The Perks of Stem Cell Research SCID is a condition a child can be born with called Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. SCID makes kids more susceptible to catching life threatening diseases and they must be kept in isolation. Over many years the debate over Stem Cell research has been whether it’s a good advancement for medical procedures or if it’s morally unacceptable. Stem Cell Research is a good advancement in medical procedures and has the opportunity to save many lives if successful. Stem Cell Research is when a physician takes the cells from an embryo that have been rejected and use them to help others with different injuries. A stem cell is a cell that can be turned into any type of useful cell some would compare it to a kidney since you don’t need all your stem cells to live. There was a federal law in 1996 that prohibited any governmental and state financing for the research the “destroys an embryo”. The embryos used in these stem cell studies are most often surplus, surplus means they can be …show more content…
94% of those cases were still alive five years later, according to the stem cell research foundation stem-cell research promises to create treatments to help millions of Americans: 58 million with heart disease, 4.3 million with arthritis, 10 million with osteoporosis, 8.2 million with cancer, 4 million with Alzheimer’s disease, 1 million with juvenile diabetes, and 250,000 with spinal-cord injuries. Many say that this is a morally and sometimes even religiously unacceptable because the research often does not work and they still see the embryo as an unborn child. Others say that you are wasting an embryo after it has failed because most of the time they don’t know what the meaning surplus is but according to ABC science online surplus as previously stated is when an embryo can be discarded as medical waste because it did not take in which case it has been donated to the