What is Bioethics About?
Being the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine, bioethics is concerned with the protection from any field which may endanger the dignity of human life. It is therefore directly related to stem cell research when considering the use of embryonic stem cells. The ethical debate centred on research involving the creation, use and destruction of such stem cells is known as the stem cell controversy. Some opponents to the research argue that the use of embryonic stem cell is none other than the start of a “slippery slope” to reproductive cloning, whereas medical researchers in the field argue that it is necessary to pursue such research because a significant medical potential could result from the technologies obtained and that it would be better to donate excess embryos obtained from in vitro fertilisation for the use of embryonic stem cell research than to simply throw away a living potential for medical progress. This in turn c
