Stem Cell Research
Ashford University
Alicia Lanier
Philosophy 200
[ June 11, 2012 ]
Sundie Goulding
Stem Cell Research has burst on the national political scene in the United States only within the last decade. The Stem Cells are very special types with the potential for developing into any one of the 200 or more different types of cells found in the human body: Skin cells, nerve cells, liver cells, blood cells, and h potential raises the heart cells, For example. This potential raises the possibility that stem cells may be used in bring about revolutionary changed in medicine, drug testing, and a number of other fields of research.
The Ethical Dispute which is the Opponents of research holds that human life that begins as soon as an egg is fertilized, and they considered a human begin. They therefore consider any research on stem cells to be necessities the destruction of a human embryo to be morally abhorrent. Some opponents of hesc also argue that research on stem cells obtained from adults is just as promising and renders hesc that research is unnecessary most scientist, however, dispute this claim, citing great potential in the field of adult stem cells that several drawbacks as compared with hecs’s which they continue to advocate funding for both sides of the conflict of stem cell research.
Stem Cells in general have the remarkable potential to developing into many different cells types in the body during the early life and growth, In addition in many tissues they serve as a sort of internal repair system, dividing essentially without the limit to replenish other cells as...