Why don't Republicans have any qualms throwing 400,000 embryos away, but are horrified if they are used to...

Question

find cures for horrible diseases. I find this position to be hypocritical and perhaps even immoral.

Answer 1

I KNOW!!! If the embryos already exist and are going to be destroyed anyway isn't better to honor their "lives" by helping to save someone else. It would give purpose and meaning to their existence instead of resulting in an arbitrary, pointless "death." I know I would rather have someone I loved honored by having their existence mean something.

Answer 2

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Tony Snow, Whitehouse Press Secretary, said that GW Bush does not support murder. He then followed it up by saying stem cell research is not illegal, that private companies can continue to do the research, it will just not be funded by the federal government. Here, I shall try to argue like the Rapture Right: Stem cell research is murder. Stem cell research is not illegal. Private companies can murder because it is not illegal.
The real science, however, say this; It all begins with the five to seven days after conception. This is the time period during which embryonic stem cells can be harvested. Most on the right believe that life begins at the moment of conception. So many believe that to kill the cytoblast (the term for the embryo at this particular stage) is amoral and should not be done. i.e. It is murder.
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.
The Rapture Right's logic on this subject then leads me to believe that it is better to throw life in a garbage can than to use it for research and possible cures to diseases.
The embryos are frozen, they have 150 cells, they aren't even embryos, they are cytoblasts. They already exist and the Rapture Right would rather put them in the trash than in a laboratory.

Answer 3

I find this an interestingly stupid situation too. If I was murdered, my family would have the right to donate my body to medical or crime scene research so long as it doesn't go against my wishes.

Why is the situation any different for embryos? The embryos are to be killed, therefore, parents should have the right to donate the cells to federally funded research just like they would have the right to do in 9 months if the baby dies after pregnancy.

But that wouldn't serve the anti-abortion cause. Anti-abortion people are going in the direction of irrelevancy.

Answer 4

I agree with you. Hypocritical and immoral. All pandering to get votes, but not willing to close down fertility clinics that help the constituency conceive if they can't easily have children. They're caught between a rock and a hard place with that issue. Either they just resign to being inconsistent as they seem to be doing now, shut down fertility clinics, or allow for left over embryos to be used in research. The latter is WAY better than throwing them away!

Answer 5

We are already paying for NON embryonic Stem cell research. There is no documentation or studies to suggest that we will derive any additional benefits from Embryonic stem cells. So we are not funding them. The researchers can use the Embryonic stem cells, the American public just won't support it. So you can relax, the stem cell research is going on as we speak and the government IS funding a good portion of it.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The whole field of genetics is a giant slippery slope. What would Hitler have done had he the knowledge to engineer human genetics? Created an army of warriors?

Answer 8

Even better question would be, if fertilitly clinics create these exess embryos......which will be destroyed and hence murdered.

why don't they justify banning and closing down fertility clinics.

really i want to know.

Answer 9

thats why the U.S. is going to fall behind in medical research
P.S. bush only did this for political gain, his main supporters now are christian fundelmentalists.

Answer 10

cuz they're nuts...