Political Views

    The reason that stem cell research has not been much funded in the past is because there is major controversy surrounding it. It has the same controversy as abortion. The Catholic Church is against abortion because they feel that it kills a living person and should be treated as murder, on the other hand more liberal people believe that the mother should choose whether or not she wants the baby. The reason that there is such a controversy is because if you can clone one of the cells, then there will eventually be enough information to clone a whole person. There already was enough information to clone a sheep.

    Another reason that there is not so much on stem cell research is that the Bush Administration had stopped funding for any new stem cell research. Even though he kept up funding for the already open research centers, there were only 65 centers open. Bush said that these 65 centers were enough to do sufficient amount of research, but you would have to keep many more centers open if you wanted to have enough information to do anything important. By important I mean that the stem cells could actually regenerate limbs. From his point of view, he was actually doing a good thing because his campaign promise was to stop all funding for the centers.

    Barack Obama said in his campaign that he would increase funding for stem cell research centers. Obama feels that the advantages of stem cells outways the disadvantages. Mostly, Democrats support stem cell research. It is very significant that Obama plans to raise funding on stem cells because this will increase the amount of saved organs and limbs, and in turn make a lot of people’s lives a lot better. On the flip side in order to pay for this funding Obama will have to raise the taxes. Overall stem cell research is very controversial and there is really no “right” point of view.