Brian Milenki Stem Cell Research
Over the past few decades, there has been countless new scientific processes and break- throughs that improve the health and life of every single person. One of these scientific processes has fallen under the radar in its progress and application in the real world. This is because of a combination of moral, economic, and political conflicts and discussions about it. This scientific process is stem cell research. The progress of stem cell research comes with a many moral and ethic decisions because of principles of how it implemented, many positive and negative economic changes would be apparent if it further developed, and many political problems on the regulation and usage would occur. This is the one scientific advancements could possibly be completely world changing
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A major point was when, President Bush announced that he would limit federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. He said that "this issue forces us to confront fundamental questions about the beginnings of life and the ends of science. It lies at a difficult moral intersection, juxtaposing the need to protect life in all its phases with the prospect of saving and improving life in all its stages." This statement perfectly defines the old conflict of stem cell research. We are sacrificing someone's potential life to make do some tests on their cells for a possibility of making them help someone else's life. We use to think that this was the only way of getting these "magical" stem cells. In 2007, it was announced that two scientists had independently discovered a method of transforming adult cells into a state that resembled an embryonic stem cell, effectively eliminating the need to take