The undifferentiated cells of a human embryo often referred to as “stem cells” hold limitless promise for medical research. Theoretically, such cells could cure diseases like leukemia, treat diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, and repair the nerve systems of quadriplegics patients. While stem cell research is not equal to abortion, abortion opponents, however, are attempting to ban stem cell research on the grounds that it is unethical. 
Liberals like president Barack Obama believes that stem cell research should be perused to get remedies to diseases no one has ever been able to treat in the past. There is no reason to object to research conducted on a being that has no brain, consciousness, preferences of any kind, or capacity for suffering.
When a human embryo consists of not more than 64 cells, its cells are, like a young dog, able to learn new tricks and can assume any body function they are taught to. If injected into a diseased kidney, they take on many of the properties of ordinary kidney cells, and may help the kidney to perform its normal function to patients who have been undergoing renal dialysis. This seems to hold for any organ, even any kind of cell. This is exciting medical researchers, because it means that, at least in theory, the cells from an early embryo could cure cancers like leukemia, enable people with diabetes to manufacture insulin, treat Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, and repair the neural diseases like LouGherig’s disease and repair nerves in quadriplegics.
Opponents of stem sell research are often infertile and internalize the pain of wanting to have a baby but cant have one in to scientific breakthroughs. Other opponents have never had diseases that stem cell research could cure or have never lost a dear young mother to a disease like Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or a young son to Leukemia.
But medical researchers aren’t the only ones excited by the prospects of using embryo stem cells. In the United States, 70 members of Congress have opposed a proposal from the National Institutes of Health, the major government funding body for medical research, to sponsor work using human stem cells. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops has been lobbying the Congress to prevent the use of federal money for the research, and when a coalition called Patients’ Cure began to campaign for embryo stem cell research, some sponsors of American Cancer Society threatened to withdraw their support. The American Cancer Society withdrew its support from Patients’ Cure to retain its sponsors.
64 Cells Cannot Suffer
Research on embryos should be prohibited if there is any possibility that the embryo is capable of suffering—but no one would argue that an embryo consisting of 64 cells could be capable of suffering. We are talking about a few dozen cells here, not any differentiated cells. A developed brain and nervous system is a pre-requisite for a capacity to suffer. Apart from belief in immortal souls, it is sheer species-bias that makes scientific advancement that would benefit us all impossible. Give stem cell research a chance and change the way the world suffers today.
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How could they suffer? They have no organ formation, no heart to stop, no organs to fail, no cns to feel pain. No nerves to register stimuli, no brain to interpret the stimuli. Many people imagine microscopic babies when talking about this, but they arent. Human, yes. Baby, no. No more of a baby than the skin cells you shed every single day (they ARE human, arent they? but do they suffer as the dry out and fall off… if your skin gets hurt, you feel it… because you have a cns that takes stimuli, sends signals to the brain which interprets as pain. Embryos dont have nerves, dont have a brain to interpret it, and you dont feel the thousands of skin cells you shed in a single minute falling off, do you)??
Here is my thing… No one screams at IVF for killing embryos. ALL the embryos used in embryonic stem cell research are the ones that IVF has killed. IVF is a legal and socially acceptable proceedure that not only is condoned by virtually everyone, but people run to spend tons of money to have it done, and virtually any good medical insurance policy will cover atleast some portion of the cost. While the goal of IVF is to create a pregnancy, it ALSO leaves a long trail of dead embryos.
No one screams murder at birth control. While hormonal birth control utilizes several measures to prevent pregnancy, if they all fail the the last method is to render the uterine lining incapable of allowing a fertalized egg (an embryo) to implant and create a pregnancy. If the sperm gets in and the egg gets out and they meet, the embryo cant implant, dies, and passes with the menstrual cycle.
What doesnt make sense to me is that we have these other socially acceptable medical proceedures that kill embryos, but no one cares until it could possibly produce life saving and quality improving treatments for millions of people, rather than just those seeking to prevent a pregnancy or have thousands of dollars to spend creating one.
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Maybe this will explain it better…. Do you know how a root canal works? Basically, they go in and remove the nerve. No nerve, no pain. These embryos not only dont have nerves, but dont have a brain to interpret the stimuli from a nerve.