Draft 1 of Speech Notes from Mr. Cav

What have stem cells been associated to? Murder? Death?(statement?) How about an opportunity? An opportunity for people who have had been dealt a cruel card from fate. Men and women, adults and children, fathers and mothers, lives shaken, lives destroyed. 58% of all spinal injuries result the victim to become paraplegics, 48% become quadriplegic. Imagine everything in your life and all of a sudden it stops, everything changes you or mother, father due to a tragic accident are forever paralyzed, confined to a wheel chair or in life support never to walk or maybe move again you never expect to happen to you or someone you know.

anecdote?

The leading of cause to spinal injury are motor incidents from people who have just received their drivers licence are in the long journey in receiving their full licence. These are men and women who are 16 to 21 who have their lives drastically changed. With the introduction of stem cell research this would be a thing of the past, with the proper resources and a rallying of scientists to refine the stem cell process men and women, adults and children, mothers and fathers would be able to walk, to talk and live their life as they lived it after life gave them a cruel card of fate.

Spinal cord injuries are when the spinal cord is damaged from an accident or disease this can disrupt or destroy the neural pathways that run from our spinal cord to all parts of the body. If the damage is light and the person is lucky the pathways will remain unharmed and so will their motor skills on the other hand if the person is unlucky and the damage is severe they may become a paraplegic or worst and quadriplegic resulting in them losing all motor skills to their upper or lower half of their body or losing  total motor movement.

Stem cell research has been disputed upon from the fact that would it be murder for destroying a fertilized egg that will most likely never be used to be implanted into a uterus. Stem cell research involves removing the uncharacterized cells in a zygote which has been artificially created to for artificial conception. Stem cells can be used to replace the damaged cells in the spinal cord allowing a person to walk and move to allow them to live out their lives and to allow them to rebuild their lives.

So is it murder to kill something which has never been alive? Is it still murder for killing what could have been? So is it still wrong to destroy a zygote which will never been used to create another human being to fix one that needs help, who has a family, who is a son or daughter or father or mother? So is it wrong to destroy what could be to fix families and lives?