I kinda get the feeling that with todays veto the president has said this is ok.
2006-07-19 12:50:15 · 11 answers · asked by PARKERD 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Its a fact that unused embryos are destroyed so my queston stands.
2006-07-19 12:58:57 · update #1
Dont beleive me do a Yahoo search on unused embryos...draw your own conclusions.
2006-07-19 13:01:29 · update #2
What a question. Makes one wonder, doesn't it? How about necessity? According to conservatives, it is not necessary to have an abortion under any circumstance-including rape & incest. But with unused embryos (for invitro fertilization), the embryos are owned by someone (the egg from the mother & the sperm from the father) which are already fertilized in the petri. They could not possibly implant them all in the females uterus, I believe 7 (septuplets) are the maximum born to date, and that too was a fertilization process (injections) and not in vitro. The septuplets born were not all born 'healthy'. There are many ethical issues @ stake. If I'm not mistaken, I believe 4 is the maximum a Dr will implant @ one time. Therefore, the rest need to be destroyed as there is currently no way to save them and they are owned by the mother & father, no one else.
The veto is a sad thing for America. We have the capability to cure diseases with continued research in the US. And we were only 4 votes shy of over riding the veto in Congress. Seems certain polititans care more about Star Wars than curing disease. How sad. Regardless of political affiliation.
2006-07-19 13:14:47 · answer #1 · answered by Nancy L 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What is it you think the President has said is ok? Disposing of unused embryos? Not at all. He believes that exploiting embryos in a search for disease cures that may in fact yield nothing at all, when the same sort of cells are available from other sources, is wrong. He isn't vetoing a bill about "waste not, want not". The Supreme Court decided that unborn children in general are disposable, not the President.
2006-07-19 19:57:11 · answer #2 · answered by dragonwych 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disposing of unused embryos is disposing if embryos that people were keeping for fertilization and decided not to use.
Very different from abortion!
The president is an ignorant monkey!
2006-07-19 19:54:19 · answer #3 · answered by Who?Me? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What??!
The President just vetoed the stem cell bill to PREVENT the destruction of so-called "unused" embroys from fertility clinincs BECAUSE this would be tantamount to abortion. Signing the bill would have forced every American to fund, through our tax payments, the killing of human embryos so they could be harvested for their stem cells. I don't believe that fertility clinics should be allowed to create "extra" embryos during their treatments, thereby preventing much of the loss of life suffered because of modern fertility treatment methods, but today's bill has nothing to do with that.
2006-07-19 19:57:08 · answer #4 · answered by Grant D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's really not much of one.
I've never been a fan of IVF for this reason. Why spend all that money to create all those embryos that will just be destroyed when you could adopt one of many children who need a family?
The president vetoed today's bill because it would legitimize the process of creating unwanted embryos.
2006-07-19 20:01:54 · answer #5 · answered by bakkster_man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would imagine, technically speaking, because the embryos, never began life inside the womb, makes it somehow, property of the donor and or whom the donor has designated it to. I'm sure there are laws that could possibly represent the 'rights' of the embryo, as property, not a person. And as far as an aborted fetus, once it leaves, the womb, it becomes nobody's property.
2006-07-19 20:02:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like that to me, too. I think that if embryos are going to be disposed of or aborted any way then why not use them for stem cell research and make their short lives have meant something.
2006-07-19 19:58:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are correct and the Rapture Right fails to see it. When a couple decides they no longer want any more invitro procedures done, the companies that do the procedures are under the obligation to destroy the remaining supply of cytoblasts, the very same cytoblasts that could otherwise be used for stem cell research.
2006-07-19 20:24:43 · answer #8 · answered by MishMash [I am not one of your fans] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If people choose to dispose of Embryos and Women choose to have abortions, so be it. It's their choice.
2006-07-19 19:55:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There isn't one. Thats why true pro-lifers take issue with the "selective abortion" of embryos when too many "take" during an invetro fertilization.
2006-07-19 19:53:55 · answer #10 · answered by BarbwireNRoses 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋