It would be difficult to live in United States and not have heard about stem cell research and cloning. Stem cell research and cloning offers various opportunities for developing new advanced medical therapies for many diseases and new way to discover fundamental questions of medical science. Stem cells are unspecialized cells that can self renew indefinitely and also differentiate into more mature cells with specific functions. Research on human embryonic stem cells however is conflicting issue due to different views held in our society about the legal and moral status of the early embryo.
Stem cell research through cloning is really a good idea; it will help us to rebuild all types of cells and stem cell treatments will help in situation like nerve cell damage caused by stoke, degenerative conditions involving damaged brain cells, e.g. Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease and diabetes, by restoring insulin-secreting cells. Stem cells could allow drugs to be more easily tested without any need of using laboratory animal as a proxy.
Researchers should be allowed to do research on human embryos left over from infertility treatments with the permission of couples for whom the embryos were created. In the normal course of events, those materials would throw into the garbage. I do not believe that pro-life advocates have a reasonable argument or stance or as long as the “spare” embryos are being used for research. Al Gore, Democratic Party leader, said:
“Stem cell research is ethical because it uses embryos donated by fertility patients who would have destroyed them anyway. Couples commonly create more embryos than they need in trying to produce a child.” (Web, 1)
Stem cells are obtained from early embryos, fetuses from pregnancy terminations, and adult tissues and umbilical cord blood. At the moment the only source of stem cells that can grow into all types of cells.......
