The topic that my partners and I will be researching and writing our annotated bibliography on is stem cell research.  In the world today this is a very controversial topic and would seem to be one for a very long time.  The battle is between religion and the scientific community.  The religious perspective seems to have a firm stance on no stem cell research pertaining to aborted babies.  What most people seem to not understand is that they are not against, but support stem cells harvested from adult humans.  They see the vast knowledge and potential discoveries as a good thing to help mankind.  They are strictly against abortion and thus cannot and will not support stem cell research done by harvesting the cells from fetuses. People talk about solutions to this problem but do not realize that not a whole lot of compromise necessarily needs to be made.  Stem cell research can continue without any hindrance or obstacles by either side if and only if mature adult stem cells were used.  The problem lies in the desire for more, which in this case is not entirely a bad thing.  Scientists want more stem cells but there are more of these specialized cells in a fetus rather than an adult because a fetus is still forming.  A fetus since it is not fully developed has more of the universal stem cells.  Like I said this is not really a bad thing to want more because the more they have the more people they can help and the more lives they could affect or save.  The main thing that needs to be improved is communication between the two parties.