why is the goverement not funding stem cell research?

Question

why? stem cells help people why wont the support stem cell research

and could you give me 3 reasons why?

Answer 1

There is governmental funding of stem cell research. Funding on embryonic stem cell lines has been restricted on ethical grounds, but other stem cell lines are fine.
Note that we don't understand the "switches" that cause a stem cell to differentiate, but this past week there was an announcement of a breakthrough in switching differentiated cells into stem cells, so the whole the whole argument is likely to become moot. In fact, it seems most likely that before the great promises can be fulfilled we'll have to gain enough understanding to make the use of embryonic stem cells unnecessary.
To help you get an idea of the "why" of it, I'll give you an argument in the reductio ad absurdum mode, so please take this in the context of its intent: We could, for the purposes of research into Parkinson's disease, use the substantia nigra from the brains of people who use their brains so little as to produce sloppy thoughts like "stem cells help people why won't the support stem cell research."

Answer 2

Some (not all) kinds of stem cells come from fertilized ova. Some people object to that on moral or religious grounds. Unfortunately, those people have managed to make their religious beliefs part of this country's law.

Other people who object to stem cell research simply have no idea what it actually means. One guy (don't laugh) told me that stem cells only come from male embryos, and that the embryo would have been just fine if people didn't take the cells from its "stem."

Answer 3

I'm a senior citizen on a limited income. I don't want my tax dollars to be spent that way. I don't qualify for prescription assistance and to get coverage on my own would be quite expensive.
Why should the government (my tax dollars)fund stem cell research? Why not the big drug corporations? They certainly charge enough for their medication.

Answer 4

Long ago when America was founded the founding fathers looked back on the history of Europe and saw that mixing politics and religion ALWAYS ALWAYS led to disaster, so they prohibited it. Unfortunately the Republican Party in search of votes made promises to crooked TV evangelists that if they supported the Republican Party and got their marks, their suckers, out to vote Republican, the government would open up the national treasury to them and let them control domestic policy. It worked. The Republicans won, and they have given about $3 billion to the crooked churches, money they were never entitled to and that they knew they weren't entitled to but took anyway because they are crooks, thats why they got in the religion biz, to steal from weak minded feeble minded superstitious fools. And these crooked churches despise science, all science. Why? Because science disproves their superstitious nonsense, it makes people understand that religion is superstition with no basis in reality. And one of the sciences they want to ban is biology, which includes stem cell research. They want total control and they are obscenely greedy.

Answer 5

they are funding it on preexisting stem cells.

Most laboratories performing this research have 2 sides: one side funded by the government and one side funded by the private side.

"The government was established to perform that which private intities should not or cannot do."
Phil Valentine

Answer 6

because it's controversial, and for every politician who votes for giving money, there are 2 who don't. because it is new technology, and most times the government likes to stay with the old technology, because it's a known factor. because they aren't scientists themselves, and think that discoveries end up paying for themselves, so that those scientists who need the money to help advance the medical field can't get it.

Answer 7

many people believe it is morally wrong, or that the scientists are using the tissue to make secret clones.