stem-cell research Options

[smile4me]

do you support stem-cell researching? why or why not?
should federal funding be given to these researchers?
do you support embryonic or adult stem cells (or both)?

[sammi rules you]

i don't think anyone has the right to decide what is morally acceptable for other people to do. each and every person has their own set of morals, different from anyone else's and people have the right to make their own choices. not everyone is going to bow down to one person's set of morals. if a person thinks it's morally acceptable for them to use a lab to create a kid because they want their DNA to be in their child, then so be it. you may not like it, and wouldn't do it yourself, and that's fine. but you don't have the right to tell them it's not right and to stop the couple from doing so.

[ghetosmurph]

Yes they discovered to have the same potential but potential means just that... a chance. Embryonic stem cells are easier to identify and isolate than adult stem cells, that significantly increases the chance of finding a cure. Time is a HUGE factor. To use adult stem cells from a patient's own body for treatment of a disorder could take to long to grow an efficient quantity of cells, that risk you are taking is many lives that could have likely been saved. Adult stem cells may contain more DNA abnormalities and expected errors made in DNA replication during the course of a lifetime.

Yes time is a huge factor.... and adult stem cells are already being used and effectivly treating many diseases... The lives are being saved, right now, and ASC research is getting very little funding. ASC research is so much further than ESC it isn't funny, if funded correctly ASC research would eclipse ESC 10 times over.... Adult stem cells may have more DNA replication erreors however, if you look into it, in the trials they have done with ESCs on animals, ESCs have a much higher rejection rate than ASC's..... The body recieves the ASCs much better, one of the reasons ASC research is so far ahead, and now that ESC has lost any advantage it had b/c of the ability to transform ASCs the reseach should be done on how to get the transformed ASCs to start fixing these problems. The ASC's have a much lower rejection rate meaning that once they harness the potential powers of stem cells ASCs would be better and safer for using on patients. People are already being cured by stem cells and ASC research is showing that it dosen't have to be done with the use of embyos..... ASC's could take too long to grow an efficeint quantity if cells but people deserve the chance to live.... With ESC reasearch at where it is, would you sacrafice the lives of people that we have the power to help now in order to do a to of research on something else that has the same potential, higher rejection rate, and is nowhere near clinical use???? Use the Funding somewhere where it is helping people now, seeing as there are no really major advantages that ESC research has over ASC anymore.... Just because the general public believes that ESC's are going to be the salvation and cure for a plethera of human diseases, legislators are putting the money there, taking it away from people that it is actually helping

Oh and on the morality issue......

i don't think anyone has the right to decide what is morally acceptable for other people to do. each and every person has their own set of morals, different from anyone else's and people have the right to make their own choices. not everyone is going to bow down to one person's set of morals. if a person thinks it's morally acceptable for them to use a lab to create a kid because they want their DNA to be in their child, then so be it. you may not like it, and wouldn't do it yourself, and that's fine. but you don't have the right to tell them it's not right and to stop the couple from doing so.

Ok then you believe everybody has the right to decide what is morally acceptable for him or her and noone should have another's morals pushed upon him correct?? OK then answer me this question: Was it morally acceptable for the Alqueda people to fly the 747's into the twin towers??? They believed that according to thier sacred laws they were commiting the highest act of giving one's life for religion.... they believed they were doing the will of Allah, therefore, do we have her right to try to stop them??? According to your statement, we don't. Why should they bow to our set of morals, they should have the right to decide for themselves..... if they want to kill innocent lives we don't have the right to tell them it's not right and keep them from doing it..... You may not like it, and wouldn't do it yourself and that's fine....... They should be able to make thier own set of choices...... right??? There has to be a point where we draw the line and say, under no religion can that be considered morally acceptable. And if you pick where innocent lives are killed as that line, such as we did in the 9/11 attacks, you must realize that abortion contreception, birth controll, ESC research, all falls under that category. They are the same thing, the only difference is that mass murder isn't socially acceptable and abortion is.....