Cayley Painter - Current Event

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Human-Animal Hybrid Stem Cell Controversy

There has been ongoing controversy on the subject of creating chimeras (animal-human hybrids) for the sake of scientific reserch. The debate on weather or not this is ethical has been going on for many years. Scientits argue that if they are able to create a successful human-animal hybrid, they can use it for medical and scientific research, futhering the advancements of stem-cell breakthroughs such as new treatments for the ill. There have been many surgries in the United States that have involved replacing a human heart valve with a pig or cow one.The practice of creating these chimeras is outlawed in many places, including Canda, but the experiments continue nonetheless.

My Opinion:
I am one-hundred percent against this topic. Creating human-animal hybrids is unnatural and somewhat playing God. These scientists could only have hypothesis on what these "chimeras" could really turn out to be. They have no idea how much of this creation could have human characteristcs.
On the other hand, I do see some positives to this. If it is advancing the breakthroughs of scientific and medical research, then I suppose that would be for a reasonable purpose. Nevertheless, I do not condone these expirements, nor do I agree with them.