Last Friday night, Atexastown High School's star football player was critically injured in a car wreck. Hospital officials have indicated that he has suffered severe spinal cord injury and will not be able to walk again, much less run with the football. Dr. Medico stated that the only hope for a full recovery of the athlete was embryonic stem cell research. President Bush has said that research using embryonic stem cells involved "great promise, and great peril." He decided against allowing federal funding for embryonic stem cell research except for the 60 lines already being used. This meant nothing to you until your star football player was paralyzed in the car wreck. You will research the advantages and disadvantages of stem cell research in order to determine if the embryonic stem cell research is the only choice.
