International Cooperation

In 2004, New Jersey passed a state budget that included $5.5 million for stem cell research, and Californians approved a $3 billion bond measure to fund research over 10 years. In 2005, Connecticut set aside $100 million, Illinois $10 million, and, in 2006, Maryland authorized $15 million. This is not enough funding to provide enough research to make stem cells common in hospitals throughout the world. Stem cell research is becoming a large field under the Obama administration and recently was cut from federal funding in the Bush administration. With the current inconsistency of support between presidential administrations, stem cell research will not progress as far as desired. Also with the present national recession, we are greatly in debt to many countries and cannot provide the necessary funding to carry on with stem cell research. The United Nations supports embryonic stem cell research and believes that embryonic stem cells are a large part of the future of medicine.

Stem cell development will not get as far as desired without international cooperation. Funding should be given and research should be conducted by every nation with enough money in their national budget to do so. All of these nations should conduct research together to increase productivity. The United Nations agrees that embryonic stem cells exhibit useful qualities that can someday become a large branch of medicine. Overall, the UN agrees that stem cells would be a good international investment that would benefit most people.