do u think embryos should be used in the following purposes - as a source of stem cells, for medical research?

Answer 1

Those are babies you are talking about.


Edit: Ok, I will respond. I realize this is a lesson in futility, but maybe someone who reads this can actually see logic.

Prove to me that they are not human.

Can you show that a distinct change occurs to make this "embryo" into a "baby"?

If your idea of a change is birth, you have reduced the property of "humanity" to a positional state. If someone is not human when inside the womb, and is human when outside of it, who is to say that a person is not human in other places as well?

Answer 2

I'm not sure I do agree with it. I wouldn't like to be the person who makes the decision on it though!

I appreciate it might bring a lot of good one day but I just don't know how comfortable I am with purposely creating life but then not allowing it to live to even be born. It's one thing allowing terminations after accidents/rapes/problems but to create life en masse then destroy it or use it for other purposes seems a bit too much.

Not only that but whenever we mess with nature there are always consequences later on down the line that we didn't forsee. Look at Thalidomide for example...

Doddle you are absolutely right - we have already trashed most of the earth's resources.

My other thought is that by using such research we are actually preventing natural selection from taking place. By increasing the chances of survival and reproduction of faulty genes we are preventing the human race from evolving.

I'm not saying we shouldn't try and prolong or improve life with such terrible illnesses but our focus should be on quality of life. Then the end to misery will be that faulty genes will eventually filter out of the population.

We always rave about the wonders of science and manmade progress but look at the miracles of nature and evolution - we haven't acheived anything near as awe inspiring as evolution and natural selection is the best way to let evolution to continue.

Answer 3

Never, it has been clinically and medically proven that the stem cells used from adults and various other source are much more productive than infanticide sources.

Answer 4

the answer to that would depend on if you were in need of research for stem cell cure then yes .if you were unable to conceive then no and unfortunately if you were going for an abortion would you care .very sad personally no it is a baby .

Answer 5

Now that they can get similar results using the dna from the umbilical chord I think that embryos should not be used.

Answer 6

No reason why not. Could brind an end to misery for thousands of people in one way and an end to misery for thousands on unfortunate animals in another way. Steve is wrong - they are not babies at all which is why they are called embryos!!!

Answer 7

Yes, for medical research with the honorable aim of saving ill people and stopping other from dying of certain illnesses, definitely.

How can someone even consider not trying to search the cure for cancer, just an example, justifying themselves with an embryo (not a baby, in my opinion, just a formation of cells) over people with real lives, with feelings, with memories, with achievements, with future, with goals to achieve, with families, with friends, with thoughts, with sad moments, with happy moments, with failures and dreams...?

Answer 8

Yes. I mean really. It is ok for someone to go in and have it removed from her uterus, but you would rather see it thrown out and discarded like trash ( which it really already had) than to actually be used to further research?

Answer 9

Yes assuming they are just a small group of cells and not 24 week olds

Answer 10

No simply because I think medical research needs to slow down a bit. People live for way too long these days which creates a worrying future for the planet!