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Mendes 1 Letícia Corrêa Mendes Amy Dolan Bioethics 383 10/29/20 Jim and the forgotten embryo Case study Part I 1. What is a stem cell? It is an undifferentiated cell of a multicellular organism that is capable of creating more cells of the same form indefinitely, and from which many other cell types emerge by differentiation. In addition, there has been some controversy about the marketing of the tool, justice, and the responsible conduct of science. 2. How are embryonic stem cells different from other types of stem cells? Embryonic stem cells are distinguished from other stem cell types because they are capable of the number and form of differentiated types of cells they can become. Since they are pluripotent, they may become all cell types of the body. Therefore, they become any cell depending on the signal the cell receives. However, since it requires the destruction of human embryos, human embryonic stem cell research is ethically and politically contentious.

Part II 1. Why is there controversy surrounding the therapeutic use of embryonic stem cells? The controversy surrounding the medicinal use of embryonic stem cells is that you kill a human life in simplistic terms to save another human life when the embryo is being formed in early forms. At one stage, the embryo is not considered a human being until much later when the embryo has grown into a fetus. The anti-abortion movement, whose proponents are concerned

Mendes 2 with the rights and status of the embryo as an early-age human life, has been inspired and revitalized by stem cell debates. 2. What embryos are used as the source for embryonic stem cells? What would happen to these embryos if they were not used in such treatments? The embryos used in embryonic stem cell research come from eggs that have been fertilized but never implanted in the uterus of a woman in in vitro fertilization clinics. These embryos may have been kept frozen and preserved indefinitely, donated to other infertile couples, or allowed to thaw the embryos for medical research. But with informed consent from donors, the stem cells used are donated. In test tubes or petri dishes in laboratories, the stem cells can live and grow in special solutions. It is difficult to uphold all moral values in the case of embryonic stem cell study. The early embryo needs to be killed to acquire embryonic stem cells. It implies the death of a future human life.

Part III 2. State two reasons for and against undergoing the stem cell treatment. The two reasons for stem cell therapy are that it can cope with many different health conditions, such as burn victims, cardiovascular disorders, etc. Thus, because the embryo is not currently implanted and does not have the ability to be implanted, no lives are lost. Then the two arguments against undergoing are that it is not a hundred percent guarantee that it will work, plus it is taking away the chance that it will be used to implant and build a life in a womb....