Why is it better to flush embryos down the toilet rather than use them for research?

Question

Stem cell research is done on embryos that are generally left over from infertility treatments. Usually when a couple gets pregnant, they don't need or want the extra embryos that were generated during the procedure, and they are absolutely entitled to discard them. No one has the right to take those embryos away from them and use them to attempt to impregnate someone else. So isn't it better to use those unwanted embryos for research instead of destroying them? That is the real choice.

Answer 1

I think the debate is more about allowing for the growth of embryos for no purpose other than for tissue harvesting. That is where the main opposition is. The opposition to the Stem-cell Bill is against the growing of embryos in a clinical setting for the sole purpose of using them for research.

Regardless of which side of the issue you are on, you need to understand where the other side is coming from. Only by doing this will the House and Senate come up with a middle ground that either the President will not veto or Congress will have enough support to override a Presidential veto. The bill as it currently stands does not meet that standard.

Answer 2

There is a group of people out there that do not want to admit that abortion happens, and that the embryo is actually disposed of rather than put in a coffin and buried. There is also a sub-group of people that believe that by allowing research on embryos might promote abortions. These people have their right to believe these ideas, but shouldn't there be a choice by the parent? The parent of a born child has the right to choose whether the child's organs can be donated in the event of brain death, so isn't this in the same line of "choice"? The U.S. is behind the rest of the world in stem cell use, such as heart repair that is currently being used in Europe. Sad!

Answer 3

Yes this is exactly correct. I've often wondered why those who are anti-stem cell research don't attack invetro-fertilization instead of research that actually puts something wasted to use. My only conclusion is that they are brain washed into not thinking of this. Hope that bill gets passed with enough votes to override a veto. Its just senseless to waste embryos by throwing them in the garbage when they could at least do some good for research.

Answer 4

Some believe the embryos should not have been created in the first place.

Creating life to destroy it just so someone can have a shot at having a child seems a bit selfish.

This will be debated until the end of time.

Answer 5

Some people believe that embryos are living beings from the time of conception, and that any desecration of the body is sacrilege. I know some people who think that anyone who has been cremated will be kept out of heaven.

Answer 6

If more people understood that stem cell research is for a POSITIVE outcome on other things... we'd all be a little bit better off. Its not like we're KILLING anything specifically for the research, we simply want to use that which is extra.

Answer 7

I'm not quite sure they flush them down the toilet, but I totally agree with the idea that they should be used for stem cells. There is no moral reason to not do so.

Answer 8

Just typical right wing, ultra conservative blather. It is not better to dump them down the drain, but they draw a very sharp line. Nothing is relative to them.

It's a lot like how they call for the death penalty for abortion doctors, or bomb abortion clinics and at the same time tell how precious life is...

Just using common sense would solve many problems.

Answer 9

it has no business in the lab in the first place thats a tool of GOD for one for 2 if man would not sell everything for a profit then i may be blessed but dats like telling the isreali to pack up and leave the old palestine. ummmmmmmmm

Answer 10

Nope thats not the best starting point for a discussion on this topic.
Embryos arent the best source for research anyway.