The Pros And Cons Of Stem Cell Research

Embryonic stem cell research is a highly debated and sensitive topic.  There is a lot of good that can come from researching this technology of stem cell research because many people all across the globe would benefit from it.  The United States will soon fall short while other countries are already using this advancement if we cannot come to a logical conclusion on this vital issue.

Stem cells get their name from the fact that they are basic cells that other cells develop from. They are capable of developing into a wide range of cells. Stem cells could potentially be used to grow new cells to replace the cells that were destroyed or damaged by

Stem cell research and use is good because it can cure over 56 diseases that could be deadly. Also it can replace damaged cells, it can even cure blind people's eyes. Then there is always a dna match so it will always work. Finally it is able to treat treatments faster that normal drugs and medicine such as parkinson disease.

Did you know that there are people who decides the fate of the future? Who gives human beings the right to play God? To decide who lives and who dies. There comes a time where we have to ask ourselves, how much of our lives will we let the government control? Embryonic stem cell research should be discontinued because our future is being decided by regular humans who make several mistakes.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research are pluripotent stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst. I believe that the use of Embryonic Stem Research is beneficial to society because these cells have unlimited potential. They can allow permanent repair to failing organs by injecting healthy cells into the damaged organ. They also can used for finding and preventing cures for cancers, Parkinson’s disease, birth defects, spinal cord injuries, and strokes. However, Stem Cell Research is a controversial topic, especially when referring to Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

. However, embryonic stem cell research is also generally considered to have the greatest potential for delivering medical and scientific breakthroughs, since they are even more flexible (so to speak) and undifferentiated than adult stem cells (see Bongo and Richards).

Stem cells are cells that have the potential to become almost any cell in the human body, during the early developments of life. Stem cells have the possibility to generate all of tissues within a human as well. Each stem cell can either stay a stem cell or become a more specialized cell. The stem cells that are unspecialized are capable of renewing themselves or possibly being induced to become organ specific cells or tissue cells with special functions. Most stem cells have a constant supply to replace other cells that are injured, diseased, or even aged.

There are pros and cons to stem cell transplants. I believe the pros outweigh the cons in stem cell research and is very beneficial in the end. Stem cells provide potential for finding treatments and cures to diseases including different cancers, diabetes, spinal cord injuries, Alzheimer's, MS, Huntington's, Parkinson's and more. Embryonic stem cell research is one of the most controversial researches.Recently there has been a success with the research, “Professor Mats Brannstrom, carried out the first womb transplant in 2014 which allowed a Swedish woman to give birth to a healthy baby boy. Since then he has undertaken nine more procedures resulting in a total of five births.”

Many issues that have arisen with stem cells are mostly ethical. For many, the act of using human embryotic stem cells for research – no matter its age – is unsettling, but the solution that has risen for us is the possible development of an iPS cell to a human embryo; if this is ever completely the case then the main issues that have caused the halt of the research, and for it to be ethically/morally incorrect would be ridden.

There is a lot of controversy about laws and beliefs in respect to stem cells, specifically embryonic stem cells, regarding contraception, abortion, and in vitro fertilization.

Using embryos for research is referred to as embryonic stem cell research and it mainly focuses on stem cell lines (Hug, 2015). These cells have been taken out of human embryos which come from the inner mass of blastocyst (Kington, 2009). They have the ability to divide without differentiating for a long period of time when cultured and are also known to grow into cells and tissues that form the three primary germ layers (Kington, 2009). The resulting research and their uses are the topic of consequentialism debate concerning both intrinsic and extrinsic values. The consequences of their use include the destruction of the embryos and therapeutic cloning (Hug, 2015). Although their use can have devastating results, there are some positives to

According to John A. Robertson, the first embryo stem cell research was conducted on mice in1981. James Thomson from the University of Wisconsin – Madison was the first scientist to work on an embryo stem cell from a human being in 1998. This was a start of something that a lot of researchers were waiting to happen; “The ability to culture human ESCs in the laboratory was an important breakthrough because it opened the door to understanding and controlling human development and thus to cell replacement or regenerative therapies in humans” (191).

Some of the positives from stem cell research include helping cure diseases that have been devastating to people, test drugs more safely, organ transplant, help quicken research, and many more benefits that will be discussed later on. The other side of the spectrum is people against the research because of the ethics of it. Some people believe that is not

Pros of stem cell research is the fact that it can cure diseases, and possibly provide a cure for some cancers. The cons of the therapy is that it takes a life to do it.

). To opponents, stem cells are harvested to make tissues and organs for others from embryos farm just like corn when it is harvested, collected and shipped. To opponents, embryonic stem cells research is like the selective breeding of people that resulted from the ethical slippery slope of the human eugenics. To opponents, women’ eggs are used as factories and human embryos are used as raw materials. On the other hand, to proponents, stem cells are the stringent component for repairing the engine of life. To proponents who support the United States’ stem cells research, Europe and Asia have made United States left behind the competition unless it shifts quickly to grab the science for its own advantages. To proponents, it is better for embryos to contribute for the development of medicine instead of the death or the deep freeze’s fate that is waiting for them by Bush policy (Furcht, 92-93).