ipl-logo

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Persuasive Speech

868 Words4 Pages

Embryonic stem cells are the cells which potentially provide life to a blastocyst and lead to the creation of a fetus, or baby. Recently there have been many experiments conducted to extract embryonic stem cells from the blastocyst. With this new research, has also come a huge controversy. Although embryonic stem cell research is practiced with good intents and is designed to find cures for people already suffering or living a limited lifestyle due to health disabilities, what is not always mentioned is that another human’s life is being destroyed in the process. These innocent babies, whether it be considered legal or not, are being plucked from their mother’s womb to be used for nothing more than a science experiment. Also, the rate of success in …show more content…

Some classify the state of an unborn child by scientific terms such a “fetus”, rather than a “baby” to make it seem more impersonal, therefore, making it more acceptable to
“experiment” on. According to Assertion 4, there should be no “question of consent” about embryonic stem cell research because a “human being is being killed” to “benefit another”.

Owens 2
(Assertion 4) Why punish a baby for your mistake, why punish a baby for someone else 's sake, why punish a baby who cannot escape? What right do we have to rip a baby from their mother’s womb, provoke their earthly life, and experiment on them like a lab rat? The irony is some people protest the ethicality of animal testing when there are babies being tested on each day.
Even Dr. Seuss recognized the fact that “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” Therefore, even though this baby was “legally aborted”, it has no way of giving its consent to be used for experimentation. There is more than just the state of the aborted baby involved in embryonic stem cell

Show More
Related
460 Words | 2 Pages

An investigation took place, led by the Medical Board of California, on the doctors who saw Nadya during her pregnancy. It turns out that Nadya created all of her fourteen children with in vitro fertilization while she was unemployed. In this case study I feel like there are many ethical dilemmas that need to be addressed. I believe that the first problem we encounter is the physician who implanted the embryos.

Read More
842 Words | 4 Pages

Do you think the five-day-old embryo should be accorded the status of a human person? If not, why not? If so do the potential benefits of ES cell research outweigh the ethical objections? I do not believe that a five-day old embryo should be accorded the status of a human being.

Read More
558 Words | 3 Pages

“Fetal Tissue Fallout, R. Alta Charo, J.D., September 3, 2015” In this article R. Alta Charo states that we have a right to use fetal tissue for research and therapy (Fetal Tissue, 1) The article goes into how a lot of people find this to be a moral issue and a matter of the conscience and explains how the antiabortion activist that don’t agree with the research are actually benefitting from the fetal tissue. They argue that the research supports abortions but have taken part in receiving vaccines and therapy that comes from the research. R. Alta Charo begins by talking about the argument over the antiabortionist activist who pretended to be a research company representative and gave out false, edited information from a Planned Parenthood video that goes over the services they provide.

Read More
247 Words | 1 Pages

His outlook on the matter is, if we as humans believe that killing another human being (i.e., adult, child) is wrong, but we do not understand why, then why is it acceptable to kill a fetus when we do not know if it is considered a living being (Jones & Kooistra, 2011). Judith Jarvis Thomson, another

Read More
1040 Words | 5 Pages

In this paper, I will argue that intended parents, not gestational carriers, should have the right to decide whether the carrier continues to gestate a fetus or not in cases where the fetus has a severe, life-threatening physical or mental deficit (Cohen 2013). The gestational carrier, such as Crystal Kelley, gestates a fetus for a couple or potential parent and has no genetic tie to the child, unlike a surrogate (Byrn and Snyder 2005). In Crystal Kelley’s case, the intended couple wanted to abort the fetus because it had severe health defects such as holoprosencephaly and heterotaxy, in which the brain is not divided into two hemispheres and the internal organs are displaced (Cohen 2013). However, Ms. Kelley was unwilling to abort the fetus

Read More
173 Words | 1 Pages

Prenatal Development: Conception through Five Months was written by Francis J. Beckwith. This article is about seeing if abortion is justified or unjustified by starting from conception to the sixth month of pregnancy. Francis says that pregnancy begins at conception. During the first month of pregnancy, the sperm and ovum connect, which is called a zygote. A zygote is a combination of DNA from both the mother and father.

Read More
1547 Words | 7 Pages

This is a more ethical way of extracting embryonic stem cells seeing as these specific embryos would be destroyed anyways. Therefore, why not use them for science? Along with this, medical scientists can continue to do adult stem cell research in order to make more advances in that particular field. In a way religious beliefs are hindering medical advancement, but the religious beliefs have a very understandable moral basis. This is why I tend to sway more toward the scientist’s side of the conflict, though I also have an understanding of why the religious side is against it.

Read More
606 Words | 3 Pages

The destruction and use of a human embryo should not be allow to happen. Even if it isn 't fully formed from the moment is it concepted it is a human life and should be treated as such. The diseases and treatments that could come from giving up a human life are not worth it. It is giving up a life for a life. That life may not even be worth it because it takes multiple tries before the stem cells are even suitable for use in medical treatments.

Read More
1596 Words | 7 Pages

While this seems to be a logical argument, the argument can be negated by the implementation of strict regulations governing the creation of embryos in the in vitro fertilization process. Shannon says, "The human embryo ... is not to be destroyed or seen as disposable tissue that can be used in research" (SHANNON). However, the use of the embryo only happens if the parents of the created embryo for in vitro fertilization purposes are no longer willing to pay for the storage of embryos because they no longer need them. The parents of the embryo can choose to donate them to research and must give consent and sign various forms before scientist can do research. If the parent does not donate them, the clinic will destroy the

Read More
1050 Words | 5 Pages

The professional life contentions, which are against fetus removal, are the accompanying: 1. It is a murder to execute an honest individual 2. A human baby is an honest individual 3. Along these lines, the conclusion is that it is a wrongdoing to execute a human embryo On the opposite side, we have maybe a more grounded contention and a more philosophical which is that despite the fact that the baby has some future rights to self-flexibility, on the off chance that it was the situation that the tyke would be seriously incapacitated to the point where hesitance would be incomprehensible or their opportunity to take control of their being was nil.

Read More
1996 Words | 8 Pages

One of the most popular opposing positions on embryonic stem cell research stems from the belief that the process of retrieving the cells is virtually the same as abortion. This belief originates from lack of information and true fact about embryonic stem cell research. The embryos that the stem cells are taken from are at the oldest, three to four days old. When the embryo is less than fourteen days old, it has yet to develop neural tissue (Shapiro). Many argue that taking the stem cells at this point is the equivalent to retrieving an organ from a person who has been declared as brain dead.

Read More
1934 Words | 8 Pages

Many people say that embryonic and stem cell research are atrocious acts but both are morally correct. Embryos used in research don’t have feelings, they consist of very few cells, and they are extremely tiny so they are not human beings (Holcberg and Epstein 48). Many believe that instead of having embryos held and thrown out by fertility clinics that they should be used for research and experiments. People could also donate their embryos rather than disposing them (Menendez 19). Religious belief is one of the main reasons people do not support stem cells because people believe it goes against moral teaching

Read More
1403 Words | 6 Pages

Isn’t interesting that we, as persons, are asking the question “who are persons?”. We probably don’t have doubts that we know we are persons and human beings. If this is the case, why we are bothering ourselves asking about personhood? There are some philosophers such as Ronald Dworkin and Richard Hare who believe that the predicate “person” is too fuzzy and ambiguous to help us for settling the disagreement between “pro-life” and “pro-choice”.

Read More
1050 Words | 5 Pages

A sizeable portion of the argument for or against abortion is based on science and the definition of when a human life begins. However, Christie’s only mention of anything remotely scientific was her statement that “… no scientist questions the fact that a zygote, embryo, fetus and infant are all human beings in different stages of development” (1). For those strongly rooted in their pro-choice opinions, Christie’s blunt statement could cause disagreement and questioning in regards to other scientific details concerning the human stages of development. Many pro-choice advocates believe and could argue that zygotes and embryos are not technically living because they are not self-sustainable and they do not yet have brain activity. Despite the possible arguments against Christie’s effectiveness, her status as a doctor proves that she understands abortion and facts about abortion, yet she chose not to include them as persuasive strategies in her article.

Read More
1614 Words | 7 Pages

Many questions arise when discussing such controversial issues (Jaenisch et al.). Some of these questions include "the central, apparently unresolvable issue of the moral status of the human embryo, which raises questions about which perspectives should govern appropriate pluralistic policy" (Jaenisch et al.). There are also questions as to how to weigh the "possible scientific breakthroughs" with the "less quantifiable values and perspectives" (Jaenisch et al.). While there are decent arguments on how the copying of a human being could be

Read More

More about Embryonic Stem Cell Research Persuasive Speech

Related Topics

Open Document