Political View on Stem Cell Research and the Use of Umbilical Cord Stem Cells

Background of the politics
In the United States stem cell research has become a very heated topic over the past several years. It all began in 2001 when President Bush declared that scientists who receive federal research funds—by far the majority—could work only with a handful of stem cell lines. The White House said that more than 60 usable embryonic stem cell lines were available. But in reality the number is closer to nine due to genetic problems such as being contaminated with by viruses as a result of being developed with mouse feeder cells. Some points that Bush made in his state of the Union address were to urge Congress to prohibit "all" human cloning "because no human life should be started or ended as the object of an experiment." This can be seen as an ethical stand point but many researchers believe that the president is using it as a cover up to his own person/religious beliefs. Also......

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