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Stem Cells

Published on Dec 13, 2015

Paul Hogan

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STEM CELLS

CONSERVATIVE VERSUS LIBERAL
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STEM CELLS COULD VIRTUALLY HEAL ANY KNOWN DISEASE

  • Stem cells could cure baldness.
  • May even be able to cure cancer, if used right.
  • Could help regrow organs.
  • Could help heal blindness.
  • And could help heal deafness.
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USES FOR STEM CELLS

  • Could cure Alzheimer's disease
  • Could cure Parkinson's disease.
  • Could help heal wounds.
  • Could help spinal cord injury.
  • And stem cells could cure diabetes.
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LIBERAL VIEW

  • It is necessary and ethical to fund research.
  • An embryo is not a human and could be used for higher purposes.
  • The tiny blastocyst has no human features.
  • Experimenting on embryos is not murder.
  • Embryonic stem cells have the potential to cure diseases.
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CONSERVATIVE VIEW

  • Use umbilical cords cells only for research.
  • It is wrong to fund research.
  • Human life begins at conception.
  • The extraction of stem cells from an embryo requires destruction.
  • Embryonic stem cells have not successfully cured disease.
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