Should they allow prisoners serving life to volunteer for medical research thus speeding up public use.?

allowing for human testing sooner would make safer drugs for public use but many think that the medical community would be taking advantage of someone in a this situation.

Should they allow prisoners serving life to volunteer for medical research thus speeding up public use.?
It has been proven numerous times that animal testing is pointless, because more often than not, when tests of a product are performed on humans, the results are very different that they were when the tests were performed on animals, so the animals were tortured by souless people for no reason.





Murderers, rapists and child molesters should be used for testing. At least then they could actually be giving back from the society that they took from, instead of just enjoying themselves in prison.
Reply:Well, the way I see it, victims do not give their consent to be raped or murdered. So why should rapists and murderers get the choice? Most of them would say no, then continue relaxing while the taxpayers pay for it. Report Abuse

Reply:you forget one thing the people you are talking about is doing there time and have rights in my opion if they want to do this testing for medical schools and understand it i dont see why not ?
Reply:Sure, works for me IF the prisoners give their consent.
Reply:This is a great idea! Why wait for them to volunteer? They need to repay society for what they did somehow.





P.s. For the people that said it would be morally unethical...wasn't what the criminal did morally unethical as well? Shouldn't they lose their rights when they CHOOSE not to follow the law!
Reply:It is ethically unacceptable to use prisoners for human experiments. Their condition is inherently coercive, even if you do not offer relief from sentence of some kind.





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Reply:No. It's morally unethical to use prisoners as guineas pigs to test drugs that normal human forbade. May they be prisoners on life or death row, they're served with their due punishment by the country judicial system, getting them to do more/less will only contempt the passing of law and compromise the values equality. On the contrary, if exceptions are allowed, what do you think will come next for the prisoners? Get them to donate their organs to help the needy? Or strapped them up with C4s explosive and sent them to Iraq to counter terrorists...??
Reply:I'm not a scientist, so I can't fully explain why it's a good idea to wait to a certain point prior to testing on humans. It is possible that there is no reason to test on humans until after tests on animals are performed. It's a lot faster to test on mice because they reproduce faster and things like that. But, assuming the inmates were fulling informed of the possible risk and were not coerced in any way to participate in the studies, then I don't see a reason why they shouldn't be allowed to volunteer.
Reply:yes
Reply:I do not agree with this, but it the prisoners are willing to do this without any outside interference I think that they have a right to give what they can back to the community if they choose to.