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is there any ethical issues behind the adult stem cell research? any debates? is there any thing negative about the research?
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Very tough question. The Short answer is that yes there have been some break throughs based on adult stem cell research. The ethical question comes in how we harvest the cells for research. If we are forcing prisoners to sign over their bodies for experimentation upon death, I have a problem with it. If people are willing their earth remains to research institutes for study, I have no problem. The stem cells are received as a result of an adult exercising free will.
The research is fine (I have diabetes).
But, it is the way in which they Harvest the stem cells that bothers me.
I can honestly say that if I had no choice but to accept a cure from the death of an infant, I'd die first from my disease.
And anyone, no matter how crippled they might be (this means your Christopher Reeves types) and they accept the killing of an innocent infant for their own life.they can go to hades in a wheelchair.
the problem with stems cells is they're harvested from human embryos...
an embryo develops into a child and the child has the right to a chance at life...
the stem cells are a chance to sustain a life that already exists...
can anyone really say that one life is worth more than another?
that a potential life is worth more or less than an existing life?
and at what point does an embryo stop being another cell and start being human?
some say the second it's born, some say in instant the sperm and egg meet...
if stem cells are harvested from an embryo the embryo (to my knowledge) dies, so if you harvest stem cells from an embryo that's developed enough to be considered alive therefore human therefore has basic human rights, then if it survives it's grevious bodily harm, if it doesn't it's murder. if you harvest then before it's considered alive therefore not yet developed enough to be human and have basic human rights then is it still ok to take the stem cells and destroy it before it gets the right to exist.
it's a tricky kettle of fish, throwing in the (slightly extreme) ideas that if it's ok to take stem cells from an embryo before it has a chance to be alive there's no difference to letting it develope into a child and then remove a vital organ from it that it needs to survive (like the heart, both kidneys or the entire liver and so on).
the negative thing about the research is the destruction of possible human lives.
the debates are when an embryo is considered alive and when it's considered human and if it still has human rights before it it's alive and/or human.
with the ethical issues being disrupting the quality of a possible life of the child if the embyro could possibly survive, or the destruction of the entire possible human which would be a form of murder in many people's eyes.
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