Allowing Embryonic Stem Cells to be Used in Medical Research
Throughout the past decades, researchers from across the globe have been trying to find cures for debilitating illnesses that have ravaged the human race since the beginning of time. Cancer, blindness, and Alzheimer 's disease are just a few of the many that are on the list. The discovery of stem cells, blank cells that can become any type of cell in the body, has been the leading breakthrough in the search for cures. Although they are the solution, the United States’ government and its people are torn on the usage of stem cells. One of the sources of stem cells is an embryo. When stem cells are harvested, the embryo is effectively eradicated. This threat to the embryo, that many believe is a human life, is the cause of bans on research facilities that use embryonic stem cells. Stem cell research, in the United States, should …show more content…
These stem cells pose no threat to new life that may rise from the embryos that are destroyed to harvest hESC (Caplan and Fiester). Stem cells taken from embryos also kill the embryo. Nothing has yet begun to specialize in an embryo, so by taking the stem cells, there is no way for the life to grow and expand, effectively killing it. Over 73 conditions have been treated using adult stem cells (“NIH”). Even with the cells being specialized, adult stem cells have been successful in the areas they can be used. These conditions range from breast cancer to liver disease. The chance of rejection of the organ or treatment is nonexistent since the stem cells used would have come from the person needing the treatment (Caplan and Feister). Life is retained and people are saved using these stem cell therapies. There is no harm to new life, but the lives already here can begin again and live healthily. Adult stem cells are a Pro-Life alternative to using hESC in
Throughout the past decades, researchers from across the globe have been trying to find cures for debilitating illnesses that have ravaged the human race since the beginning of time. Cancer, blindness, and Alzheimer 's disease are just a few of the many that are on the list. The discovery of stem cells, blank cells that can become any type of cell in the body, has been the leading breakthrough in the search for cures. Although they are the solution, the United States’ government and its people are torn on the usage of stem cells. One of the sources of stem cells is an embryo. When stem cells are harvested, the embryo is effectively eradicated. This threat to the embryo, that many believe is a human life, is the cause of bans on research facilities that use embryonic stem cells. Stem cell research, in the United States, should …show more content…
These stem cells pose no threat to new life that may rise from the embryos that are destroyed to harvest hESC (Caplan and Fiester). Stem cells taken from embryos also kill the embryo. Nothing has yet begun to specialize in an embryo, so by taking the stem cells, there is no way for the life to grow and expand, effectively killing it. Over 73 conditions have been treated using adult stem cells (“NIH”). Even with the cells being specialized, adult stem cells have been successful in the areas they can be used. These conditions range from breast cancer to liver disease. The chance of rejection of the organ or treatment is nonexistent since the stem cells used would have come from the person needing the treatment (Caplan and Feister). Life is retained and people are saved using these stem cell therapies. There is no harm to new life, but the lives already here can begin again and live healthily. Adult stem cells are a Pro-Life alternative to using hESC in