The basic premise

Ethical Stem Cell Campaign

The Ethical Stem Cell Campaign is an ongoing campaign to promote responsible stem cell research. The campaign has two goals. The first goal is to make people aware of the progress made in ethical forms of stem cell research. The second goal is to defend and vindicate the right of embryonic human beings not to be experimented on and to be treated with human dignity.
Some of the activities undertaken to date include:

Newspaper advertisements
Speaking Tour
Politician Briefing
Publication and distribution of a informative leaflet
Publication and distribution of a DVD
Stem Cell Presentation for Schools

This is an ongoing campaign and funds are needed to develop further initiatives as well as maintain our leaflet and DVD distribution.
These free resources are available from the resource section of this website.

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Stem cell research, as such, is not controversial or unethical. The basic objectives of such research are good—the development of medical treatments and cures. The controversy surrounding stem cell research relates to the sources of stem cells chosen.

Specifically, embryonic stem cell (ESC) research is controversial because it necessarily involves the killing of human embryos. Some who try to justify the destruction of human embryos argue that they are not human beings. Human embryos are, indeed, very tiny. But they are human beings nevertheless. You and I were once embryos like those killed to harvest stem cells. The scientific fact, confirmed by every embryology textbook, is that human embryos are human beings.

Other forms of stem cell research do not involve the destruction of embryos. As well as ensuring that the research is ethical, this avoids developing treatments which many patients would feel conscientiously bound to refuse.