the cells are coming from left over in vetro fertilization? Left overs are destroyed anyways whether someone thinks it is right or wrong. They are literally being thrown away. Why not use them for something that could have a HUGE impact on medicine?
2006-07-06 10:54:15 · 19 answers · asked by Mike Hunt 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow religious folks have trouble focusing on the question. I didn't ask if IVF is wrong. I asked why, IF we are already destroying life (as you believe it to be) why not make some good of it. Do you feel that performing autopsies it bad? This "life" (if you believe it is at this stage) is already soon to be dead!!! Why not learn from it.
2006-07-06 11:14:02 · update #1
because chrisatians beleive that somehow biomatter is sacred....soon theyll try to pass laws that state that biomatter along with a 50 foot radius around it is also scared.
i cant wait til religion no longer has the ability to stop technological and medical advancements.
2006-07-06 10:58:01 · answer #1 · answered by johnny_zondo 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The cells are fertilized eggs that, if implanted (talking in vitro), or not removed from a womb, will develop into a human being. Your position in this case depends on whether you think abortion is wrong and when you think life begins.
Alternative sources include amniotic fluid after a birth takes place or, later, lower grade stem cells can be obtained from bone marrow and there are moves to do research using these, but the best way to get the most, best quality stem cells is to use an aborted fetus that has already divided in the womb several times. That takes this back to the Pro-life/choice debate
2006-07-06 11:14:33 · answer #2 · answered by QED 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said stem cell research is wrong? I don't know any reasonable person who thinks this.
The issue is WHERE do you get the stem cells from?
Many people believe life begins at conception, and it is wrong to use human life for medical research. If you don't know why, read about the Nazi's. They took defenseless and powerless people and used them for horrible experiments "for the good of the Aryan race". If you have a sensitive mind at all, you see the chilling parallel.
Again ... stem cell research is NOT wrong ... but the ethical questions of what this raw material really is are not clear, nor resolved.
Except for the community of idiots, who the Nazi's would have chosen to be stem cell donors at birth ... its a vicious circle.
2006-07-06 12:02:28 · answer #3 · answered by robabard 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In vitro fertilization requires the production of a few zygote (embryos) in order to insert into a woman's uterus. Extras are produced in case the first attempt to fertilize fails. The argument goes that using stem cells from discarded embryos will encourage doctors to produce a few extra zygote.
I agree that the logic is flawed. Many opponents to stem cell research are also against the practice of in vitro fertilization. Many are not and they lack all integrity
2006-07-06 11:02:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So it's okay to do something wrong if something good comes from it? So the ends justify the means?
NO!
Are the Nazi's more moral for having conducted research on the Jews they murdered? They could have burned all their bodies. Why not use them for something good?
IVF is wrong and experimenting on the victims doesn't make it right.
2006-07-06 10:58:42 · answer #5 · answered by jacquefromtexas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Life begins at conception where you receive your soul. God doesn't see an embryo, he sees what that person looks like at 40! The embryo is destroyed before it gets a chance to grow and live ou its life.
This is the result of IVF. IVF is immoral and evil. IVF goes against God and marriage.
2006-07-06 11:00:45 · answer #6 · answered by enigma21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the post I've listed as a source, it's a mortal sin in Catholicism to perform invitro fertilization anyway, so the humane thing to do would be to use the cells, which will be destroyed anyway, to help mankind. Afterall, as long as you're sinning....
2006-07-06 11:19:56 · answer #7 · answered by lalasnake 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because right now the christian rite is powerful and they think it is destroying a life to use the eggs and such for invetro fertilization, its also "playing god" to extend the life through the life of another. they want the man made ideal of god to be all powerful and choose who lives and dies, instead of the man made real cure to the problem
2006-07-06 10:59:13 · answer #8 · answered by marishka 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is basically a smokescreen issue, which has no real ideological benefit. Jews have no issue with it and they are refering to the same biblic law. better the attention is on these issues than on the economy, jobs, welfare, education.... Emotive pro-life issues can win elections, if people are more focussed on their taxation and the state of the economy then they can lose elections.
2006-07-06 11:03:59 · answer #9 · answered by Chris C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as it does not cost a human life (i.e. abortion) to get the materials needed to do the research, I don't know why it would be wrong. I think that there can be a successful advancement of this science without having to murder innocent lives.
2006-07-06 10:59:08 · answer #10 · answered by itsjustme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋