Stem cell veto, need to be educated, are frozen embryo's alive?

Question

Could these embryo's be little people waiting to be born, possibly suspended ina kind of hellish limbo?

Answer 1

These embryos are human life, in its most rudimentary form. True, they have not developed into a baby, but human life nonetheless. There is no awareness. Just as we have absolutely no memory of our 9 months in utero. Why can't we harvest stem cells from the umbilical cords of babies after they are born? Those stem cells are the reason more and more parents are choosing to bank the cord blood.

Answer 2

Well, the frozen embryos are living tissue. However, after the couple have a successful pregnancy, the embryos are discarded as medical waste. If the embryos were used as stem cells the life of the tissue would be preserved and the individuals that were treated would benefit. Keep in mind that stem cell research is being conducted by private funding. All the veto did was deny federal funding for stem cell research. It did not ban stem cell research.

Answer 3

frozen embryos are living yes. It is possible for these embryos to be used for children, yes.

Women who have this process done have dozens of embryos made. After one of these embryos successfully take hold in the woman, there are a lot of embryos left over. Most of these are being saved for future pregnancy.

What do you do with the other embryos once they aren't wanted? Conservatives would have these planted in adopted mother's wombs or rotting in freezers until they are destroyed. They don't intend to destroy them, but they won't find enough woman willing either.

What scientists want to do is use the use the left over embryos for research once it has been determined that no one can find a use for them otherwise.

Bush's view is the worse direction anyone can go. It guarantees that many embryos will be destroyed for no reason.

Answer 4

Technically, yes. Viable or able to exist on it's own, no. They have all they need to develop into a person but they need a host and mother to survive beyond a cellular existence. Many are destroyed each year at fertilization clinics that could be used to further medicine in substantial ways and possibly eradicate things like diabetes and degenerative disorders. After working in a hospital for years and seeing how people can suffer...I think we should use the ones that are being discarded anyway.

Answer 5

NO No NO and Hell No! Science says that The frozen embryo is just that a frozen embryo. Listen to Science not republicans. Republican definition from Webster Dictionary and American Heritage Dictionary- Evil, containing evil, Black magic, Voodoo, President Bush, Dick Cheny.

Answer 6

yes they are alive, they are only a cell but it is still alive, they are used right now for women trying to concieve but the bill they are trying to get passed will allow them to do more research because many different types of cells can form from an embryo, such as stem cells which have been known to cure diseases like lukemia and sickle cell anemia.
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Answer 7

Of course they are "alive." (If not in a state of suspended animation.) The question for some people is, do they have a soul? (That is what President Bush believes...it goes beyond the mere fact of living tissue.) I mean, come on, is a single-celled amoeba "alive?" Of course, it is. That said, many of us have no problem with research being done with such primitive or undeveloped organisms.

Answer 8

The opposite of alive is dead. You cannot take anything dead and make it undead. If they can put an embryo into a mother's womb and grow to be a baby, then they are still alive.

Answer 9

It depends on you..and your belief. Bush believes it is alive and hence he is against stem cell research.

I believe it is alive too..because the cells will soon become the embryo. (Blastocyst). But I'm for stem cell research.

So it depends on your faith and beliefs.

Answer 10

Yes, they are alive, because when they are defrosted and put into a mother's womb they grow into young humans.