Drafting Assessment Task Speech

What have stem cells been associated with? Murder? Death? How about an opportunity? An opportunity for people who have 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 in the victim becoming paraplegic and 48% become quadriplegic. Imagine everything in your life and all of a sudden it stops, everything changes you or your mother, or your father are forever paralyzed due to a tragic accident, confined to a wheel chair or on life support never to walk or move again.

The leading cause of spinal injury are motor accidents involving people who have just received their drivers licence or are in the long journey of receiving their full licence. These are men and women who are 16 to 21 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 before the cruel twist of fate.

Spinal cord injuries are when the spinal cord is damaged from an accident or disease which disrupts or destroys the neural pathways that run from our spinal cord to all parts of the body. In the event of an accident the damage is severe they may become a paraplegic or worse and quadriplegic resulting in them losing total motor movement.

Stem cell research has been disputed upon the point that would it be murder to destroy 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 for artificial conception. Stem cells can be used to replace the damaged cells in the spinal cord which allows a person to walk and move again, giving them the freedom to live out their lives.

So is it murder to kill something which has never been alive? Is it still murder to kill what could have been? So is it still wrong to destroy a zygote which would have 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?