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Stem Cell Research- Good or Bad Having the possible cure for certain diseases such as Parkinson’s or Diabetes within our grasp seems too good to be true. But does it come with a cost?

Embryonic stem cell research seems to promise the ability to cure these diseases but what of the lives it destroys. People may say that condemning one embryonic life could save hundreds. But life is life. If we are willing to condemn one small life in a laboratory, wouldn’t it be the same as a life anywhere else. Being against abortion and pro-life does not have to come from a religious view. It is quite simple. Life is life. And a life is just as important as another, no one is more or less important.

If in order to resolve someone else’s sickness, we have to kill an innocent, than can we continuously condemn the innocent and unspoken for? What if in the future, scientists find that the cure to cancer is replacing something vital in the body. They might make clones or use humans and kill them to save those other lives. Isn’t that the same thing? Can we really condone that? There are ways of getting stem cells without condemning an innocent human life, and those are using Adult Stem Cells. In other words, Adult Stem Cells are stem cells that do not come from an embryo or a fetus. They are in our body to repair the tissue from where they come. Some have been taken from a human umbilical cord and bone marrow that have proved to be just as flexible as Embryonic Stem Cells. They are also usually a safer transplant than an Embryonic Stem Cells. Sometimes the Embryo Cells from a random donor are rejected after the transplantation from the body and there is significant evidence that they could cause tumors. Adult Stem cells are rarely rejected from the body after being transplanted because the cells usually come from your own or a familiar body’s cells.