Charli Davis
Donna Folmar
Med Law 101
May 7, 2012 Researchers believe that stem cells hold the key to incurable diseases such as, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, diabetes and many others. The benefits of stem cell research have such a great outcome that it out weighs the ethical issues at hand (In Stem Cell Information. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,2012). Pro’s Critics against stem cell research argue, that the ethical issues do not justify the benefits, that a life is a life and that should never be compromised (The real Promise of Stem Cell Research, Dr. David Prentice: HeathDigestNews.com).What these critics do not understand, is that, in the future stem cell research can allow scientists to test a number of drugs and medicines with out carrying out tests on humans and animals. The drug can be tested on a population of cells directly (stem cells.nih.gov/policy/2009guidelines.html). Funding President Bush announced federal funding for stem cell research in August 2001, six years later in 2007 a banned had been placed on the funding bringing most researchers to a hault.
In March of 2009, President Barack Obama, lifted the ban on federal funding for stem cell research (www.action bioscience.org/biotech/chapman.html,2011). Many critics that are against stem cell research became angry that their tax dollars where going towards funding for something they thought unethical. If the researchers could only make these critics seee the good that can from fetal stem cells, far out weighs the oppositions arguments.. Potentially, thousands, even millions of lives coud be saved from devastating diseases. In conclusion, stem cell research is one of the new frontiers and scientists should have the opportunity to fully explore it, with out limitations. Fetal stem cells are an incredible discovery and hopefully someday in the future can save thousands of lives. There are no valid scientific arguments to say that they shouldn’t be used. Overall, there is no reason to eliminate fetal stem cell research.