Is Stem Cell Research Right for America?

There are so many benefits from stem cell research. Including but not excluding, cures to a number of diseases, improvements on human life, and more resources in drastic times. I believe that if we spent the time and money needed for this research the improvements on just about everything would be significant. Scientists should be allowed to do stem cell research using human embryos, because it can increase disease survivors, it will use our sources rather than waste them, and it can improve scientific studies.

It can increase disease survivors. Many have died from cancer and other diseases that might have been prevented if scientists were able to do the research necessary. There are two different types of steam cells: Embryonic stem cells, and Adult stem cells. The Embryonic Stem cell can be coaxed into developing into almost all of the 220 types of cells in the human body. They potentially have unlimited uses, such as blood cells, heart cells, brain cells, and nerve cells. Adult stem cells are similar to embryonic stem cells but are limited in flexibility. Treatments have advanced to human trial stage. Some people say that adult stem cells have all the potential as Embryonic Stem cells. Stem cell research has been found to cure many human diseases, like Alzheimer’s, Diabetes, Cancer, Paralysis and more. The government should help fund the research. It can be used to cure Leukemia, and some blood diseases. In 2007 3,484 people have died from Leukemia. (Grantel)

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My boyfriend has diabetes and he will have to get a needle poked into his arm everyday for the rest of his life. There is 1 new case diagnosed with diabetes per every 7,000 children per year. (Nielson) The only cure for diabetes is to rebuild the cells. The cells have completely killed themselves, so they would have to not only repair but replace. If research got to the point that there is a cure for diabetes, that may lead to further knowledge of cures for other diseases. Such as AIDS and Autism. The effect of having diabetes can be critical to your health. The damage that is does can be repaired with stem cells.

So what about Gene Therapy? If we had enough money we wouldn’t have to use human adult embryos. We could make artificial embryos. We would be able to regenerate vital organs. Such as: heart, liver, and nerve cells. There are embryos that just stop growing, and they will just be thrown out. These are just one of many ways to save what we do not want.(Hubert)

Stem cell research will use our sources rather than waste them. There are mothers who will still want an abortion, if it was an option they could donate it to research to keep others alive. It is true that some believe it to be morally wrong, but this is not about what right and what’s wrong. This is about keeping the people we love and care about alive. There are thousands of unwanted embryos; we could be saving someone with them. Even though embryos are usually created in a lab when being used for research rather than grown in a woman’s body, using what we have rather than making new will be more predictive. We currently have a shortage of stem cells; the donations would greatly

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improve numbers. Since 1973, 1,570,163,406 have been lost through abortions (Robertson)

Some women are not able to have healthy babies, this can eliminate genetic diseases. Babies would no longer have to just live with a disease. Women who will have had disabled children and becomes pregnant again and the baby would have the same disease instead of aborting the fetus she could donate it to research. The embryo would

Just be wasted. Most stem cells are collected from embryos that are artificially