 · answer #1 · answered by sci55 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have no problem with stem cell research. When you start talking about "embryonic" stem cell research, the ethical questions can't be avoided.
It's not so much that I have some fundamentalist belief that a fertilized egg is already a human being, but rather it is the precedent that it sets. Once you label a fertilized egg as just a piece of tissue that can be experimented on, where do you draw the line? What if they find some "potential" medical value to fetus blood? Do they then have the right to terminate a pregnancy to get that blood?
Once you cross a "line" that was previously considered uncrossable, science has a bad habit of pushing the "line" further and further out.
2007-11-26 09:10:13 · answer #2 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Having little knowledge of stem cell research, I would rather hear and wait for further reports from the scientists on the benefits of such researches. In some ways it seems like we are playing God and I don't think the christian churches will be too happy and will employ every means to ban further researches which may render the bible's teaching as a falsehood.
2007-11-26 09:37:39 · answer #3 · answered by CAPTAIN BEAR 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm apolitical. As you and I have exchanged before, I am very excited about its potential. It is so important that government (especially the federal government) should stay the heck out of it. That means no funding but no banning either. Let private funds be devoted to its development.
This really isn't a political question for me. I honestly think that the research will progress better if the government stays away with all its corruption and inefficiency.
2007-11-26 09:15:57 · answer #4 · answered by Joe S 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Support it all the way it's better to help someones life instead of just throwing it in a garbage can like they do now!
2007-11-26 10:52:33 · answer #5 · answered by sally sue 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I say we should look more into it.With the little I know about it,I really haven't heard too many negative things involved in it.
2007-11-26 08:11:15 · answer #6 · answered by nofear_intrepid40 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋