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Embryonic Stem Cell Research: It Is Ok To Be Used To Explore Cures For Diseases
I believe that stem cell research is the next step forward for curing diseases such as parkinson's, diabetes type 1 mellitus,spinal cord injuries etc... Your views please!
 tequila68  14 Feb 2008 14:23
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Duh, stem cell research is ethical, even if it's from an embryo. To start, a lot of embryos that they use for stem cell research are from abortion clinics, so they're going to die anyway. Also, they have no nervous system to feel pain or understand their situation. For those who say that you're killing somebody and ruining a potention life, you are implying two things: 1) that they have a soul, and I believe that you don't get a soul until you are born. What would a ball of cells do with a soul? And 2) that the potential life has a destiny that they can fulfill, which is outrageous because nobody has a destiny. The choices you make everyday affect your future, not some higher deity deciding your fate. That's just communist and taking away your free will, which is the second most important thing God ever gave to us. There are only two people ever created that most likely had a destiny: Jesus and the devil.
 
 bookworm3  20 Nov 2008 00:02
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Hello, I have never understood why people believe that medical research is unethical. It isn't like we are selling our babies, or our slaves babies. I think people are too closed minded on this because the abortion issue has been linked to it.
 
 fairie  23 Oct 2008 21:37
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Of course it is. If they were able to save someone you knew with stem cell research, would you deny them treatment
 
 Tromanator  22 Sep 2008 14:30
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Yes absolutely. You're using rare and precious cells which otherwise would simply be destroyed and using them to come up with treatments which might truly change the scope of abilities of medicine to treat our diseases. An easy choice to me.
 
 Grenache  03 Aug 2008 15:21
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Is this even a question?
Of course its ethical,
they have no self awareness, a bunch of cells,
no nerves, so no pain, or any other feeling,

abortions are legal, so what is the difference?
In the eyes of the bible its murder, but in any educated open minded person, it is a necessity, if we are to ever find a cure for diseases, such as motor neurone disease, and cancer.
 
 martlamb  20 May 2008 20:16
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 The use of embryos is becomming obsoleet and adult stem cell are working just as well if not better with now harm to anyone. As far as the majority of diseases (about 80%) are concerned, there is already ways to heal them, trying to cure them only relieves the symptoms and causes the body to find another, harder way to tell you, you need to deal with something in you life. (again, this is what I do.) But stem cell research will be great for regrowing things or maybe mending spinal cords and such.
by  stever
 20 May 2008 20:35
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Yes we could one day cure the worst diseases. Using embryos does not constitute murder, as it is only a bunch of cells and it is does not yet have a pulse or vital organs.
 
 ibanex_87  06 May 2008 19:00
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The embryos, which are often obtained from donors as unwanted IVF embryos, would be destroyed anyway so why not use them for a good cause?
 
 parnika  27 Mar 2008 13:03
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I also agree with homies first comment yah! If it will help us why not and we aren't killing the fetus we are just using the stem cells.
 
 nelson12  12 Mar 2008 05:34
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 actually the fetus is destroyed, but at the age of 14 days!
by  martlamb
 20 May 2008 20:13
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I strongly agree, with there being increasing evidence that embryonic stem cells have the potential to be transformed into various cell types - heart cells, liver cells, nerve cells, to name just a a few - potentially being able to save the lives of millions of sufferers of various different diseases. The possibilities really are extensive.

Indeed, this is the reason why so much research is currently going into embryonic stem cells, and why we're hearing of the breakthroughs fairly frequently, as they happen around the world.

Hopefully, further research will lead to some sort of widescale implementation in the future, so that the full potential of these remarkable cells can be seen, saving the lives of potentially millions all over the world...
 
 jsh4  14 Feb 2008 19:01
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I think they can do the same thing another way now.
 
 keepmindok  03 Sep 2008 07:50
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It is OK to explore ways to cure diseases but embryonic stem cell research will lead to cloning humans and i don't know about you but it's bad enough having onw of everybody on this earth with 2 or more of some people things could get out of control(and tear the very fabric of time and space and the universe will collapse on itself and kill us all) sorry I'm a little out there but it proves my point to of me would be very bad vary bad indeed
 
 MM92  04 Jun 2008 01:32
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You're killing people here!
Why doesn't anyone realize that when to do this research, you are killing, and it is against the law/the Bible!
 
 im_trumpet  23 Apr 2008 20:02
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 people? what, do you consider a bundle of 50 cells a person? just to put things into perspective, a fleas brain consists of around 50,000 cells.
by  sensai80
 23 Apr 2008 20:06
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