LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Current ethical controversies regarding stem cell-based therapy are focused on the unlimited differentiation potential of iPSCs which can be used in human cloning, as a risk for generation of human embryos and human-animal chimeras.

Detailed explanation-2: -However, human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research is ethically and politically controversial because it involves the destruction of human embryos. In the United States, the question of when human life begins has been highly controversial and closely linked to debates over abortion.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stem cell debates have motivated and reinvigorated the anti-abortion movement, whose members are concerned with the rights and status of the human embryo as an early-aged human life. They believe that embryonic stem cell research profits from and violates the sanctity of life and is tantamount to murder.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the case of embryonic stem cell research, it is impossible to respect both moral principles.To obtain embryonic stem cells, the early embryo has to be destroyed. This means destroying a potential human life.

Detailed explanation-5: -Stem cell technologies would be very expensive and available only to rich countries and to rich people. Stem cell research would deviate efforts from other health strategies. Interference with the genome involves ‘playing God’ Somatic cell nuclear transfer is immoral as it involves creating embryos only to destroy them. More items