My challenge.

Something that affects or may affect people more than they know is stem cell research. Stem cells have the potential of helping and possibly even curing many diseases such as cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and more. This directly affects me because stem cells have the potential to cure or at least help Huntington's disease, which runs in my family. It would be amazing if these horrible disease were able to be prevented or cured. Based on some research and personal experience, it seems the only reason there is any controversy around the subject of stem cell research is because people believe that babies are being killed for this to happen, which is false. Embryonic stem cells are found in fertilized eggs that have been donated to the lab and may only become a couple days old. These eggs are not developed in a woman's body, just ferilized in vitro. Basically the only thing found in these embyos is genetic material; there are no organs, and it should not be considered "killing a baby." The education of how exactly stem cell research is conducted and what it can produce should be more publicly announced so humans can realize the full potential and harmlessness of it.