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What if the most important aspects of life were taken away? For example, imagine two ordinary human beings that are exactly alike at the beginning. One will grow up and have all of the rights and privileges a human gets in life. The other human being will never get to experience the important things like love, friendship, and success. He will never have the chance to make his own decisions, but will have all of his decisions made by a stranger. Is this fair? Both of these human beings are in their thirty-fourth day of development. Both look and act identical to how every human looked and acted at their thirty-fourth day of development. The first is implanted in a woman while the other is tested on and then discarded without another thought once it has no more use. Everyone as a human beings have all of the rights and protections a human has, including the simple act of making your own decisions. Shouldn't both of these human beings who are identical to the way every human being was at one point in their life have all of the same rights and protections in life? Stem Cell Research must be banned in order to protect basic human rights.

Stem Cells are cells that have the potential to develop into all other cells and tissues in the body. These cells are usually taken from human embryos. The human embryos then have experiments done on them. There are three different ways to obtain these embryos. The first source of human embryos is the "left-over" embryos that will not be used at fertility clinics. The second source is creating human embryos for the only purpose of research. The third source is to obtain the human embryos through cloning. Stem Cell Research is not illegal in the United States, but federal funding for the research is extremely limited. Supporters of expanded stem cell research see the issue from a medical stand point and argue that it could lead to therapies and cures for diseases. Opponents see the issue from an ethical point of view. They believe that it is ethically and morally unacceptable to perform research on embryos because it means a human life must be destroyed.
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