Stem Cell Research: A Look at the Ethical Debate of Federal Funding Stem cell research has been becoming a larger national issue of public concern in the last few years. ... There has been considerable discussion and analysis about the moral and ethical issues toward the use of stem cells in biotechnology. ... Federal and states governments have been trying to determine how to handle this dilemma for years. ... However, during the Reagan administration, the Ethical Advisory Board lapsed and the funding quit. ... This, however, does not provide any ethical or medical regulations to ...

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The desires of researchers to utilize embryonic stem cells in their research has opened an ethical debate about whether harvesting stem cells from frozen embryos is tantamount to murder or abortion since the eggs were first fertilized with the intention of implanting them and letting them mature into infants. ... (Rosenberg) The main moral dilemma of cloning lies in deciding when these embryos are considered human children, if at all. ... (NEJM) What then are the ethical considerations of using frozen embryonic stem cells for research? ...

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Four years ago, my Uncle Creighton was diagnosed with a rare blood disease called multiple myeloma, which is a cancer affecting plasma cells. With no available treatment for his unfamiliar disease in Chicago, Creighton moved to Houston to undergo an experimental stem-cell procedure that saved his life. The cancerous Plasma cells, which are a kind of white blood cells that produce antibodies, accumulate in the bone marrow and disturb production of red blood cells, casing a number of problems.i Like most cancer treatments, his procedure was painfully slow. Since the cancerous plasma cells accumu...

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