Ethical Issues In Stem Cell Research

Ethics is a sub-discipline of philosophy which is basically concerned with morals and defining right and wrong behaviour. Research ethics involves the application of ethical principles to many fields involving research including human experimentation, animal experimentation and academic research. Many of these fields of research have different ethical issues, for example the ethical issues academic research mainly consist of plagiarism and falsifying data. Human medical testing has very different ethical issues such as voluntary informed consent. Voluntary informed consent was first put forward by the Nuremberg Code which is a set of research ethics for human experimentation that were created after the horrific and deadly experiments conducted

Many people view this as destroying a potential for life to futher scientific research and knowledge. A lot of the opposition to stem cell research comes from the moral belief that human life begins at conception and some see it that destroying an embryo for medical research or even to treat another human is morally the same as killing a human child or adult for research. Many people with these views are strongly religious Roman Catholics or Orthodox

this damage will have devastating consequences for future human generations all other life of earth yet we continue to use fossil fuels. This is for a few reasons, firstly we are so reliant of them that it will be impossible to completely change to renewables overnight . fossil fuels are still the cheapest form of energy available so why would individual people and business chose otherwise to put money into renewable research,, well governments around world have realised the danger of global warming and they know an overnight switch is impossible so the have implemented taxes on fossil fuels and inefficient use of them and put this money into renewable energy research, also provided grants and tax breaks for people and business that are switching to renewables. these actions will slowly make renewable energy more cost effective and appealing to everyone and will move the world away from fossil fuels and towards renewable green energy sources. Similarly with stem cell research i think the potential medical benefits of mastering stem cell therapies is just too big. Stem cell therapies have the potential to be able to regenerate all of the tissues in the human body and along with gene therapy could be the most powerful tools in medicine with the potential to treat a