Nowadays, the medical field has evolved up to a point that new breakthroughs are being discovered at the speed of light. One of the most important, but also controversial aspects, is the embryonic stem cell research. It all began in 1964, when scientists began their embryonic stem cell research on a type of cell from a tumor. Then, in 1981, the embryonic stem cell research continued on mice. It was only in 1998 that specialists managed to complete a embryonic stem cell research on humans. Since then, they have been improving this technique every year, but the controversies about this subject prevents them form carrying on with their work.

This is why it is so important to  support the embryonic stem cell research. People should understand that in the future, the embryonic stem cell research can lead to the treatment of many diseases, and the death rate will be significantly lower. Throughout the years, people have participated in many polls, and all of them showed that the population highly supports the embryonic stem cell research. Then why are so many people against it? There are even states in the US where the embryonic stem cell research was banned. Then, during the Bush administration, the president did no longer allow the researchers to touch the federal funds for embryonic stem cell research purposes. The private research was not prohibited, but still, even the pharmaceutical corporations could not afford to conduct the embryonic stem cell research much further.

In California, the 2004 voters approved a $3 billion fund for the embryonic stem cell research. Things did not look the same in Iowa, Michigan, South Dakota and Arkansas, where the embryonic stem cell research was strictly prohibited. For the embryonic stem cell research to keep going, people must show their support. After all, researchers are doing their best and they are spending all of their time conducting the embryonic stem cell research, for all of our sakes. If they manage to complete the embryonic stem cell research, the future of humanity will be improved forever, and medicine as we know it will never be the same.