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Arguments Against Stem Cell Research

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STEM CELL RESEARCH is a very controversial topic in today’s time. Not only has it sparked a hundreds of debates it also has been the center of much criticism for its use of human cells. For those of you who don’t know stem cells are unspecialized cells found in living things and are able to grow and rebuild themselves as long as the host is alive. Stem cell research is not worth supporting. Advocates of stem cell research believe that the cells are not equivalent to human life because it is inside the womb even facing the fact that the start of a human life is in the moment of conception. While many people say the use of the cell research is a way to advance medical knowledge and expand treatments, there is no guarantee that the treatments will work. There is limited ability of the adult stem cells to grow in culture for long time and they cannot distinguish from others(Joseph). What this means is that the stem cells do not last long and can not be distinguished from other cells. What 's the point of having them if they don’t last long enough to be of use?
The human life starts at the moment of conception. This means that anything that happens to the embryo from that point onward is the harming of a human being. In fact to get a embryonic stem cell a human embryo has to be disassembled. It is taken apart and given no chance to become a human being. …show more content…

The destruction and use of a human embryo should not be allow to happen. Even if it isn 't fully formed from the moment is it concepted it is a human life and should be treated as such. The diseases and treatments that could come from giving up a human life are not worth it. It is giving up a life for a life. That life may not even be worth it because it takes multiple tries before the stem cells are even suitable for use in medical treatments. Look at how far we have come from the beginning of medical sciences, eventually we will make a reasonable alternative to dismembering human

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Writer of "Perils and Promise: Destroy an Embryo, Waste a Life" , is U.S Representative Christopher H. Smith (Smith). Smith's article topic is about the research done using embryonic stem cells and destroying the embryo after instead of just using adult stem cells for research. He persuades his opinion to the reader in an extremely strong and aggressive tone. Smith makes excellent use throughout his article of all three elements of Pathos: appeals to fear and concern, appeals to emotion, and appeals to emotions and the need for self-esteem.

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Is it right for one's life to be manipulated for the use of scientific research or is it just a evasion on the person's privacy. Henrietta Lacks was a African American with cells that intrigued many people, she was diagnosed with cancer leaving her to be cared for at her local hospital, where she would later die due to the extremity of the illness. While at the hospital she was unaware that the doctors there were experimenting on her taking cell samples from her body, to help find a resolution to multiple diseases. The people who examined Henrietta manipulated her and the rest of her family to gain information on her cellular structure to be ahead of others looking to achieve the same objective. Henrietta Lacks cells should have never been evaluated because it's an evasion of her freedom, a danger to her personal health, and cause conflicts.

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A blastocyst, which is what a five-day-old embryo is considered, is just a clump of cells that has the potential of becoming a human being but just because it has the potential does not mean that it makes it a human being or that it’s alive. If harvesting the ES cell from within a blastocyst can improve the quality of life for living human beings, and then I do not have a problem with that. The current argument is that destroying human embryos is akin to killing

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The goal with fetal tissue research is to find new and improved ways of dealing with diseases. Almost everyone in our country has used a source that has come from the research of fetal tissue. (Fetal tissue, 5) So on the ethics and morals side of the argument any fetal tissue used for research has helped saved millions of people from dealing with diseases such as chickenpox, flu, etc. The argument most people make is that abortion is evil and shouldn’t be supported.

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With certain experimental conditions, stem cells can become a specific type of tissue or organ, so a person with a chronic or life-threatening disease has the possibility of being cured (“Introduction: What are Stem Cells, and why are they important”, nih.gov). This research that scientists are doing is groundbreaking. Scientists already have extraordinary evidence that stem cell research is conclusive in some areas. Stem Cells are capable of dividing and renewing themselves for long periods of time; they are unspecialized and can give rise to different specialized cells (“What are the unique properties of all stem cells?”, nih.gov). Why can embryonic stem cells proliferate for a year or more in the laboratory without differentiating, but most adult stem cells cannot (“What are the Lasiter 2 unique properties of all stem cells?”, nih.gov)?

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There are pros and cons that comes in sets of good and bad. Stem cell research can potentially help threat a range of medical problems. which does humanity a favor and brings us closer to better treatment and possibly cure a number of diseases such as (Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Birth defects, etc) Stem cells have a specific job even

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Though I do not agree with most stem cell therapies there are valid pros and cons to this research. Stem Cell research and therapy can save lives. A stem cell can be made into anything which seems like the options would be limitless. The very obvious negative in my opinion is the fact that members of the scientific community just decided to disregard the value for human life and are harvesting stem cells from living embryos and just throwing them away with no regard for the human life. All life is valuable and created by God.

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Stem cell treatment, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and Cloning are critical procedures in medical science, promising life, health and healing to patients in ways that earlier generations have never imagined. With further development, these procedures can be the key to maintaining human life, and treating diseases and illnesses that still have no cure. Several moral issues, however, are present. For the following discussion, the focus is on stem cell research and the morality of using, creating, destroying and/or cloning human embryos for the purpose of research and the need for guidelines to govern human embryonic stem cell research. Stem Cells, In Vitro Fertilization, Cloning and their Importance Stem cells are classified into three.

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Even though they’ve been studying for years they still don’t know everything about stem cells. This shows how complicated it stem cells are. Answering the questions from earlier would be a great scientific breakthrough, hopefully someday these questions do get answered. Another question that they should try to answer could be can you manipulate the cells to differentiate to specific cells. Eventually scientists will learn more about what causes stem cells to differentiate.

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Many questions arise when discussing such controversial issues (Jaenisch et al.). Some of these questions include "the central, apparently unresolvable issue of the moral status of the human embryo, which raises questions about which perspectives should govern appropriate pluralistic policy" (Jaenisch et al.). There are also questions as to how to weigh the "possible scientific breakthroughs" with the "less quantifiable values and perspectives" (Jaenisch et al.). While there are decent arguments on how the copying of a human being could be

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