Stem cell controversy Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Stem Cell Research Funding.

Stem cell controversy Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Stem Cell Research Funding.
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Stem Cell Research Funding

Summary: There are two major concerns of those who oppose ESC research. The first concern is the close relationship between abortion and the destruction of embryos. Anti-abortionists, the biggest group in opposition to ESC research, believe that life begins at conception and therefore the destruction of the embryos is actually the murder of a human being. If the government were to fund the destruction of embryos then every taxpayer in America would be an accomplice to the "murder" of the embryo.
How Far Should Government Funding of Embryonic

Stem Cell Research Go?

On August 9, 2001 President Bush announced that he would allow limited federal funding for embryonic stem cell research under certain conditions. Under Bush's new ruling only the 64 stem cell lines that were already in place before August 9 were to be funded. He said that the government would not fund further destruction of embryos to create more lines. Also stem cells could not be obtained from embryos created for that purpose or from the left over embryos from in-vitro fertilization. However, private sectors would be allowed to continue producing new lines through the destruction of embryos.

In ............... paper "Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy" he/she shows the President's desire to uphold the pro-life movement. It is the President's goal to respect human life in it's earliest stages of development:

I also believe human life is a sacred gift from...

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