tiny, roundish balls. In reality, they are much more than that. Those 40 cells contain all

the potential to become a living, breathing human being. Many scientists believe that

these cells also have the potential to cure a myriad of diseases, including Alzheimer's

disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, and many others. The cells of the four day old

human embryo can be programmed to become virtually any cell in the body making them

a very valuable commodity. All this sounds very promising until one realizes the cost of

acquiring these miracle cells. Gathering stem cells from human embryos can be looked

at as nothing less that taking a life. (Begley 23)

There are multiple reasons that the government should not fund research on

embryonic stem cells but the most important has got to be the inevitable destruction of

life involved. What good is saving lives when they are being taken at the same time?

How much since does that make? Who are we to decide whether these embryos get their

chance at life or not? Making a decision like that is playing God. Pure and simple. We

don't even know for sure that stem cells can live up to the expe

of new stem cells. Many also reason that banning research on the precious cells would

While the harvesting of embryonic stem cells should be out of the question,

stem cells. There is no justifiable reason to take this route, especially with the Presidents

effects, most notably an inevitable tax increase to support all of the elderly who would

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