What has influenced your opinion of stem cell research?
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I am giving a short presentation on people’s opinions of stem cell research. This is a very volatile topic and I’m just wondering where most people have gotten their opinions on the ethics and need for stem cell research. I am an undergrad in Molecular Biology who is graduating in a month and I have worked with stem cells but I’m looking for other people’s opinions. Have your feelings about stem cell use been shaped by church, television, school, magazine and journal articles, or other sources? You don’t have to share your opinion but definately can if you want to. Thanks.
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I am giving a short presentation on people’s opinions of stem cell research. This is a very volatile topic and I’m just wondering where most people have gotten their opinions on the ethics and need for stem cell research. I am an undergrad in Molecular Biology who is graduating in a month and I have worked with stem cells but I’m looking for other people’s opinions. Have your feelings about stem cell use been shaped by church, television, school, magazine and journal articles, or other sources? You don’t have to share your opinion but definately can if you want to. Thanks.
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What’s driving this is that there are two very passionate sides to this debate. On the one hand you have people like Christopher Reeve and Michael J. Fox who say stem cells could cure their diseases and on the other side you have people who say no cure is worth destroying a human embryo. And since stem cells research at this point usually involves an embryo or fetus, that’s where you get the debate. A year after President Bush’s decision on stem cell research, scientists say they are being hindered by federal rules governing the use of embryonic stem cells because access to stem cell lines approved for research is limited. But the director of the National Institutes of Health said the agency is “diligently working” to make more cell lines available. As for myself…I’m against it for the most part.
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