Legalization of Stem Cell Research Cloning

Wow, this site was AMAZING: Stem cells: Research tools and clinical treatments by Michael C Fahey and Euan M Wallace. I have gained so much information about stem cell research by reading this academic journal. I have also gained information on adult stem cells whereas much of my focus was on embryonic stem cells.

According to this journal a team of scientist, Takahashi and Yamanaka (at left) were able to make adult stem cells omnipotent.

By making them into Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells or iPS. They are still doing work on it attempting to perfect it but they were able to create it which is a breakthrough! The embryonic stem cell still remains the "golden standard" but if perfected the iPS would be able to surpass all ethical dilemmas cloning has created! All the problems with getting the law passed because of pro-life republicans will go down the drain because we will not be using embryos.

Australia (at right) has already jumped on this wagon and legalized somatic cell nuclear transfer or SCNT which is basically cloning an embryo and using those stem cells. Reproductive cloning as Zavos had attempted is still illegal but therapeutic cloning, as they call it, is legal now. This still brings up controversy and is harder to accomplish but they are farther than all other countries such as America.

I think the United States of America seems to be taking one step forward and three steps back. If the United States would just allow the ability to start cloning and further the research of iPS that could create a gateway to saving, like I said and will keep saying, COUNTLESS lives.

We could have bone marrow transplants done by only using one needle and one person. We could cure sickle cell anemia, leukemia, cystic fibrosis and other types of cancer. We could actually cure cancer, the one disease that all doctors are stumped on. No more chemotherapy, and all the awful and horrible side effects along with it.

So all the information that I have gathered leads me to ask one last question:
Why have we not legalized Stem Cell Research Cloning?