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Stem Cell Informative Speech

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Heart disease, cancer, and diabetes have drastically hindered or even taken the lives of people you may know and love. While these three diseases consistently rank in the top ten leading causes of death in the United States, we as a country are steered toward pharmaceutical drugs in order to mask their life altering affects on us. The United States should no longer focus on masking and “just getting by”, but instead push to become the world leader in adult stem cell research and therapy in order to heal and restore life for millions of americans.
The topic of stem cells almost automatically associated with being morally unjust, illegal, and unnatural. The most common notion that there is only one type of stem cell (embryonic stem cells ), which requires the death of human lifeform(fetus) is simply not true and only tells a marginal part of the science behind stem cells. In reality every person has adult (somatic) stem cells in their bone marrow, fat, muscle tissue, and even common organs such as the heart which do not require any sort of killing for extraction. When people drop the “adult” adjective when discussing stem cells it completely changes the narrative from one of legitimate science and medicine to a maniacal homicide. Another myth associated with stem cells is that is illegal and that its “interferes with god's …show more content…

In one example Dr. David Prentice, a professor of molecular biology and Director of Research at Charlotte Lozier Institute, writes about Cindy Schroeder who was “given a death sentence when she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma”. Cindy’s blood cancer would normally be deemed terminal but through the wonders of an adult stem cell transplant she fully recovered in a matter of less than a year (Prentice, David). There are thousands more just like Cindy all around the country world who benefited from adult stem

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