Table of Contents
- 1 Do you think that stem cell research should be allowed to continue from embryos and/or adults?
- 2 Does stem cell research harm embryos?
- 3 Why embryonic stem cells should not be used?
- 4 Why do scientists think it is important to do research using stem cells?
- 5 Why is stem cell research wrong?
- 6 Why should we support stem cell research?
- 7 Should we use stem cells from embryos?
- 8 Why is stem cell research unethical?
Do you think that stem cell research should be allowed to continue from embryos and/or adults?
For the foreseeable future, stem cell researchers agree that research should continue along all avenues, using embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, and reprogrammed cells. Adult stem cells have been proven effective in treating more than 70 diseases.
Does stem cell research harm embryos?
Human embryonic stem cells may or may not possess the innate capacity to provide unique treatments for human disease. But at least for now, live human embryos must be destroyed in the process of creating stem cells.
Why embryonic stem cells should not be used?
However, human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research is ethically and politically controversial because it involves the destruction of human embryos. As a matter of religious faith and moral conviction, they believe that “human life begins at conception” and that an embryo is therefore a person.
Should human embryos be used for research?
Research using material derived from embryos also could be used in the study of normal and abnormal differentiation and development, which could benefit children with birth defects, genetically derived malignancies, and certain genetic disorders.
Why we should do stem cell research?
Researchers and doctors hope stem cell studies can help to: Increase understanding of how diseases occur. By watching stem cells mature into cells in bones, heart muscle, nerves, and other organs and tissue, researchers and doctors may better understand how diseases and conditions develop.
Why do scientists think it is important to do research using stem cells?
Given their unique regenerative abilities, stem cells offer new potentials for treating diseases such as diabetes, and heart disease. Laboratory studies of stem cells enable scientists to learn about the cells’ essential properties and what makes them different from specialized cell types.
Why is stem cell research wrong?
However, human embryonic stem cell (HESC) research is unethical since it results in the destruction of human life for research purposes. HESC research is morally wrong since it is the direct destruction of innocent human life and does not benefit the individual embryo undergoing the research (3).
Why should we support stem cell research?
Why we should use embryonic stem cells?
Embryonic stem cells could be used to make more specialized tissues that have been lost to disease and injury. For tissues that are constantly replaced, like blood and skin, stem cells would probably be replaced directly. Embryonic stem cells could be grown into more specialized cells for screening potential drugs.
What are three reasons that support the use of embryonic stem cells?
Reproductive cloning is outlawed in most countries. Before Bush stopped federal research in 2001, a minor amount of embryonic stem cell research was performed by US scientists using embryos created at fertility clinics and donated by couples who no longer needed them.
Should we use stem cells from embryos?
The use of human embryos for research on embryonic stem (ES) cells is currently high on the ethical and political agenda in many countries. Despite the potential benefit of using human ES cells in the treatment of disease, their use remains controversial because of their derivation from early embryos.