I know that abortion and stem cell are very contorversial topics today. However i don't think that people are really looking at the benefits of stem cell research. stem cells have the potential to help millions of peolpe .
those who are against stem cells are against abortion to because it is taking a human life. But think of all the lives that will be saved if both abortion and stem cells were to go hand in hand to help each other.The women who plan on having an abortion could just have their embro used for stem cell research. I know this may sound outrageous to some , but hear me out here. When a woman is pregnant , their unborn child is pretty much potential energy( since it's not quite alive yet). Now , in science , it is a well known law that energy can be neither created now destroyed only transformed. So, with that principle in mind, when embryo's are used in stem cell research and used to, for example, regenerate the cells in someone's spinal cord so that they may be mobile again; the embryo (if you are you believe life begins at conception) is not dying. their energy ( essence) is going on to be morphed into another form so that it can benefit and prolong the life of another. So no one is really hurt by this.
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Once the fetus is aborted, why not be utilitarian and use the stem cells for what they can do to save others?
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Where are stem cells in fetuses? I really don't know...I'm pretty sure that they don't have enough bone marrow to be useful....
~Violinstef
*sighs* Stem cells aren't only in bone marrow, that just is the best source for them in adults, since your blood is completely replaced at a pretty high rate.
If a fetus didn't have stem cells, they wouldn't grow. Plain and simple.
~C
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No offense, but that didn't answer my question. I was asking exactly WHERE stem cells are in fetuses. Not embryos which are made entirely of stem cells at the 5-day point, but say, a fetus at 20 weeks.
~Violinstef
Pick a cell. Chances are it'll be a pluripotent stem cell, or at least an organ stem cell. As I said, fetuses can't grow without stem cells. I can't tell you 'oh, there's a cell located a millimeter under the skin that's a stem cell' because it depends on how large the fetus is, what stage of development, etc.
There has been research proving that skin cells can be turned into stem cells. With that idea, any cell in the fetus has the potential to be a stem cell, so the point is moot.
~C
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The stem cells are the pluripotent cells in your body. Embryonic stem cells are found in the blastocyst, when the embryo is a few days old. Bone marrow stem cells can only give rise to a few different tissues, so the embryonic cells are more useful.
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I agree, people do not look at how efficient stem cell research has been and how helpful and positive it could be. We could save so many people and improve so many people's lives that the positives outweigh the negatives.