Stem cells are surrounded by controversies

Embryonic stem cells have been center of controversies. The issue s involved are legal, ethical, religious and moral. As it involves area surrounding human reproduction, it is natural to get much attention and opinion from all authorities and fields just like contraception, abortion, and in vitro fertilization.

Actually it is the way society takes this issue of human life and the moral and legal status of the human embryo.

Greatest objection to embryonic stem cell research comes from the fact that research deprives a human embryo of any further potential to develop into a complete human being.

It amounts to killing of  life  of  a human being and killing humans for treating humans is not justified. But even society does not universally agrees when an embryo can be called live.

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