Embryonic stem cell research holds great promise for the future of those suffering from a disease. It could be their miracle waiting to happen. Embryonic stem cells arecell extracted from embryos that can be stimulated to become a specific tissue, organ, or cells with special functions. Embryonic stem cell research should be accepted and encouraged because it has substantial potential uses, the embryos are not an aborted fetus or even close to it, and because it is morally permissible. Looking at the news or on Facebook, you will see all the horribly misconceived information about this research, but these lies and myths that you read about should not be trusted. The fact is people lie. Susan Frank stated that the critics of stem cell
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These embryos can be discarded or donated to research at the couple’s demand if unwanted. Every couple that donates their embryos to research goes through an extensive consent process to ensure that they understand embryonic stem cell research. There are no aborted fetuses in this research. All claims to this are false. These embryos only “come from the four to five-day-old blastocysts or younger embryos” (cirm.ca.gov).
The embryos that are used is a group of roughly one hundred cells. These cells were made in a petri dish and then they were given away to science by the couple whose sperm and egg made them. If these embryos were not given away to science they would have been discarded because they are unwanted. Therefore extracting stem cells from these embryos is morally permissible because they would have been killed and discarded anyways. These embryos are not babies. They have not formed fetuses. They do not or will not have a future.
Critics of stem cell research argue that taking the stem cell from these embryos is morally wrong and unethical but as Jonathan Moreno and Sam Berger say “arguing that a sperm or a