[tiamarie223]

Ok, I've only posted a few times, but ya'll have helped me more than once figure out my nightmare of a computer. So I know you guys/gals are some smart people. In one of my classes I have to write a paper on embryonic stem cell research. So I wanted to post some questions and see where eveyones head is at regarding the issue. In researching my paper I realized its a very messy situation. So if ya'll would be kind enough to answer some questions, it would help me a lot. Any debate is welcome too.
Do you know what embryonic stem cells are and how they are collected and how they can be used?
Do you know what adult stem cells are and how they are collected and how they can be used?
Do you think the government should help finance embryonic stem cell research?
Do you think people should be able to donate fetilized eggs left over from in vitro fertilization to embryonic stem cell research?
Do you think the collection of embryonic stem cells is immoral or against God?

Thanks!
Tia

[dugq]

Yes,Yes, Yes, Yes, No

[Ciberblade]

I agree with Dugq

[A_erised]

same as Dugg, and Ciberblade

[ChrisJones]

Originally Posted by tiamarie223

Ok, I've only posted a few times, but ya'll have helped me more than once figure out my nightmare of a computer. So I know you guys/gals are some smart people. In one of my classes I have to write a paper on embryonic stem cell research. So I wanted to post some questions and see where eveyones head is at regarding the issue. In researching my paper I realized its a very messy situation. So if ya'll would be kind enough to answer some questions, it would help me a lot. Any debate is welcome too.
Do you know what embryonic stem cells are and how they are collected and how they can be used?
Do you know what adult stem cells are and how they are collected and how they can be used?
Do you think the government should help finance embryonic stem cell research?
Do you think people should be able to donate fetilized eggs left over from in vitro fertilization to embryonic stem cell research?
Do you think the collection of embryonic stem cells is immoral or against God?

Thanks!
Tia

Hi Tia,

My answers are as follows: Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes and NO!!

Stem cell research (SCR) has so many possibilities to help so many people afflicted with many different types of ailment. I simply don't understand people who argue against SCR on religious grounds. Does the bible expressly forbid it? I think it's unlikely. In what way is it an affront to God?

Personally I don't really understand the complaints against it on ethical grounds either, but then I believe that abortion etc are ok in the right circumstances.

Good Luck with your paper!

Chris.

[Chicon]

Originally Posted by ChrisJones

... In what way is it an affront to God? ...

It is not an affront to God if you really mean to help people with SCR.
God gave us brain and thinking, therefore let's use both of them to fight the illness.

[ChrisJones]

Originally Posted by Chicon

It is not an affront to God if you really mean to help people with SCR.
God gave us brain and thinking, therefore let's use both of them to fight the illness.

Well said!

[Fidelista]

agreed! >f

[teengeekgrrl]

Originally Posted by tiamarie223

Ok, I've only posted a few times, but ya'll have helped me more than once figure out my nightmare of a computer. So I know you guys/gals are some smart people. In one of my classes I have to write a paper on embryonic stem cell research. So I wanted to post some questions and see where eveyones head is at regarding the issue. In researching my paper I realized its a very messy situation. So if ya'll would be kind enough to answer some questions, it would help me a lot. Any debate is welcome too.
Do you know what embryonic stem cells are and how they are collected and how they can be used?
Do you know what adult stem cells are and how they are collected and how they can be used?
Do you think the government should help finance embryonic stem cell research?
Do you think people should be able to donate fetilized eggs left over from in vitro fertilization to embryonic stem cell research?
Do you think the collection of embryonic stem cells is immoral or against God?

Thanks!
Tia

A belated welcome to TSG!

My answers as follows:
Yes
Kinda
Yes
YES!
NO!

I don't understand what the big beef about it is if the cells are collected from leftover In Vitro embryoes. What's better for them, to be kpt in a freezer or thrown out, or used for science?

[philip1519]

A poll here won't mean much since the sample is so small. So far I am on the same side as these first respondants. This will get good as soon as the knee-jerkers get involved. The connection to abortion for the purpose of harvesting is too much for many to stomach, however, there are many opportunities to harvest cells from legal and possibly less provocative situations. I'm sure that any one clinic could provide a kabillion cells a week. Many more than would be needed. I wonder if some think that the local cheerleader wouldn't think of having an abortion unless aproached by a scientist holding out a test tube and twenty bucks.

[Fyzbo]

I'm following the trend here,
yes, yes, yes, yes, and NO
would love to be different, but then I'd either be uninformed or just plain wrong.

[tiamarie223]

Thanks ya'll. The controversy over leftovers from in vitro fertilization is that people can adopt the fertilized eggs. But there are more than enough to be adopted and to be used for research. Plus scietists say that they only need a limited number of them because once they have some they can multiply them. The problem is that the strains they already have have been contaminated.

Tia

[sglv]

Do you know what embryonic stem cells are and how they are collected and how they can be used?

Yes.

Do you know what adult stem cells are and how they are collected and how they can be used?

I know what they are, have no idea how they're collected.

Do you think the government should help finance embryonic stem cell research?

Absolutely Not. Why should my tax dollars be spent. Surgury is a fortune, even if you have the best insurance, you still wind up with a bill. Let private industry fund it, they're the ones who reap the profits anyway.

Do you think people should be able to donate fetilized eggs left over from in vitro fertilization to embryonic stem cell research?

Don't have a problem with that. That should be left to the individual donating the eggs/sperm.

Do you think the collection of embryonic stem cells is immoral or against God?

Depends on what they're using them for. If it's to help cure diseases or help chronic illnesses, I don't have a problem with that. I want to believe that God has given us "free will" and brains to evolve as life goes on, if it's to benefit life, then I would hope He would not have a problem with it.

However, if it's to find a way of "cloning" people (which I truly believe is way off in a future I'll never see), then no. I can't speak for God on that. I just know that He gave us life, not scientists.

My only problem with fetal embryonic stem cell research is I can honestly see certain types of people who would get pregnant simply to collect some cash. Considering the amount of abortions annually anyway, why not collect some dough, instead of having to dish it out for the abortion. I would hate to see a young girl say, well, I can have this baby, collect welfare (which I oppose), and have a hard life for a long time, or I can collect some cold hard cash now .... give me the cash.

If you think all they're going to pay is $20, I doubt it.

I don't have a problem with abortion necessarily, but I don't believe that abortion should be used as a means of birth control, and some people go that far. I knew a girl who had 7 abortions b/c she "didn't believe in birth control" and when she got pregnant an 8th time (and she was only 17), they refused to do another, she actually managed to carry the child to term and gave it up for adoption (the father had just been sentenced to prison). Personally, I think she should have decided "birth control" or abstinence, but it wasn't me so the decision wasn't mine. I'm not going to say she's the exception, b/c I really don't know, but I really hope she was. This was before AIDS. Most girls I knew that had an abortion, only had one abortion, but carried the next child.

JMHO!

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by tiamarie223

Ok, I've only posted a few times, but ya'll have helped me more than once figure out my nightmare of a computer. So I know you guys/gals are some smart people. In one of my classes I have to write a paper on embryonic stem cell research. So I wanted to post some questions and see where eveyones head is at regarding the issue. In researching my paper I realized its a very messy situation. So if ya'll would be kind enough to answer some questions, it would help me a lot. Any debate is welcome too.
Do you know what embryonic stem cells are and how they are collected and how they can be used?
Do you know what adult stem cells are and how they are collected and how they can be used?
Do you think the government should help finance embryonic stem cell research?
Do you think people should be able to donate fetilized eggs left over from in vitro fertilization to embryonic stem cell research?
Do you think the collection of embryonic stem cells is immoral or against God?

Thanks!
Tia

Well, Welcome to TSG!

Would you like me to correct the spelling in your thread title?

[tiamarie223]

Yes, Please correct the spelling of the thread. It's driving me crazy!
Thanks,
Tia