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1) Should public funding be used to support stem cell research when so many Americans are opposed to it?
2) Can you think of any advantages of federal funding for stem cell research over exclusively private funding?
3) Scientists believe stem cell research could lead to diseases being cured and lives being saved. Does the end justify the means?
4) So far, stem cell research has not contributed to curing any diseases. Would a significant breakthrough change the debate?
5) Morally and ethically, is there a difference between extracting stem cells from unused embryos and cloning embryos for stem cell extraction?
6) Has the life or death decision already been made for unused frozen embryos? Fertility clinics eventually discard these unused embryos.
7) Within 14 days of fertilization, an embryo has no beginning of a nervous system. Should human characteristics—like a nervous system—change the fate of an embryo?
8) Stem cells can be cloned from existing stem cells. President Bush decided to allow federal funding for stem cell research in the U.S. only on the 60 lines of stem cells created before August 9, 2001. Scientists argue this is too restrictive and new stem cell lines are needed. Was the president’s decision a good compromise?
9) Should a multinational organization based in the U.S. be able to do stem cell research in the U.K. where the laws for stem cell research are less restrictive? …in China where there are no laws restricting cloning and stem cell research?
10) Will our decision to invest private funds into an organization doing illegal or questionably unethical stem cell research make a difference?
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