Riley Woolston, Pro Group, Block 2

http://biotech.about.com/od/bioethics/i/issuestemcells_2.htm

My article talks about some pros and cons to both sides of stem cell research. One of its main points is that embryonic stem cell research has more potential and usefulness than adult stem cells. Embryonic stem cells have the potential to be create into any cell to where adult stem cells usually only form into the type of cell where the original adult cell derived from. This is just one example of how embryonic stem cells are more useful than adult stem cells. Also, many cons think that during embryonic stem cell research that a human life is ended. This is not true. A blastocyst is a ball of about 150 cells. The embryonic stem cells are extracted from the center of this ball of cells. During this process the blastocyst dies. Those cells have no characteristics of a human being. These cells are fertilized in a laboratory. These cells are not human lives. If properly and naturally fertilized by a female they do have the possibility of potentially becoming a human embryo, but they cells are extracted and laboratory-fertilized before any human life starts to begin.