Stem Cell Dilemmas

• Stem Cell Ethical Concerns

  Concerns about destruction of human life, cloning, and genetic modification when using embryonic stem cells.
• Good sides of using Stem Cells:

  • Provides potential treatments
  • Provide possibility of culturing them into organs for people
  • New drugs can be tested on them for effectiveness
• Bad sides of using Stem Cells:

  • No guarantee of how successful stem cell therapy will be
  • Embryos would be seen as objects
  • Cultured stem cells could contract virus and may pass it on to patient
• Therapeutic Cloning= cloning an embryo to produce stem cells for a patient and cure certain disorders or diseases