Question:Can Stem Cell Modification cause unrealized consequences?
Claim: Stem Cell modification can cause unrealized consequences
Evidence 1: “While the positive therapeutic outcome was celebrated as a breakthrough in gene therapy, a serious drawback subsequently became evident. By February 2005, three children out of seventeen who had been successfully treated for X-linked SCID developed leukemia because the vector inserted near an oncogene (a cancer-causing gene), inadvertently causing it to be inappropriately expressed in the genetically-engineered lymphocyte target cell.”("U.S. Department of Health and Human Services").
This means that unexpected consequences can happen because of the modification they tried to make. 3 out of 17 means that 17% of …show more content…
If the embryo is a human person, killing it to benefit others is a clear-cut evil. It treats a distinct human being, with his or her own inherent moral worth, as nothing more than a disposable instrument to be used for someone else’s benefit.” (“Ten Problems with Embryonic Stem Cell Research.”).
This quote explains everything that is wrong with stem cell research. Killing not born babies yet to make another baby immune to one virus. So for every embryo they kill they make a few embryos immune to cancer. If this became a normal thing there would be thousands for embryos dead, and they would just keep needing more. There are laws now to protect working on embryos but not pre embryos.Pre Embryos are embryos that are under 14 days old.
Evidence 3:”Additionally, the insights provided by cloning technology destroy the scientific and legal basis of distinguishing a pre embryo from an embryo, the popular distinction made at 14 days after conception. This is significant because this distinction determines the handling and treatment of human life less than 14 days old, which is so basic to all ESCR.”(“Moral Objections to Embryonic Stem Cell
Claim: Stem Cell modification can cause unrealized consequences
Evidence 1: “While the positive therapeutic outcome was celebrated as a breakthrough in gene therapy, a serious drawback subsequently became evident. By February 2005, three children out of seventeen who had been successfully treated for X-linked SCID developed leukemia because the vector inserted near an oncogene (a cancer-causing gene), inadvertently causing it to be inappropriately expressed in the genetically-engineered lymphocyte target cell.”("U.S. Department of Health and Human Services").
This means that unexpected consequences can happen because of the modification they tried to make. 3 out of 17 means that 17% of …show more content…
If the embryo is a human person, killing it to benefit others is a clear-cut evil. It treats a distinct human being, with his or her own inherent moral worth, as nothing more than a disposable instrument to be used for someone else’s benefit.” (“Ten Problems with Embryonic Stem Cell Research.”).
This quote explains everything that is wrong with stem cell research. Killing not born babies yet to make another baby immune to one virus. So for every embryo they kill they make a few embryos immune to cancer. If this became a normal thing there would be thousands for embryos dead, and they would just keep needing more. There are laws now to protect working on embryos but not pre embryos.Pre Embryos are embryos that are under 14 days old.
Evidence 3:”Additionally, the insights provided by cloning technology destroy the scientific and legal basis of distinguishing a pre embryo from an embryo, the popular distinction made at 14 days after conception. This is significant because this distinction determines the handling and treatment of human life less than 14 days old, which is so basic to all ESCR.”(“Moral Objections to Embryonic Stem Cell