Articles, Information and News on Stem Cells
The policies on human embryonic stem cell research used by different countries vary tremendously and change frequently. The policies are determined by the government stand religious stand and political awareness etc.
Here is major categorization
Permissive:
This policy allows various embryonic stem cell derivation techniques including somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), also called research or therapeutic cloning. [Read more...]
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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