impact on ES research

I do not know if the way I feel about the importance of stem cell research will ever necessarily have any real impact on it one way or another. However, I do believe that just as is the case in voicing your opinion in an election, getting your opinion and points heard can alter the way others think of the idea. There are probably a great many people out there who really do not even know what stem cells are or where they come from, but simply know only that which they have heard through friends or the media. Perhaps they have not heard of it at all. I will never argue that ES research is not without risks; it definately has many hurdles to jump as of yet. It is for this very reason I think it should be funded on a national level. I cannot think of a single technology within the medical arena that did not require enormous amounts of research and/or clinical trials. With every new discovery comes all the "kinks" that need to be ironed out. Keeping this in mind however, I feel if illnesses that devestate families across the globe can be cured, or even treated more effectively, than every possible option needs to be explored. I guess then the impact my ideas could potentially have would be in educating people to this idea.