STEM CELL RESEARCH

Stem Cell Research Legislation

Stem Cell Research Legislation

Introduction

United States, legislation and funding for stem cell research are closely related. At the federal level, scientists can not use government funds to create new embryonic stem cell lines. All work funded by the public sector are limited to 61 stem cell lines already in existence in 2001 when the ban on producing new lines has been established. In July 2006, President Bush vetoed a bill to lift the ban , reaffirming its opposition to the use of public funds for projects involving the destruction of human embryos. It was the first time in his presidency that he refused to sign a bill approved by Congress. However, each state has the authority to pass laws allowing research on human embryonic stem cells using its own funds. Several states have amended their laws, including Connecticut, Massachusetts, California and Illinois. This allowed the creation of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine , California which cost $ 3 billion.

Discussion & Analyses

United States, private funding of research on embryonic stem cells has never been banned, leaving the industry largely unregulated. The rapid evolution of research projects in genetics and clinical trials of cell ma dre is raising a number of problems that demand an adequate legal framework. Law is often said that one or more steps will behind social reality. And this is not intrinsically bad mind, if the delay is not such an entity to generate a socially unacceptable legal uncertainty . The development of any mandatory rule that affect such important values as life, health, dignity, freedom of research or religious freedom and ideological, not a task that can be addressed with precipitation, but must necessarily be preceded by a wide debate on accurate information (Kollmann, 2010). The lack of modern regulation and specific biomedical research to respond to current scientific knowledge can lead to inequity vulnerability of legal worthy of protection, impossibility of application of existing rules to realities not contemplated at the time of its enactment, and legal uncertainty about the legality of de completed research projects on the genome embryonic cells that make us doubt whether found, or not under the protective umbrella of sorts legal procedure.

The dilemma in which States are in relation to modern biomedical research results in many cases legislative paralysis, para-analysis it was impossible to extract a lowest common denominator to agree fears and de desires of society as a whole. We cannot forget that each of the three broad targeted habits (scientific, ethical and legal) is work on realities in constant and rapid evolution, which calls for a relativization of the principles necessary contemporaries, and an openness to reflection and change an attitude that invites us to review the ethical and moral principles to be left outweighed by the evidence do the common good, and we also push legislation to adapt to the challenges and demands, so incessant, raises the scientific developments, and all this in order to give an appropriate legal response to controversial issues ...