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Working Title:
Research Question:
Does the human embryo have legal or moral rights to not be used for
Working Thesis:
Human embryos do not have legal or moral rights by day five, and
therefore it should be legal to use them for the benefits of stem cell
research.
Introduction:
medicine. With stem cells we have the ability to study diseases, create
These cells are harvested from embryonic cells and that is where the
not these embryos have rights, if the practices of stem cell research
are humane, and why adult stem cells are not used instead? There are
guidelines in place for stem cell research and laws laid out about the
rights of the embryos. Still society tries to fight it. Opponents to stem
cell research want to keep embryos frozen and stored, or donate them
to other less fortunate families that are unable to conceive. Stem cell
Sources
Mayo Clinic Staff, (March 23, 2013) Stem Cells: What they are and
procedures/bone-marrow-transplant/in-depth/stem-cells/art-
20048117
The purpose of this source is to define stem cells and what they
are used for. I will use this source in my introduction of the paper to
out the paper. It will help to explain what a stem cell is and what it
does, the difference between adult and embryo stem cells, and will
by: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/27/us/legal-rights-of-
embryos.html
This source helps to sort out the legal side to embryonic stem
cell research. I will be using this article when addressing the legal
battle from both sides point of views. It gives definitions from the
Federal medical ethics advisory board and discusses Supreme Court
http://www.stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/7.html
This source explains the guidelines laid out for stem cell
regulations that come with stem cell research and who are in charge of
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652804/
the other sides point of view in order to give my readers a clear view