Essay - Technology: Love It. Hate It. Who Would Give Up Their...

Technology: Love it. Hate it. Who would give up their cars, especially those living in the suburbs? However, thousands of people mourn ***** tragedies that occur on the roads every year. How many individuals can go without all ***** time saving non-recyclables they use ***** day? Yet no one wants landfills in ***** location. Patients laud tech*****logical ********** in healthcare for early diagnosis. But they get very concerned when hearing about some of the possible side effects from medical advances. People have trouble accepting that technology, like everything else, presents a tradeoff. As technological advances become increasingly complex, so do the tradeoffs involved. This is especi*****y true when ethical con*****rations arise such as with the embryonic stem cell debate. The number of people who could benefit from stem ***** development is infinite. Yet many people, in particular those ***** moral and religious concerns, highly question the ***** ***** embryos and biological modification. ***** is not a dilemma that will be quickly resolved, especially since no one knows all the future ramifications. ***** hope ***** ***** on the bottom line, the advantages far outweigh ***** disadvantages.

***** Impact

***** scientists successfully isolated human embry*****ic ***** cells in 1998, they "set off a storm of controversy." (Holland xvi). Forces quickly mobilized: President Cl*****ton asked the. National Bioethics Advisory Commission to undertake a thorough review of issues *****ssociated with stem cell research, ***** leaders reiterated their opposition ***** creation of embryos for research or to destruction of ***** in research, and ethicists began to study the ***** involved.

*****, scientists were explaining that their research could eventually have a dr*****matic impact on the future life ***** people worldwide. People may never have to worry about many of the effects of major diseases, disabling injuries ***** aging (Viegas 1). The *****ers explained ***** stem cells can have the capacity for long-term self-renewal and produce at least one type of highly differentiated or specialized descendant (Watt and Hogan).

***** *****n, the ***** has revolved around three fac*****rs. First, unlike adult cells that are limited ***** differentiated, the ***** of the ***** embryo can be separated out and f*****m an entire new org*****ism. They are also immortal, able to continue to divide *****ly *****out losing their genetic structure. In addition, they are malle*****, capable ***** being manipulated without losing cell function (ibid xviii). Reproduction, or cloning, raises a l*****rge number of ethical questions.

*****, the derivation of ***** *****s from ***** embryos that are destroyed in the process or from aborted fetuses feeds into the major ongoing controversy of when ***** begins and the ethics of abortion. For many people, an embryo is already a fully ***** being. Stem cells come ***** harvested **********. There ***** ***** ***** feel this it is un***** regardless if ********** embryos are collected from consenting *****nors ***** couples who no longer need them for fertility treatments or through other in vitro or in vivo practices.

Third, stem-cell research ra*****es the concern of regulation. In the first place, should research be