Embryonic Stem-Cell Research

Embryonic stem-cell research is a big issue today. Embryonic stem-cell research destroys the stem cells of early embryos to create any cell in the human body like a bone marrow. It all started in the mid 1800s when scientists discovered that some cells could generate other cells. In 1994, President Clinton prohibited federal funding on research to support the creation human embryos for research purposes. Federal laws were put in place to prohibit the Department of Health and Human Service(HHS) from funding human embryo research. In 2001, when President Bush was elected, funding were given for the sole purpose of research only. Many congressman opposed the idea of human cell research and the views of HHS, but the National Institute of Health(NIH) thought otherwise and authorized the funding of human stem cell research. After this decision was made many bills were sent in for the prohibition of cloning and stem-cell research.

Embryonic stem-cell research is a problem today like abortion is a problem today. Killing a human embryo is killing life. Stem-cell research strips away their future just like abortion. No one should be able to determine who gets to live or who gets to die. Stem-cell research has brought some advancements to our medical knowledge but is it really worth killing someone? For all we know that embryo would have been a human genius, hero, etc. The embryo could have been the human to solve our wetland problems or pollution problems. It is a problem now because it is life.

The appropriate level of government to handle my problem would be the national level. The national level provides the funding to stem-cell research. Without funding from the NIH, stem-cell research would not last long. This is practically murder with intent to research. My special interest group will form petitions, speak our voices to the congressmen and NIH. The institute of health funds the killing of human embryo? That is not very healthy. We will find a representative and sponsor them to get our issues heard. With a person in power, we will definitely get some support for our problem. We will turn up in every media we can.

This issue can be resolved by stopping the funding of Embryonic stem-cell research. Bring back the federal laws to prohibit HHS from funding stem-cell research. I propose we discuss the actuality of stem-cell research. I propose we discuss with congress how killing is outright wrong, and it is in our laws that say killing is wrong, whether fully developed human beings or not. This issue, an issue to us for many years, can be resolved by simply asking ourselves “who would that embryo become if kept