The Case Against Stem Cell Research

Opponents of research on embryonic cells, including many religious and anti-abortion groups, contend that embryos are human beings with the same rights "? and thus entitled to the same protections against abuse "? as anyone else. They believe life starts at the moment of conception, when a sperm fertilizes an egg, since a distinct organism has come into being. Thus the destruction of an embryo is the destruction of a human life.

Anti-abortion groups also oppose research on stem cells derived from aborted fetuses. They reject the argument that since abortion is already legal and women will have them, that stem cells should be used from aborted fetuses because they would otherwise go to waste.

Pope John Paul II has offered one argument designed to address just these sorts of questions when he wrote:

"Experience is already showing how a tragic coarsening of consciences accompanies the assault on innocent human life in the womb, leading to accommodation and acquiescence in the face of other related evils, such as euthanasia, infanticide, and most recently, proposals for the creation for research purposes of human embryos, destined to destruction in the process. A free and virtuous society, which America aspires to be, must reject practices that devalue and violate human life at any stage from conception until natural death."


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This is why some speak out against it. I think sometimes people do not want to experience natural death so they want to live forever down here. 5 years ago my father died of lung cancer... if we were given a choice to let him go or take the stem cells and be healed.. that would have been a hard decision... I would have probably taken the stem cells.