The body is made up of 210 different kinds of tissues, and stem cells are the cells that make up and originate those tissues. Stem cells are unique in the way that they can form more specialized cells, but they stop there; not being able to form a full human being. Stem cells are different and of a lesser value than the embryo. This idea seems almost inconsistent with the fact that even though they aren't equal, destroying the embryo is the most common and best found way to obtain the stem cells. This debate weighs both the pro's and con's of this research, and concludes that stem cell research is wrong because it goes against the morals and oaths of our country. (Reese, Charley).
There are many reasons for the use of stem cell research in the United States. Stem cells can be replicated and used continually over and over in numerous amounts of studies, and they also can be used to save lives and cure diseases. There are many diseases like diabetes and parkinson's that occur because of the death or abnormality of just one cell, which as already pointed out could save hundreds to thousands of lives. Also, if an unlimited amount of human cells and tissues are made researchers have more to work with helping them to test new drugs in a way they weren't able to before. Another reason stem cell research would be positive is because they could possibly take the cells and grow whole new organs for people in need of transplants. Along with the reasons listed above new research shows that stem cells in adult tissue and the use of stem cells from bone marrow or umbilical cord tissue could be used instead of the embryo, solving the problem of killing an unborn life. Finally, researching material like this will allow scientists to just better understand the processes of development and cell biology, possibly finding even more cures to different cancers or birth defects. The pro's of this research seem great, but when you get into the ethical and moral side of this case, there is a lot to be argued.
These cells are derived from human embryos, aborted fetuses, and even embryos of genetic clones, if possible. ... In human embryos, they sometimes discard the unused ones, starting an issue of abortion. ... Why does the Catholic Church go against the destroyed embryos? The embryos are viewed as a living being. Life starts after conception and conception happens before the creation of the embryo. ...
Embryo transfer in cattle has gained considerable popularity with seed stock beef producers. ... ' 'Walter Heape performed the first embryo transfer in Angora rabbits in 1890'' (J.C. ... 'Embryo Transfer in Beef Cattle'). ... 'Embryo Transfer and American Milking Devon Cattle'). ... 'Rancher uses embryo transfers to obtain 'right kind of cattle'). ...
When one of those single-celled embryos divided into two cells, the first step in development, the scientists quickly separated the cells, creating two different embryos with the same genetic information. ... When Hall put the artificial coating around the cloned embryos they began to grow and develop. ... Many reacted against it and the scientists who experimented with human embryos. ... Human Cloning : the process wherein human embryo are allowed to be divided and then separate them and allowed to developed into two embryos with identical genes which could become identical human beings...
The embryo as a person: the embryo constitutes a legal person from the moment of conception. The embryo as property: the young in vitro embryo is a form of biological property Scientifically, it is at conception that a biological entity is created with a genome distinct from that of either parent. ... To view the in vitro embryo as property likely means that it will be the parents-donors of those gametes that gave rise to the embryo in whom property rights will be vested. This gives rise to a host of complex legal issues, including which of two parents can claim custody over the in vit...
Most people agree that no testing should take place if the embryo is older than fourteen days, before this the fertilised egg is known as a pre-embryo, however the views that an individual holds on this question will largely determine their view on embryo research. ... If testing on a few "spare" embryos could save thousands of lives, isn't the immorality of embryo research void? ... The question of embryo research depends upon how Christians view the embryo. ... They are against the practice of embryo research and want it stopped. ... No research involving embryos is therefore accepta...
Most of the issues concern the rights of humans to control both their bodies and the embryos that can be created from their sex cells. ... The November 1998 isolation of special cells in the early human embryo called Human Embryonic Pluripotent Stem Cells created a major political and ethical debate in 1999. The cells, which will be isolated predominantly from frozen human embryos or embryos made through cloning, seem to have almost unlimited power to produce new human cells of almost any type. ... The use of human embryos, which would involve destroying the shell of the embryo while keeping ...
At any time during the lifetime of the person, even while it is still an embryo, it is immoral to increase violence upon it. ... During the process of in vitro fertilization, there is only a success rate between 10-20% of each embryo which is implanted into the uterus (Schooyans, p.27). This fact alone states that for the remaining 80-90% of the time, the fertilized embryo is aborted from being born. ... If three embryos are implanted, the success rate does not become 30%, there is still a 10% success rate for each implanted egg. ... So by disposing of embryos which were not implanted and ...
The fused cells divided just like a normal fertilized egg and formed an embryo that was genetically identical to the donor frog. ... The cell was grown in vitro until it divided and became an embryo. ... In addition, there have been a lot of objections raised regarding the use of embryos to clone mammals. ... Scientists were hoping that they could clone mammals without the use of embryos (Beddington 3). ... The egg began to divide and when it became an embryo it was placed into another sheep. ...
Many embryos are frozen in laboratories as a product of in vitro fertilization. Scientists are arguing that some unused embryos will not even survive during long storage and many others are just destroyed. And a number of embryos are already donated to science through private funding why not through government funding also. ... First, are these frozen embryos human life, and therefore, something precious to protect. ... Scientist argue that a five day old cluster of cells is not an embryo, not yet an individual, but a pre-embryo. ...
