its not like you can get them from placentas?
2007-03-20 19:27:23 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i've honestly never heard of the entire "creating a fetus to make cells." i thought they were just pissed about utilizing abortions. which are gross...and i'm a pro-choice athiest
2007-03-20 22:41:47 · update #1
I'm not against stem cells. Never met one, actually.
I'm against killing a baby just to "harvest" some cells to play around in a lab and grow cancer with them. That sounds a little too much like "Soylent Green" for my tastes.
(It's people, It's people!!!!)
Here, have a angel sugarplum cookie and rephrase your question.
2007-03-20 19:29:56 · answer #1 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
You can get stem cells from any number of places. And Christians (in general) support research from stem cells from other areas. The primary problem is creating human life for the sole purpose of destroying it. It all hinges on: if you don't believe an embreyo is human life, then you'll never understand the objection to the research (and abortion as well) from the Christian perspective
Christianity has not always been "anti-science" - indeed many of the country's leading universities and hospitals were founded by religious organizations - in particular Catholics, but also Jewish groups as well.
Unfortunately, extreme fundamentalists (though I'll argue there's nothing fundamental about them) taint the perception of the religion as a whole.
2007-03-21 02:33:25 · answer #2 · answered by wigginsray 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think most Christians are against embryonic stem cell research. Any other kind of stem cell research is fine. The reason is that the embryo is considered a human by Christians. It is a fertilized egg. Most Christians believe that life begins at conception. So, it's the same reason that most are against abortion as well. (When I say 'most' I mean, that's how I perceive popular Christian opinion. There could well be some out there who differ.)
2007-03-21 03:06:47 · answer #3 · answered by Amy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
SLOW down friend...not ALL Christians are against stem cells...I personally don't know enough about them to be for or against them. I'm still fighting against those that want to kill the fully developed adults and children around the world. When people stop killing, raping adultering, worshipping idols...etc THEN, I'll devote more time to the "gnat straining" debate over stem cells.
It is in great measure just the Catholic Church and Evangelicals that are making such a ruccus over stem cells tieing it to abortion thuis murder.
I heard a great quote years ago, can't remember by who, though.
"The catholic church is focused on attacking four main areas of sin. Abortion, abortion, abortion, homosexuals"
For the most part that's true. Who would believe them if they came out now against child molesters and rapist? Better yet, why does anyone believe anything the vatican says?
Judge a tree by its fruit, a good tree doesn't give bad fruit.
2007-03-21 02:36:42 · answer #4 · answered by Kenneth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get stem cells from ambilical cords, but they have to kill the early form of the baby the way researchers want to get them. We are not against stem cells, just the way they are gotten. And the fact that they be funded by the government. If they asked if I wanted to donate the umbilical cord in the hospital after I deliver, I would say yes for sure. They can collect many this way if they wanted. But they just want to harvest them to kill them and Christians consider a baby a baby as soon as the egg is fertalized. We dont consider it just fetal tissue. You are never just a little pregnant .
2007-03-21 02:37:24 · answer #5 · answered by Ms DeeAnn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people wouldn't know a stem cell from an apple seed. But some Christians are against stem cell research because their church tells them that stem cells are evil, and they don't want to research the facts so they just go along with the church.
2007-03-21 02:44:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Umm, yes you can get them from placentas. And from umbilical cords. I don't agree with the act of fertilizing an egg to create an embryo (the first stage in a human life cycle) just to let it grow for a few weeks and then destroy it (stop the human from growing; killing it) just to get stem cells. We can get stem cells from placentas and umbilical cords from when babies are born alive, we can get them from adult humans in their bone marrow. They have even taken them from organs that were going to be used for transplants but didn't get to a recipient in time and instead of just throwing the organ away, they took stem cells from them to use to successfully grow tissues. They have had much success with stem cells from placentas and umbilical cords and adults. The stem cells that have been taken from lab-grown embryos have not been successful at all. They haven't grown any tissues from those. So they should stop making embryos (humans) and killing them. Just use the stem cells that people already have in their own bodies.
Christians are against this because thou shall not kill the innocent. And they are creating humans in a dish and destroying them to gain nothing. This is a sin and God is not happy with these scientists/doctors.
2007-03-21 02:40:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but stem cells also live in umbilical cords! Why KILL a baby to get stem cells, when doctors can get them from the cords. Don't you know that at *least* one thousand babies are born each day in the USA? That's aLOT of cords, AND alot of stem cells!
2007-03-21 02:33:08 · answer #8 · answered by MilkWeed 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Speaking as a Catholic Christian...
Against Ebryonic Stem Cells (i.e. baby farming for scientific experimentation).
For all other kinds of stem cell research.
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2007-03-21 02:33:10 · answer #9 · answered by Peace2U 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian and I am not against stem cells or any scientific thing that will bring the world forward to discover cures, etc.
2007-03-21 02:31:02 · answer #10 · answered by ~ B_e_K_z ~ 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋