There are many situations today in modern medicine, where ethics and medicine conflict. One conflict that is relevantly big is embryonic stem cell research. Stem cell research in the past decade has become very popular. Essentially, embryonic stems cells are cells derived from embryos and they can help in the use of medicine. Under President Bush, research of stem cells was illegal, and now President Obama has made it legal. I believe that stem cell research should be legal. I believe this because stem cells can save many lives, and will create medicine that is useful for humans. Although it can be a touchy subject, because some believe that the process of extracting the cells murders that person, I believe that they should be legal. In my opinion an embryo that is never develop will be a waste if it is not used for medicine. I believe that both sides are represented well, but I favor in the use of stem cells.
A website that I found, which had both sides of the argument was www.allaboutpopularissues.org . In this website, they had many good arguments about both sides. The pro side in this website is the most compelling, because the positives that it mentions are very persuading. Although there are some decent arguments pertaining the negatives, since I am already more convinced on the positives it really made the most sense to me. Overall, embryonic stem cell research can be a very touchy subject. With looking at the negative and positive arguments, I felt that I was more for stem research rather than against.
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