Who is against Stem cells being used from unborn embryos to save lives? What people are against that?
971448
I agree that stem cells hold the answers to many different diseases. I do not see anything wrong with using embryos.\nHere is the problem, not all groups can agree to this due to religious reasons. \nSome believe a child is a child at conception, others believe in the 2nd trimester. Its very complicated and unfortunate. I believe that the embryos that will not grow (there are many) should be used for research. That way maybe both groups will be ok.\nI also believe that people should not put other people down for their beliefs. I understand from both sides.
238795
Stem cells are primal undifferentiated cells which retain the ability to differentiate into other cell types. This ability allows them to act as a repair system for the body, replenishing other cells as long as the host organism is alive.\n\nMedical researchers believe stem cell research has the potential to change the face of human disease by being used to repair specific tissues or to grow organs. Yet as government reports point out, "significant technical hurdles remain that will only be overcome through years of intensive research."\n\nThere are three types of stem cells: embryonic, adult and cord blood. Right to life and many religious groups have ethical problems with embryonic programs because it involves destroying surplus embryos from IVF programs.
843153
yeh i'd accept it, and i'd donate my eggs to find the cures if it was legal here. Those who are against stem cell research and cause all the problems to medical scientist trying to find cures, should also give up their right to be saved when the cures are established.
73516
What bothers me more is that so many are pushing for Fetal Stem Cells, and not Umbilical Stem Cells.\n\nUmbilical Stem Cells are benificial, and do not carry any of the stigma of the Fetal Stem Cells.  And at this time, they are simply thrown away.\n\nI would like to see more research on Umbilical Stem Cells.  Once the techniques are perfected, then Fetal ones can be looked at for the problems that Umbilical Stem Cells can not cure.
1178172
You are right, if pro-lifers are going to preach that fertilized eggs are living humans, then they should treat and value them as such. Therefore, if possible, I'd save the 1,000 fertilized eggs.\n\nHowever, I'm sure I'd receive a lot of heat from the media, and pro-choicers. The decision to save the 1,000 fertilized eggs over a child would definitely anger them.
900029
I don't know - nor will we ever truly know unless the research is done.\n\nEven if there is a remote chance that the possibilities suggested for stem cell research will come about, this research has to be carried out - the potential for saving human life and removing some horrible complaints is stunning.\n\nAnyone who understands the first thing about it must support the research. Only the ignorant oppose it.
947970
I agree...I believe that in the proper hands, this could solve many health issues. As with everything else, even good things in the wrong hands, can get ugly...but that's not reason enough NOT to benefit society.\nI was asked many years ago to participate in a survey of 12 people in a room, ( including a man in a religious order) and we all gave pros and cons on why we thought they either should or shouldn't do stem cell research...Most of us concluded that it would be a benefit to society.
1145051
The Catholic Church is not just against abortion, it is pro-life in the widest sense. This is often called a "Consistent Ethic of Life."\n\nThis pro-life stance stresses the highest regard for dignity of human life including that of:\n- All people in objecting to unjust war and nuclear arms.\n- The unborn in objecting to to abortion, in fitro fertilization, frozen embryos, embryonic stem cell research, and cloning\n- The elderly, sick and dying in objecting to assisted suicide and euthanazia\n- Prisoners in objecting to the death penalty\n- The poor and minorities in supporting social justice issues.\n\nWith love in Christ.
656095
For cloning organs/tissue but against cloning human beings
520513
because they are idiots \n\nI cannot say it any simpler\n\nthe life of a small embryo is worth far less than the potential to save the lives of countless living people.
957884
Very thought provoking question! I am suprised that the responses you have received so far have been either negative or incomplete. It does pose a serious problem for conservative minded people. If the creation of a "Frankenstein" embryo by the hands of man is a religious abomination as you postulate, then supporting its existance is an equal abomination. But then comes the right to life issue. So far the responses seem to have been "well, too late to do anything about it". I think those responses are cop outs.\n\nI think that, should God make available to man the technology to perform such acts, then God must want us to be capable of doing it, otherwise he would prevent it.  Interestingly, it calls into question fundamental religious beliefs of whether or not this might be a "test" by God...\n\nI really dont have an off the cuff answer. This has provoked a lot of questions in my mind, and I have to sit back and think about it carefully for awhile. Thanks for the great question.
928810
NO WAY.  Morality is used to push things on us like gun control, environmental policies, animal rights, etc.  SCREW THAT, I'm tired of these fascist "liberal" weenies forcing their views down our throats.\n\nLove jack\n\nPS HAHAHA, stem cell could have saved "billions of people" - what a laugh.  Are you sayhing that all 6 billion people on earth will now DIE because of Bush?\n\nStem cell research is still continuing.  The government just doesn't want to fund research that uses human embryos or fetuses.
14531
at this point there are more pros to the research (currently being investigated) but we must be careful not to take away(OR create a market that takes away) a human life inorder to improve our life. thats what people are ultimately afraid of this research turning into.which would be you being cured of a desease by doctors injecting into you part of an unborn dead fetus or a cloned one.
950312
Sure, because opposition to stem cell research is based on the belief of many people that clusters of cells in petri dishes are human babies in the eyes of God.
391732
As a "choice", vs. a medical decision, it's actually a violation of human rights.\n\nA lot of people think this is about religion, but it's not. It's about human rights. Scientific DNA testing would prove that the fetus is: A) a human being B) a different individual than the mother (so it is NOT a part of the mother's body), and C) that it is alive. To end the life of a fetus is to end the life of a living, individual human being. A culture proves its worth by how it treats the most vulnerable people within its society. Here in America, we seem to have no trouble killing these vulnerable humans. We freak out about animal rights, but human rights are thrown in the garbage along with aborted fetuses.
292014
Most so called Proponents of Abortion will say, "I believe its a woman's right, but I would never do it."  I don't think anyone deep down can say they truly believe abortion is moral.  We live in an immoral world where the accused have more rights than the innocent victims.\n\nAbortion is a multimillion dollar industry.  The doctors are paid a bundle to get rid of a "problem" and the embryo is sold for stem cell research, when there are other more humane resources for research.\n\nThey also are now either currently or about to start creating embryo's to use in stem cell research.  Creating life to kill and salvage for medical advancement.  \n\nWe live in a sick society.
839521
First off, many Republicans are not against stem-cells.  They are, however, against government money paying to create new stem-cells.  They feel that the government researchers can work with the pre-existing lines.  Most Republicans support allowing private corporations to fund the research and create the lines, they just do not believe the government should be doing it.\n\nSecond, it is alleged that there many be research that will lead to breakthroughs.  However, there have been numerous other "breakthroughs" such as bone marrow research and cloning that didn't do a fraction of what was expected.