Take a minute to imagine a world where some of the diseases once considered life-threatening or life-impairing could be cured. Diseases like lupus, Lou Gehrig's disease, arthritis and many others may very well be treatable. Many would consider a treatment like this a miracle, but the miracle treatment is this, which can help many people relieve their pain and help change the dismal quality of life that countless others face, but which is nevertheless denounced as an act against God. ? What if I told you that this life-changing biomedical research is not being done, but rather is being deliberate, tarnished and sidelined by American politics and scorned in the court of public opinion because of a bad interpretation. This very search is something we hear all over the news and in politics; considered by some politicians to be one of the key elements in their journey to political stardom and election, stem cell research, especially now that techniques are being developed to create stem cells from a person's own body tissue. individual. Every day we hear about these amazing unspecialized cells, and we continue to hear that other researchers around the world are discovering new uses for them every day. Yet our government has refused to support such life-changing research. Why didn't the government support this groundbreaking medical research? I believe our government should support stem cell research clinics with federal funds to help save the lives of countless Americans, noting that the benefits of such research far outweigh the harms. There are many topics in America that no one talks about, unless they are. are extremely close to the person with whom they are discussing it, or they are...... middle of paper ......January 1, 2008 .The President's Council on Bioethics. September 2003. January 17, 2008. Wanjek, Christopher. A breakthrough in stem cells could stifle research. November 27, 2007. November 30, 2007. What is a stem cell? June 21, 2007. November 27, 2007. Master, Zubin, Marcus McLeod and Ivar Mendez. Benefits, risks and ethical considerations in applying stem cell research to clinical applications in Parkinson's disease. Rep. Journal of Medical Ethics, April 5, 206. Web. March 23, 2010. .Sanberg, PR “Neural Stem Cells for Parkinson's Disease: Protect and Repair.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104.29 (2007): 11869-1870. Print.