Scientists 3-D Print With Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Stem cell research has proven that using embryonic stem cells are not necessary to grow and replicate stem cells, so I doubt this will be controversial.

Most likely, it will be revolutionary for thrusting medical science forward.

In fact it seems like it should be less than controversial since all relevant data indicates that adult stem cells are more useful to resist rejection and that amniotic, placental, and chord blood stem cells all do just about the same thing as embryonic stem cells. The bonus is that these are easier to get and in higher quantities and most are simply thrown away after birth.

Research in induced pluripotence is also going very well. All said there seems to be absolutely no reason for this to be controversial. The only reason that I can figure that embryonic stem cells would still be argued and debated for by anyone is that it relates to other ideological grounds. Ex: If it's not okay to kill embryos for stem cells maybe other reasons to kill embryos are wrong?

Moral issues aside, it seems like the controversy is easily avoidable since embryonic stem cells are much less effective than every other source of stem cells.

This is great!!! Stem cell research is the key to eliminating all of these painful, crippling, debilatating diseases. People shouldn't have to suffer with these diseases. Using embryonic stem cells is not wrong by any means. Cells that are merely a few days old are not fetuses by any definition. I believe that if God is all powerful and omnipotent like he claims to be, then it would seem that by us killing a cell that's a few days old would hardly put a dent in his master plan. Let's just say this cell was considered a human in God's eyes with a unique soul that had been sent from Heaven by God to grow and live on Earth. I think that if we were to prevent that being from entering the Earth by killing it, then God would find some other means of sending that individual to the world, probably by putting that embryo into another woman where he would then use his powers to cause that embryo to be the one to be birthed. By us using an embryo, we're not stopping God's plan. We're not even making a bump in the path.

It would be different if it were a grown, actual human. His/her death would cause many reactions that could be seen and felt here on Earth that God would frown upon. However, this is much different than a cell that's only a few days old. Also, the Bible is not very clear on its stance against the use of embryonic stem cells. Actually, the few remarks it does make regarding stem cells do not say anything about how we shouldn't use stem cells or that it would be bad to use them.

nebulation
02/05/13 at 1:30 pm : "Using embryonic stem cells is not wrong by any means. Cells that are merely a few days old are not fetuses by any definition."

By your definition the "cells" as you wrote are not fetuses. By my definition and by the definition of those who can actually use logic the "cells" ARE an embryo. They are called 'Embryonic Stem Cells'. The adjective 'embryonic' indicates that cells are either an 'embryo' if all cells are used for an experiment or part of an embryo if some of them are used. They are not called 'tree' or 'frog' cells but 'embryonic'. The experiments on tree or frog cells are not a criminal undertaking but experiments on cells of an embryo are because a human in an embryo stage of life is given the status and value of a frog and then used and killed. If somebody did experiments on the stem cells of your arm or leg and to do so had to cut off your limbs and told you : 'it is all right, I am doing experiments only on the stem cells of your arm or leg but not on you', what would have been your answer ?
A human being during his or her existence goes through the stages of life, pre-born and post-born. A pre-born stage of life is an embryonic stage. It might come as a shock to you but you also went through this stage of life and you had the same right to live then as you do now. You became a unique human life, you, when your mother's and your father's genetic codes/material combined in ONE cell to become the unique genetic 'book' of you, the process of your life started right then. You as one cell started to divide and grow immediately. If a 'scientist' then and there decided to make an experiment on embryonic you and at the end of it splashed what was left of you down a toilet, you see this as acceptable ? Was the Auschwitz doctor Mengele a criminal or not ? He did not do experiments on the humans, he did experiments on the subhumans who in his darwinian science book were on the level of the frogs because they were not persons. And they were not persons because they were not fully human, and they were not fully human because many people said so. You see how exciting the science is ? If you want to do experiments on a human life just twist a word or two, redesignate, rename, say "it" is not fully human, it is a blob of cells, a "blob", and then do your experiments. Utter magic, the reality changes with the changing of few words and a human being becomes disposable trash.
You and your like are the prime example and proof of why the domain of the human life cannot be interfered with, decided about and experimented on by the democratic mob, the 'scientists' included. You are too easily swayed and bewitched by the words and actions of the conjurors of science whose truly satanic philosophy is 'The curiosity and the knowledge are above the morality.' Only the Church, the one that refuses to compromise with the 'science', has the exclusive right to judge on the questions relating to human life.

All this moralizing is beside the point and belongs in another forum. These inexorable innovations are taking place outside the US, all this hand-wringing notwithstanding. Only when we release science from the schackles of religion and short-sighted budget restraints will we recover the initiative in technology and create a 21st-Century economic renaissance.