What is more important? Saving embryos that will never be used, or using them to keep brilliant minds like?

Question

that of Stephen Hawkins from being trapped in their own bodies?Stem cell research will go on in full stride, just not here. President Bush says he would rather be right than popular. Recent polls show that he is neither. Think of all the good that can be done with frozen embryos in fertility clinics that will be discarded in any event. I am begging the question I know, but it seems like such a waste.

Frozen embryos in fertility clinics are not human life. Thousands are discarded everyday. The invitero process results in embryos that go unused. They are just discarded after a certain amount of time. Why not use them to save lives. This is a pro life stance. Frozen embryos cannot be implanted in women without a couple's consent, and this is rarely given. Less than 100 frozen embryos have been used to impregnate women who weren't the original donors.

Answer 1

I agree with you. It's a shame the very people who can benefit from an injection of neurons do not understand the need for such research. The vetoed bill proposes to let couples donate only their unused in-vitro embryos. These unused embryos would otherwise go into trash cans anyway. Infertile couples create multiple embryos in laboratory petri dish for future use. There will always be left over embryos from these infertility treatments and these extra embryos are discarded when the woman becomes pregnant. It's a terrible waste to not allow the couples to have the option to donate these extra frozen embryos.

It's up to the European and Asian countries to bail the US out of this debacle.

Answer 2

I think it's really sad to have all the embryos just sitting there in the first place and I really don't have an answer about what to do with them. There are some Christians who never store any embryos because they don't want them destroyed.
As to saving great minds my big problem is that adult stem cell research has had so many big breakthroughs; like treating cancer, and burn victims.
Embryonic looks promising but is there one treatment out of all the research done in so many countries. That's why I hesitate to sacrifice anyone, the embryos, for no reason other than possibly futile research.

Answer 3

You make the HUGE mistake of believing the lies about the embryos that remain saved because of parents who might want to have more kids.

Polls are based on the questions asked. If they had been asking different questions when taking the polls, the polls would give far different results.

For example, if you asked (when taking these polls), "do you favor spending billions of dollars of tax money on totally unproven and unsuccessful research (embryonic stem cell research), which, altho' it has been in research for over 13 years, has only yielded failure, and there is no reason at all to believe it ever will, or would you rather see money spent on research (adult stem cells) which already has yielded cures and hopeful cures [now in clinical trials] numbering in the dozens, which would you choose"? . . .

You would get far different results.

by the way, the president hasn't outlawed embryonic stem cell research, he has only kept my federal tax dollars from being wasted on it.

Maybe you should consider how you are being lied to (and all the people with diseases like Alzheimers are being lied to), being told that, if only we could kill innocent babies and start human cloning (creating people just to take their body parts), then a cure would be just around the corner.

I know Chirstopher Reeve bought into that nonsense, as did Michael J Fox. Too bad nobody that understood the issue got to them before they spouted off and did more damage to the public's understanding of the issue. A cure is NOT just around the corner and it wouldn't be. In fact, because embryonic stem cells are unstable, they break down and result in deadly mutations (and always have in animals when they have been tried).

This is part of the truth you aren't being told, because the major media wants human cloning legal. So did Hitler and Dr Mengele.

By the way, the numbers you have heard on the number of embryos that are being saved is erroneous. the number is far smaller than the alleged 400,000 that has been published, and most all of those aren't available anyway, because the families are saving them in case they want more kids.

You need to start getting your information from other sources than the big three networks, CNN, or the NY Times or the Washington Post.

Answer 4

I don't think it is a question of whether it is a waste of embryos or not. The real topic is "is allowing the use of these embryos opening the door for more research through aborted fetuses". I am all for using technology to help people live better lives, but not at the expense of unborn children. I agree with Bush because if this is allowed, someone, somehow will use this as a foothold to allow more and more research to be done, which means more abortions and more "wasted Life".

Answer 5

Stem cell research is definitely a very controversial topic...so many diseases can be cured, lives can be saved through this research, yet, people refuse to open their eyes to the suffering of those who are living and choose to fight for the life of something that is unborn, which will probably not even suffer!
When does a life start? Nobody knows that, the conception of life itself is a controversy, and critics of stem cell research say that the research will kill those unborn babies. It will put them in suffering.
Its sad, but people can see the suffering of an unborn baby, but not that or a person trapped in his own body, or other problems!
Saving embryos that will never be used is a waste of life, but using them in research will give life to others.

Answer 6

I would much rather prefer keeping brilliant minds. It is basically abortion once the child cannot live. It's stupid how they're willing to give up so many children that will never live. Plus, if they're trying to find stem cell research, I'm sure they can do that with deceased bodies, not just with babies. It's a completly idiotic idea to kill innocent beings. I 100% agree with you.

Answer 7

The only brilliant mind to ever walk the face of the earth is Jesus Christ. All other minds are but footnotes to him. the truly brilliant mind of today follows Jesus and does not worry about stem cell research or freezing embryos. The truly brilliant mind is not afraid of death because he already has eternal life in Christ Jesus. The truly brilliant mind does not walk about spreading atheistic lies, but preaches the gospel of Jesus Christ. The truly brilliant mind looks no further than God's word for the truth. The truly brilliant mind seeks the peace of God rather than the sin of the devil. Be truly brilliant and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Jesus loves you.

Answer 8

I totally agree with you. I think people who prioritize bunches of cells that aren't yet capable of thinking or feeling pain over the lives of the handicapped and chronically ill are too blinded by their dogmas to acknowledge the necessity of stem cells for curing fatal illnesses and crippling injuries. However, I am open to the use of alternative stem cell sources as long as they are as effective in creating the cells needed for treating these conditions.

Answer 9

OK, i see your point but i think to do research on a fertilized egg is to do research on a viable human being and is unethical and tantamount to murder. We must explore other alternatives. We cannot take a human life to save one. Its a dangerous precedent.

Answer 10

I find it extremely perplexing that this was the first bill that Bush vetoed in over 5 years as President.