What do the opponents have to say?
Although embryonic stem cells and cloning hold a lot of promise for future therapies, there still haven’t been any real effective treatments developed for diseases using them. Scientists also admit that it will be many years into the future before treatments can be developed. However, adult stem cells have already been proven effective, such as in bone marrow transplants. Embryonic stem cell research and cloning is also very expensive, and raise the cost-benefit issue for policy makers. Also, if therapies are developed, they are also likely to cost a lot. Some argue that only the rich will be able to afford the therapies. (Lachmann 2000) In Canada, with our universal health care, will that mean new stem cell therapies will be covered, or will the cost force our system to become more privatized, or will these therapies just not be made available to us at all? Will that in the end be ethical? One of the biggest arguments to not invest in embryonic stem cell research is that adult stem ce
