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Embryonic stem cell research, a hot topic in the United States for the past 4 years this issues has sparked a lot of controversy, you see the religious and morally right people saying that its killing possible life. On the other hand you see the crippled people who have been diagnosed with a disease that is just wasting them away as they hope and pray for a cure. A decision for the government to make on this subject must have been hard let the living die or kill the possible living, indeed a very hard choice. Either choice would have angered many people, but seeing as our president is very religious and sees the views of the many people who do not want to kill possible life he makes the choice of prohibiting this research. I see a better way out of this situation one that would please both arguments.

The people who do not want this research to go any further are mostly religious or hold moral values very close to them. Their reasons go beyond that, They also do not want to feel emotionally bad its not just knowing its wrong its feeling bad about it. Something can be done about that because seeing as Stem cell research is so promising it cannot be overlooked the research must proceed. A way to get people who are against it to be fine with it is to give them something in return to make them feel better about it. It would be like filling a gap for them. We could try giving everyone a baby monkey, new life in return for killing possible life.

It all makes sense a person who feels bad for killing possible life is given new life. A baby monkey who needs care and loving fill the emotional gap for the people who do not feel right about killing possible life. Not only is this a new life but it’s new life of a species who is closely related to ours making it not that different from a human baby. Maybe this way people would take time to open their minds up and take a better look at the data of stem cell research. Only 18% of embryonic stem cells used to make babies actually form an embryo. The percentages alone would make them see differently they would be saving more lives than killing. If taking a deeper look at data they can also see that embryonic stem cells are nothing more than tissue and unless having another component added to it cannot form any life at all. People would get monkeys and just as a baby grows their monkey would too. It would be replacing possible babies with actual babies, just a baby monkey.

Our government does it all the time; Take in consideration the Make-A-Wish foundation. We see that no progress is being done in order to cure them and so we make them feel better by granting them a wish. A dying little boys last wish is to meet a celebrity and this foundation helps his last dream come true making him feel like his life isn’t a waste and putting a smile back on the child’s face. The fight for them surviving is hard and this makes it seems like if the person is fighting they might not get a cure but they will get something in return. This could also be done for the people who go against stem cell research; they could all be given baby monkeys.

Therefore people would be getting recompensed with baby monkeys if they feel bad about the morally wrong part about the research. It would be a win-win situation everyone would get what they need. People who are sick and dying would get their one step closer or an actual cure and the people who were against it would be getting a new life in their life to take care of and to bring them up from their emotional down.

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