I'm just curious, but is anyone here against Stem-Cell Research? I was reading a few pages back, and I noticed a mini-discussion on SCR. I, for one, am for Stem-Cell Research, since articles and various other tidbits and stuff say that it could help find a cure for Cancer, and something bigger to me atleast, finding a cure for Multiple Sclerosis. Also, do you agree with Embryonic Stem Cell Research? If you don't know what it is, it's basically taking cells from an aborted embryo. So, I'm just wonder if anyone is against it, and why? If you're not, please feel free to explain why you're for it. EDIT: Added another discussion topic, this time about Embryonic Stem Cell Research.
I support it because my mother suffers from multiple sclerosis, and stem-cell research may be able to find a cure for it. Maybe not for my mother, but maybe for generations after her. Also because other cures can be found, like a cure for cancer, or maybe even the common cold. Who knows? We'll never find out if it gets banned.
It's a small world after all. Mine does too. [/b][/quote] Yeah. I guess "suffer" was the wrong word to use. She doesn't really suffer, but she has the beginning (very, very beginning) stages of it.
Yeah. I guess "suffer" was the wrong word to use. She doesn't really suffer, but she has the beginning (very, very beginning) stages of it. [/b][/quote] My mother was diagnosed about 3 or 4 years ago. She has to get a shot every Monday, and every few months, she has to get steriod shots, I believe. Yeah. It sucks. For all of us, actually. If your mother has the beginning stages, it'll only get worse from here, I think. My mom was fine when they first told her about it, but then she started to go numb in her left side alot, and was so tired she could barely drive me to school. Don't mean to turn this into a MS topic, though.
I'm for stem-cell research. I don't know too much about it but I don't think it promotes abortion. I think we have a more promising future with stem-cell research with regard to cures for diseases. Since I'm pro-choice anyway, I don't have any problem with stem-cell research.
I am for stem-cell research. As an article Odation linked to awhile back pointed out, there may be negative social side effects (greater separation of the rich and poor) but I don't think research that has a strong potential to do good should be stopped just because of "maybes." There are loads of articles at http://www.stemcellresearch.org/facts/index.html if anyone's interested.
That's what the Manhattan Project said when they split the atom. But despite that comment, I think stem-cell research would greatly benefit everyone. For all those who are afflicted with chronic diseases, it would be a great relief to be rid of such things.
i am allfor any kind of medical research especially if it is done in the states.my little boy suffers from a condition called dermatomytosis,which is probably more well known to those of you who live in the states, in england it is extremely rare.Apparently it is similar to muscular dystrophy, as it is a muscle wasting disease and the body also fights its own immune system. With it being so rare here especially in juveniles no funding is available for research.my sons medicine reads like a pharmacies stock list n yet he has stunned all his specialists, docs n all around him who had him stuck in his wheelchair for the next 10-15yrs at least, by no longer using it at all. The main force behind him pushing to get out of it was believe it or not LINKIN PARK and some crazy thing he had to dance everytime he heard them. I should mention he is 9 at the end of this month and was 4 when he was struck with this.so whilst i have gone on a bit(or a lot!) research is my only hope and i suppose many other peoples as well of a cure being found
I agree. Doesn't seem like a bad side, why would anyone be against it? [/b][/quote] One word: MORALITY.
One word: MORALITY. [/b][/quote] Whats more immoral? Doing research on some fetus to save tens of thousands of lives, or saying to someone with a disease "Sorry, it sucks you have that disease. But its immoral to find a cure for you, so you're going to have to suffer until you die." Again, typical conservative mindset: caring about themselves and no one else.
Whats more immoral? Doing research on some fetus to save tens of thousands of lives, or saying to someone with a disease "Sorry, it sucks you have that disease. But its immoral to find a cure for you, so you're going to have to suffer until you die." Again, typical conservative mindset: caring about themselves and no one else. [/b][/quote] I know, but that seems to be how most conservatives justify their views. If it isn't moral, then they're against it. And killing an innocent is, by the Bible, immoral. I'm not saying that I take that view, I'm just saying that that's why people are against it.