Stem Cell Research, No Unity

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The President is not the man bringing everyone together that he claims to be. For years there has been a debate over whether or not it is ethical for research to be done on embryonic stem cells. This would mean that you have to have a supply of human embryos. Many people think that is the same as killing children and it is wrong while most scientists think that it is just a few cells and there is nothing human about it. There must be some way to compromise.

Well, it turns out there is and that Mr. Obama decided not to take the route of compromise and lifted the ban on embryonic stem cell research.

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If it is possible to make stem cells from skin cells, as it apparently is, why would you not compromise and perfect this method? Scientists and people that are ill get the stem cell research they want and people that think embryonic research is unethical no longer have to worry. I guess you aren't the President trying to bring everyone together; just the same as the rest. Mr. Obama, you are doing this just to try and force religious people, that is what most opponents to this are, to start using science. Science found another way to do the same research and yet you still find the need to stick it in their face. That is not freedom.

If you notice I did not state my own opinion on this in here and I don't have to choose sides now that there is a different way to make them. I don't know whether or not it is ethical but there is no reason to lift the ban when there is another way to make everyone happy.

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I wonder if this will make the mainstream television news. I have known about this for some time now and I finally found it on NBC. Quite a few months ago I read an article, that I cannot seem to find anymore, about some researchers at a university in the USA that had discovered a way to turn skin cells into stem cells. This article speaks of a safer way to do this process.

This should entirely end the debate about the ethicality of stem cell research because we know longer need to use practices which are questionable at all. From all sides of the political spectrum this is good news. From the right, there is no longer anything ethically wrong with this because no embryos are being used. From the left, you no longer have to push for something that someone else may even think is unethical because you have another way to get the necessary cells for research. From the third party view, now we get stop hearing the bickering, finally!