Yet another one of my rants, and if anyone cares to read, be my guest.
President Bush vetoed the embryonic stem cell bill for the second time and announced no new federal dollars for the research, and people are having a fit again saying "Bush is heartless" and "He doesn't care about curing diseases." The reason that so many people are for stem cell research is to help find a cure to different diseases, such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease. That's great, and I believe that we should find a cure and a lot of good could come from it, but right now, it seems more bad would come than good. But yet again, nobody thinks about the consequences and the future and what could come out of stem cell research.
I think that a lot of people think that this is based strictly on religious beliefs, and maybe it is for the President. I don't really know. I personally am against it for one reason and one reason only and that is what could, and most likely will happen if it's made legal. I can sit back and look at the whole picture here, and I can completely understand why we should do it. It could help in many departments. Then I look at in a different perspective and really… it's like playing "God" and messing with Mother Nature. It's not meant to be done. You're not supposed to be able to just clone people as you please, which is what would most likely come out of the research. Human life is not something to be messed around with and it's not just like going to the store and buying something. You can't have all these added bonuses simply if you hand over the cash and pay more. Scientists like to experiment, it's what they do. Eventually, I believe, people will start being able to pick and choose what genetics they want their children to have, the sex of their baby, specific birth selection, as well being able to have clones of people walking around! It's morally wrong. How do we even know if this will work, and if it ever will find a cure to certain diseases? We don't. And I would think, or hope at least, that most people with spine problems, or Parkinson's, or anything would want definite answers before risking the chance of dying to 'maybe' walk again.
In order to legalize stem cell research, there needs to be a way to regulate the research to strictly be used only for stem cell research. Then, and only then do I think it should even be considered to become legal. There are simply too many things that could go wrong, and we live in America… if you honestly think that it wouldn't be used for the wrong things then I think you should think twice. Before anything, there needs to be the most amount of effort being put into figuring out how they can control the research so that it can be done and it's definitely not something that should be kept unmonitored.