Embryonic Stem Cell Research Argumentative Essay

Stem cells are cells that have the ability to differentiate into many different types of specialized cells. However, stem cells are not where the controversial and ethical debates come from (NIH). Embryonic stem cells are the potentially life saving, while life ending, solution that flares controversial debates from scientists, religious leaders, politicians, and everyone in between. Embryonic stem cells are stem cells derived from an human embryos that are around five days old and have the ability to reproduce through cell division as well as differentiate into any type of cell (NIH). Embryonic stem cell research has great rewards with the possibilities of cell based therapies and cures of more than ten life altering diseases, but also has great consequences of cell rejection and the destroying of human embryos (NIH). The argument about stem cell research involves the parties of …show more content…
Frankenstein says, “ I had worked for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body” (Shelley 51), which is a very controversial topic and pushes the ethics and morality of science to its limits. Stem cell research pushes the boundaries of science by taking the lives of embryo’s without voices for the benefit of science. Both Frankenstein’s project and embryonic stem cell research are connected by using someone else's life to benefit another life. Frankenstein used dead body parts to help benefit, create, and sustain his creature, while stem cell research uses the cells from embryos to benefit and sustain the other recipient. Lastly, embryonic stem cell research and Frankenstein’s experiment both use science to cause destructive to others lives. Embryonic stem cell research causes destruction by end lives before they can even be born, while Frankenstein’s experiment uses science to give birth to a creature who lives only in misery and causes