What do researchers say to those who believe that life begins at conception, and anything that interferes with the embryo’s development is morally wrong?
Using microscopic embryos that will otherwise be destroyed to create stem cell lines that will potentially help patients with debilitating and deadly diseases is a humane course of action. Most Americans, regardless of their religious or political affiliation, support moving forward with this work. Many people believe that stem cell research – including embryonic stem cell research – represents the best hope for relieving the suffering caused by many diseases that still have no treatments. In fact, some religious faiths consider it immoral not to pursue medical research that has the potential to reduce human suffering. New research and treatments often brings new fears — fear of the “slippery slope.” Change is almost always hard and radical new medical discoveries and treatments often receive a mixed reception from people because of their fears. With stem cell research, people have visions of armies of clones or of part animal, part human creatures and other images from science fictio
