Persuasive Essay On Embryonic Stem Cells

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Embryonic Stem Cell Research A stem cell is a type of cell that can give rise to more cells of its kind, with at least one type of specialized cell. Human bodies possess different kinds of stem cells in different stages of life, and embryonic stem cells exist only in the first few weeks of human life, when humans are embryos. Embryos are fertilized eggs formed when a human egg and sperm fuse together and begin to undergo cell division. After about five days from the first division embryos develop into a hollowed-out ball of fluid that contains around 150 cells called a blastocyst. A part of the blastocyst will become the placenta, which will serve to nurture the growing embryo. Another section of the blastocyst will contain the inner cell mass that makes up the embryo. The cells of the inner cell mass are the embryonic stem cells, which can give rise to all the types of cells found in an adult human body. Embryonic stem cells can form around two hundred and ten…show more content…
After President Bush limited embryonic stem research government funds, many labs were forced to seek private funding to continue research. In March 2009 President Barack Obama lifted the federal funding ban for embryonic stem cell research, so the government could give financial support to federal and state agencies to continue embryonic stem cell research. President Obama spoke on the issue in 2009: "Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident. They result from painstaking and costly research, from years of lonely trial and error, much of which never bears fruit, and from a government willing to support that work...Ultimately, I cannot guarantee that we will find the treatments and cures we seek. No President can promise that. But I can promise that we will seek them -- actively, responsibly, and with the urgency required to make up for lost

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