JohnRM
Don't make me destroy you
There are several significant problems with embryonic stem cells. The first is that when used the subject often rejects the cells due to difference of DNA. These cells often turn into cancerous objects within the patient. The only solution that has been proposed so far is to subject the patient to consuming so many different drugs to cope that it would cause all kinds of other problems for the patient anyway which would make it pointless.
The second problem is that suppose you do develop a treatment via the use of these stem cells, it can cure millions. Where are you going to get the stem cells to treat all of these people? Women will inevitably end up selling eggs for money and in the developed nations, they won't take less than tens of thousands for it. No, we will end up going to the third world and buying eggs from dirt poor women in Africa, India, etc. and then we get into an ethical dilema.
More than that, the fact is that it will almost certainly lead to women getting pregnant and selling the embryo for money and turning abortion into a business.
I think that what President Bush did today was a great thing. I know that the majority of Congress and possibly the majority of Americans support this kind of stem cell research, but it is not the job of the President to please the majority, it is his job to protect Americans, even from the majority of Americans.
The second problem is that suppose you do develop a treatment via the use of these stem cells, it can cure millions. Where are you going to get the stem cells to treat all of these people? Women will inevitably end up selling eggs for money and in the developed nations, they won't take less than tens of thousands for it. No, we will end up going to the third world and buying eggs from dirt poor women in Africa, India, etc. and then we get into an ethical dilema.
More than that, the fact is that it will almost certainly lead to women getting pregnant and selling the embryo for money and turning abortion into a business.
I think that what President Bush did today was a great thing. I know that the majority of Congress and possibly the majority of Americans support this kind of stem cell research, but it is not the job of the President to please the majority, it is his job to protect Americans, even from the majority of Americans.