A Reply To Rifkin Analysis
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March 17, 2011
In your Journal: “A reply to Rifkin” The embryonic cloning debate touches down ethical issues that are each debatable. One is the debate whether it is healthy and or ethical to obtain eggs from a woman for stem cells. It calls for hormone treatment and surgery. With all surgeries, there is always a risk, but with this one it’s an ethical debate if it is right or not. Another reason why is that people are afraid that we will fall down a slippery slope into human cloning or human organ harvesting. Human cloning and organ harvesting are both immoral and unethical but should not be used as an argument against stem cells and stem cell research. Laws can regulate cloning and harvesting so this slippery slope never occurs, but prohibiting research into a field that can eventually prevent genetic disorders that dominant traits like Alzheimer’s and recessive traits like sickle cell can be fixed by gene replacement using stem cells, I don’t see a reason not to fund such research. Rifkin discusses the alternative research on adult stem cells as a better alternative, but either the fact that he is unaware that these cells show more flexibility then the adult stem cell counterpart. The fact that …show more content…
People like Michael J. Fox and Muhammad Ali went to the supreme court over the issue in 2007 for the government to federally fund the research to help with Parkinson’s disease, knowing that this can and will be the cure for genetic disorders many people have privately funded the research. Stem cells can also be used to alter chromosome 21, which is the genetic mutation that occurs in zygote development causing Down syndrome. By obtaining eggs from a female, research on these mutations can further enhance are knowledge and someday give us the ability to use Nuclear transfer to rid human kind of such disorders in our
March 17, 2011
In your Journal: “A reply to Rifkin” The embryonic cloning debate touches down ethical issues that are each debatable. One is the debate whether it is healthy and or ethical to obtain eggs from a woman for stem cells. It calls for hormone treatment and surgery. With all surgeries, there is always a risk, but with this one it’s an ethical debate if it is right or not. Another reason why is that people are afraid that we will fall down a slippery slope into human cloning or human organ harvesting. Human cloning and organ harvesting are both immoral and unethical but should not be used as an argument against stem cells and stem cell research. Laws can regulate cloning and harvesting so this slippery slope never occurs, but prohibiting research into a field that can eventually prevent genetic disorders that dominant traits like Alzheimer’s and recessive traits like sickle cell can be fixed by gene replacement using stem cells, I don’t see a reason not to fund such research. Rifkin discusses the alternative research on adult stem cells as a better alternative, but either the fact that he is unaware that these cells show more flexibility then the adult stem cell counterpart. The fact that …show more content…
People like Michael J. Fox and Muhammad Ali went to the supreme court over the issue in 2007 for the government to federally fund the research to help with Parkinson’s disease, knowing that this can and will be the cure for genetic disorders many people have privately funded the research. Stem cells can also be used to alter chromosome 21, which is the genetic mutation that occurs in zygote development causing Down syndrome. By obtaining eggs from a female, research on these mutations can further enhance are knowledge and someday give us the ability to use Nuclear transfer to rid human kind of such disorders in our