In my article it discussed the issues of stem cell research and expenses. Stem cell research isn't cheap and is paid for by federal funding. The issue is that taxpayers don't want to be supporting the research by having there money go to something they don't approve of. It is also frustrating for them to pay their taxes to research that hasn't really progressed in the past 20 years. William Haseltine, CEO of Human Genome Sciences, even said,"The routine utilization of human embryonic stem cells for medicine is 20 to 30 years hence. The timeline to commercialization is so long that I simply would not invest." It doesn't help that the taxpayers are angry while there money is going to research, but now even big company won't invest Stem Cell research. The research also has been at a stand still for quite some time and hasn't been used to treat people because they haven't been tested for their safety.
My article also talked about the expense issues with harvesting embryonic stem cells. The equipmnet used to harvest the cells can cost at $100,000 to $200,000 for just 50 to 100 patients. Collecting just 10 eggs already requires a minimun of 85 to 170 million women. The cost for the harvesting of the embryonic cell is the most expensive process of stem cell research.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2005/05/federal-stem-cell-research-what-taxpayers-should-know
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