It is immoral to perform stem cell research. Starbuck recently commented on Bush "imposing his moral view." She might be right, the morals he holds are not in alignment with everyone and he is forcing his moral values on us. However, stem cell research is immoral; the forced funding through taxation of stem cell research is wrong. I don't want to have to pay for it.
Property rights exist. If you don't think so, give me your wallet the next time we are together. Why not? You have no right to your property. I think they do exist, so I will not give you my wallet. The question becomes does a person own his own body. We would all think it wrong to force anyone to do something against their will with their body. In fact, bodily crimes are the most heinous: murder and rape. Forcing someone to do anything with their voluntary agreement is wrong. So it seems to reason we own our own bodies, they are not in possession of some authority.
If we own our own bodies, then by what right do our creators have to dispose of us in anyway they want? If an adult dies and gives his body to science, he has entered into a voluntary agreement to have his property experimented with. It doesn’t matter that he is dead. I’m intentionally staying away from the morality of how he died because I’m avoiding the abortion debate.
None one would expect our property rights to cease to exist after we die. Imagine dying and people reading about your death and coming and looting everything you had. Some say, it doesn’t matter you are already dead. I have nothing against that if you made a voluntary decision to do that. Some say, they aren’t developed enough to make that choice. That is horrible. I couldn’t imagine taking invalids and harvesting organs because they didn’t say “no”. They aren't developed enough to make that decision.
They are using bodies without consent of the owners of that body and that is immoral. I don’t have a single problem with adult stem cell research; the donors freely made that choice. Nevertheless, I don’t think anyone should be forced to pay for anything against their will. It doesn’t matter what their drives their will.