Stem Cell Research

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This paper discusses the ongoing debate over stem cell research and examines the controversial issues associated with the technology. The paper addresses three fundamental questions concerning stem cell research which deal with whether or not stem cell research can deliver what it promises in terms of cures and fixes, whether an alternative and better medical technology for cures can be found and when it is that life actually begins.

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"Even more promising are cord blood cells, which are usually taken from a placenta after birth. These cells, which are much more common and less ethically questionable than embryonic cells, already have many advocates and success stories to their name. A University of Pittsburgh
research team hails these cells' abilities to produce different types of tissues (Price, "Advance Made"). And ordinary citizens such as Adam Susser and Hwang Mi-Soon provide the most compelling evidence of all: themselves. Adam, born with cerebral palsy, spent his entire youth
imprisoned by blindness and an inability to speak. Halfway across the world, South Korean Hwang lived in a similar prison. For twenty years, she lived the physical and emotional entrapment of paralysis. Now, these two individuals are now living the life they always imagined but never dared to dream. Adam is seeing the world for the first time. Hwang does not have to rely on physical herapy for exercise anymore-she can just walk around her neighborhood. What unites these two very different people?...."

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