There is only controversy in embryonic stem cells. Religious and political people feel that: The whole embryonic stem cell process, while beneficial to the people receiving the transplant, is deadly to the embryo and future life the embryo would have become. "The use of embryonic stem cells has other challenges like lack of research funds, transplant rejections and chances of unpredictable differentiation and developing tumors." Some questions come up that no one has the power or moral authority to answer. "Is destroying that microscopic dot the exact moral equivalent of driving a knife through the heart of an innocent 6-year-old girl?" There are two different arguments to answer that question. On one side, that dot is already a human with rights, and using the embryo for a transplant-thus killing it- is murder. On the other side, the embryo is not really a human yet; the embryo has no feelings, it has no concept of life, and no consciousness. With those facts in mind, is using these embryos to save a life murder? Every person is entitled to pick a side. Which side are you on...
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"Ethical judgments about the use of embryonic stem cells in research and therapies flow from the status accorded to the embryo. Those who feel that an embryo is a human being, or should be treated as one because it has the potential to become a person, contend that it is unethical to do anything to an embryo that could not be done to a person. At the opposite end of the spectrum, some people have expressed the view that the embryo is nothing more than a ball of cells that can be treated in a manner similar to tissues used in transplantation." STEVE USDIN, introduction to Human Embryonic Stem Cells |
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