The University of Nebraska’s Medical Center describes stems cells as, “an unspecialized cell that has yet to “decide” what type of adult cell they’ll be,” (What Are Stem Cells). This idea drives the research of biologists and medical professions because it grants them the opportunity to improve degenerative diseases and aid to new finds of medicine. Although many doctors believe stem cells could potentially help solve many of todays medical mysteries, a vast number of the population believe that stem cell research is highly unethical. People find stem cell research to be unethical because its research involves destroying human embryos. Essentially, there are three types of stem cell research: Adult Stem Cells (ASC), Induced Pluripotent Stem
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James Till and Ernest McCulloch published, Radiation Research, “which proved the existence of stem cells: cells that can self-renew repeatedly for various uses,” (Timeline). Due to this discovery, physicians and researchers believed that they had found the tool to help them solve many of the medical mysteries. However, it wasn’t long until the U.S. government decided to regulate their practices. Human embryonic stem cells and government policy intertwined after the Supreme Court ruling of Roe v. Wade. After the court ruled that abortion was between a woman and her doctor, “the U.S. government banned use of federal funds for research on embryos, fetuses and embryonic or fetal tissue, while permitting largely unregulated research in the private sector,” (Wertz). Due to the lack of funds by the government, medical research was limited and was not able to progress forward in test trials or determining the researches capability. Congress went as far as even creating The Dickey-Wicker Amendment of 1996, which furthermore, “prohibited the creation of a human embryo to be destroyed, discarded or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death,” (Timeline). Yet in August of 2000, the National Institutes of Health compiled its final guidelines for funding human embryonic stem cell research, explicating writing to, “promise new treatment and possible cure for debilitating diseases and injuries,” (NIH News). The establishment of these rules have caused for embryonic stem cell research to remain an issue under the federal level. Such as how California and New Jersey allocates funding for the project in 2005 but how reports distinguish that only a certain amount of trials under federal funding were ethical under Bush’s administration. In terms of politics, it shows how the federal government is lacking in its duty to come up with a common solution. The more involved the government gets, whether it favors the interest of some
James Till and Ernest McCulloch published, Radiation Research, “which proved the existence of stem cells: cells that can self-renew repeatedly for various uses,” (Timeline). Due to this discovery, physicians and researchers believed that they had found the tool to help them solve many of the medical mysteries. However, it wasn’t long until the U.S. government decided to regulate their practices. Human embryonic stem cells and government policy intertwined after the Supreme Court ruling of Roe v. Wade. After the court ruled that abortion was between a woman and her doctor, “the U.S. government banned use of federal funds for research on embryos, fetuses and embryonic or fetal tissue, while permitting largely unregulated research in the private sector,” (Wertz). Due to the lack of funds by the government, medical research was limited and was not able to progress forward in test trials or determining the researches capability. Congress went as far as even creating The Dickey-Wicker Amendment of 1996, which furthermore, “prohibited the creation of a human embryo to be destroyed, discarded or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death,” (Timeline). Yet in August of 2000, the National Institutes of Health compiled its final guidelines for funding human embryonic stem cell research, explicating writing to, “promise new treatment and possible cure for debilitating diseases and injuries,” (NIH News). The establishment of these rules have caused for embryonic stem cell research to remain an issue under the federal level. Such as how California and New Jersey allocates funding for the project in 2005 but how reports distinguish that only a certain amount of trials under federal funding were ethical under Bush’s administration. In terms of politics, it shows how the federal government is lacking in its duty to come up with a common solution. The more involved the government gets, whether it favors the interest of some