Ethics Surrounding Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Journal Title: Annals of Bioethics & Clinical Applications - Year 2019, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Since their discovery in the early 1990's, Stem Cell have brought the promise of evolutionary and significant scientific and medical research with the prospect that possessed the possibility of radically improving treatments for a host of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, various cancers and other diseases that currently render patients and scientists helpless to combat. With the advent of medical and scientific research, comes the inevitable emergence of the controversy that has accompanied every major scientific and medical advancement. The use of Stem Cell is no different. Those who seek to curtail the use of certain stem cell lines, revert to the argument that has defied many medical debates over the previous decades. The argument, the destruction of human life to create life, is the stalwart philosophical point that all anti-stem cell advocates attempt to make. The purpose of this discussion is to engage in an analysis of the various aspects of the ethical debate concerning the use of stem cells in medical research.
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Ogar JN and Bassey SA*
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