The U.S should allow Stem-Cell Research

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Should the United States Allow Stem Cell Research

From scientific obscurity to moral and ethical pre-eminence , stem cell research or more specifically embryonic stem cell research , has risen to become one of the major ethical and moral hazards in the 21st century . The controversies are linked to the potentialities carried by this highly advanced technology . At the basic , the controversies are driven by the fear that stem cell research may be used to clone human beings as a way of providing designer

stem cells whose uses are as wide as the potential of the technology (Lind Tamas 50 . Controversies range from the need to offer protection to the sanctity and respect for life together with a set of associated ethical and legal considerations On the other hand , the technology possesses the ability to conquer so many debilitating diseases and conditions . It is on this latter basis that I 'll pose my support for the need for the government to allow stem cell research to go on

Just four years ago , Mr . Steve Rigazio was a normal , happy young man operating his business with the enthusiasm and ambition so common among young successful entrepreneurs . Now he forms the statistics of people diagnosed with Lou Gehrig 's disease a devastating disease that affects the spinal cord nerve cells , causing muscles to wither and die off quickly . Just like everybody else diagnosed with this condition , the doctors gave him 18 months of life . Two years after diagnosis...