1. By: Erin Hutzell and Triston Harry

2.  Should the government support/fund the research of embryonic stem cells? ◦ To answer the question:  Is embryonic stem cell research ethical?  Is embryonic stem cell research useful?  Does embryonic stem cell research fit government regulations?

3.  Embryonic Stem Cells ◦ Derived from Blastocyst ◦ Embryo is Destroyed ◦ Cells are Pluripotent ◦ Currently being Researched  Government ◦ Federal Regulations ◦ Guide Research ◦ Many Documents  Belmont Report  Dickey-Wicker Amendment

4.  Life Begins at Conception ◦ Scientifically Proven  Genetics  Embryology  Embryonic Development  Life Begins at day 14 or 15 of Pregnancy ◦ Twinning ◦ Embryo Fusion ◦ Miscarriages

5.  Spare Embryos ◦ Permanently Frozen ◦ Destroyed Anyways  Alternatives to these procedures

6.  Kant’s Categorical Imperative  Inherent worth  End-in-itself formula  Principalism  Nonmalificence  Beneficence  Autonomy

7. Unethical

8.  Scarce amount of recorded data  Tissue rejection  Tumors  Not approved by FDA

9. Adult Stem CellsInduced Pluripotent Stem Cells  Occur Naturally in Body  Naturally Repair Body  Highly successful ◦ Treated between 70 and 100 disorders  Presents no ethical implications or health problems  New Technology ◦ Still in Research Phase  Not used as direct treatment  Cell Lines used to find treatments ◦ Test drugs  Artificially created  Fairly successful  Problem of Uncontrollable Growth ◦ Tumors

10. Embryonic Stem Cells are not useful therapeutically and are not successful

11.  Dickey Wicker Amendment  George Bush  Barrack Obama

12. National Research Act of 1974 The Belmont Report  Created Committee  Identify Ethical Principles  Guide Research  Resulted in Belmont Report  Principles ◦ Autonomy ◦ Beneficence ◦ Justice  All Principles Violated

13. Should not be funded

14.  The Government Should Not Fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research ◦ The Research Itself is Unethical  Human lives are destroyed ◦ The Research is Unsuccessful  This results in a bad allocation of resources if funded ◦ The Research Violates Government Regulations  Should not fund something that does not follow the law