2006-12-14 14:38:39 · 25 answers · asked by GellyBelly 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
no...because "fetus" is just another term used for infant...
just like abortion is a term used for murder. ...and "downsizing' is used for firing people.
just makes things seem cozier...but doesn't change reality.
2006-12-14 14:40:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
There are many different ways of looking at this. Would you donate your body to science, or have an autopsy done to indicate the cause of death? If you were to answer yes , it's basically considered the same thing as experimenting on a fetus. The only difference is the fetus can't choose, but if you choose for them, there death could account for something. I know when it's my time I want my death to be accountable, other then the fact I'm 6ft. under or turned to ashes....why not save a life! Is it moral? Morals are different for everyone. I wouldn't want this world to go the GATTACA extreme, but we do need more medical break through.
2006-12-14 14:59:30 · answer #2 · answered by Aces 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It would all depend on who you speak with.
In my opinion it is moral to experiment on an unborn human fetus that was aborted. This way science and medicine could find many issues that plague people today.
But then you get into the debate about abortion. Everyone has their own views and it really comes down to what the parent of the aborted fetus says is alright to do with it.
Since I'm for it let me explain abit, I lost my grandfather to Alzheimer's and my husband's grandmother is in advance stages of it. If it could be caught and studied within a fetus then one day our loved ones would not have to suffer.
2006-12-14 14:48:31 · answer #3 · answered by Reannon L 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it relatively is an organism that would no longer sense discomfort, or go through in any respect. would not strike me as ethically complicated. As a rhetorical element, i would not stay on the semantics of embryo as against fetus, except you're arguing that by making use of definition, a fetus possesses some trait that alters the moral question, and it is not sparkling to me that it is the case.
2016-10-14 23:37:07 · answer #4 · answered by fanelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate these half questions.... anyway, how can you experiment on a fetus if it's inside the mother? Are you talking about stem cell research? Why don't you just say that?
2006-12-14 14:41:03 · answer #5 · answered by not2nite 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The really cool thing about science is that it does not place moral judgment's. In fetal tissue, scientists can get stem cells that could cure many, many lethal diseases. If you personally don't believe in such current medical breakthroughs, you have the choice to refuse such treatment. I, on the other hand, want to have the choice to use stem cells to live as long as I possibly can!
2006-12-14 14:45:03 · answer #6 · answered by wendy h 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely not, my opinion is that most of us have a instinct to protect our young regardless of danger to us.Just watch the news, notice the public reaction when a child is killed, hurt, abused. We are outraged that a innocent has been hurt. To many of us the of the most venerable of us is to be used to experiment or even sacrificed for any reason, especially a old selfish person that only values their own life. This goes against the Law of Nature for me!
2006-12-14 15:10:18 · answer #7 · answered by Joyce D 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i dont think its any less moral than experimenting on a dead adults body, once the soul leaves the body its not a person or baby anymore anyway, so i dont think its immoral, but i could see how it could easily upset ppl
2006-12-14 14:44:03 · answer #8 · answered by steven d 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really. But it is with the unethical and immoral experiments that science is able to make quantum leaps in knowledge.
2006-12-14 14:42:30 · answer #9 · answered by Grand Master Flex 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
depends on what happened. I honestly think people are gonna abort anyway, might as well put it to good use rather than letting the baby die in vain.
If its a miscarriage then no.
2006-12-14 14:43:00 · answer #10 · answered by sweet_g_grl 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it's being terminated, there's no reason why the tissue should not be available for research.
2006-12-15 03:10:42 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋