Stem Cell Immoral?

Stem Cell Immoral?

Take a life to save another is the motto for scientists pushing stem cell research on. Stem cell research is the study of “stem cells” which are cells found in the inner mass of an embryo. So what’s all the commotion for these microscopic critters? Scientists believe that the cells can heal some diseases like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s by putting them in a patient.

The cells are highly adaptable and can slowly heal or replace dead or infected cells in the body. But these pros overlook the cost of obtaining the cells. Death. In order for the cells to be examined in a Petri dish, the donor will not be able to survive. Plus the scientists’ donor of choice has brought up more controversy. Embryos. Humans life forms that are destroyed in the name of science.

According to the religious orthodoxy, an embryo symbolizes life, and the fertilization process of the embryo is symbolic as well. Thus many pro-life advocates have protested this procedure.

“When we begin making those kinds of judgments, we’ve gone well past our authority. It’s not morally right to experiment on jail populations or death row inmates. Why then let scientists kill human embryo’s to advance science? My problem, and that of pro-lifers and the pro-life community, is that we believe life begins at conception. If you bypass that concept and create a human embryo, indistinguishable from the conceived one, you’re still there.”--Matt Bartle,