...from embryos that are absolutely, 100% going to be destroyed anyway (for instance, unwanted or damaged invitro embryos)? Or should we waste the stem cells?
2007-01-12 17:15:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Can you please explain WHY you feel the way you do? Not just a 'yes' or 'no'. Thanks.
2007-01-12 17:20:28 · update #1
I think the whole thing is silly. If the embryos are going to be destroyed, why waste them? The same should go for aborted fetuses and miscarried babies and so one (as long as the parents don't mind, of course, I mean).
Isn't it more important to save lives than to worry about "precedence" and "slippery slopes" that will probably never come to pass???
2007-01-12 18:25:04 · answer #1 · answered by Aeryn Whitley 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
No , as I believe that the good out ways any negative aspects or
objections , especially based on religious beliefs. If ANYONE
says that to take stem cells is immoral , I will only accept
their objection IF they renounce every and all forms of killing.
We kill millions of people every year , directly and indirectly.
Christian nations have often been at the forefront of genocide
mass poisoning by chemicals , warfare etc. Don't tell me
these people care about life, they're total hypocrites.
Currently in Iraq , the use of D.U. ( radioactive) ammunition
by our troops , are causing horrible birth defects to both the
Iraq peoples as well as our own troops. It's abortion central.
So-these same people object to a group of cells the size of a
pinpoint but keep quiet about mass murder -of our own people!
A few days ago ( 01/08/07) scientist announced that it will be
possible to obtain stem cells WITHOUT using the precious
waste embryos , the cells are obtained in the amniotic fluids
of the living mother. The Catholic Church came out and
gave it's approval of this method. Hopefully this will shut the
hypocrites up.
2007-01-12 17:35:04 · answer #2 · answered by mindfeederz 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They (which potential Fundies) say that embryos have souls. never strategies that those used for stem cellular learn are clusters of roughly 4 cells entire. in addition they look below the impression that grownup stem cells are greater advantageous. This ignores the certainty that grownup stem cells are *multipotent* - they'd grow to be a limited type of alternative cellular types. Embryonic stem cells are *pluripotent* - they'd exchange into **any** cellular type. that's why they are plenty greater powerful to medical learn. in addition they say that grownup stem cells have borne greater medical advancements. they don't look to understand that this merely may be simply by fact there exchange right into a **ban on embryonic stem cellular learn**. of direction you're gonna get greater effects from option B once you at the instant are not allowed to objective option A! Addition: there is likewise a false impression that embryonic stem cells come from abortions. that's not possibly real. they are harvested from the frozen embryos leftover from IVF remedies (IVF includes created quite a few embryos and implantiing one or 2 at a time until it takes). If not used for stem cellular learn, those leftover embryos could merely be destroyed. it is the greater advantageous option: throwing them right into a medical incinerator, or utilising them to discover remedies for horrendous ailments?
2016-10-19 22:11:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your point could soon become moot. Recently in the news there was a story on stem cell research that suggests stem cells taken from amniotic fluid can be used to treat all kinds of diseases.
2007-01-12 17:21:08 · answer #4 · answered by David S 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't agree with stem cell research if they are going to use embryos. They would'nt use a damaged one, it would have been disposed of. They can get stem cells from the birth cord, and it was on the news the other night about a new way of getting stem cells that arn't from embryos. I would agree with that.
2007-01-12 17:24:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
You can get stem cells from other sources than embryos.
Cord Blood, for example. Do you know that if everyone donated Cord Blood there wouldn't be such a need to harvest embryos for stemcell research... Oh... but no one wants to hear about that.
2007-01-12 18:30:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm all for stem cell research. If the fetus is going to die anyway from abortion then we should use the stem cells. It's retarded not to use them. They could have saved Christopher Reeve.
2007-01-12 17:24:38 · answer #7 · answered by Autumn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that if a teen-age girl gets an abortion, and signs a paper donating her embryo to stem cell research (NO $ INVOLVED), we should take whatever we can get...
2007-01-12 17:19:42 · answer #8 · answered by Angela M 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There is no problem with such research period, and those who try to oppose it know this. The next time someone gets sent to prison for masturbation or having fertility treatments, then we'll finally have seen a coherent position on this debacle.
2007-01-12 17:20:23 · answer #9 · answered by neil s 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have no moral objection to the scientific research of blastocysts. If it helps humanity ~ it's all good.
2007-01-12 17:24:17 · answer #10 · answered by ♥michele♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋