2007-06-28 00:42:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Tell me what the process involves and then I'll tell you whether it is ethical or not.
If it's for the purpose of helping a couple get pregnant.....then that's good.
If an embryo is being destroyed....that's not good....then it's murder.
2007-06-28 00:44:59 · answer #1 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Know the whole stem-cell debate? About taking fertilized eggs and using them to create organs and tissues to heal diseases? Where do you think the eggs are comming from? Fertility treatments involve fertilizing multiple eggs from a woman, and implanting them. If Christians believe that life begins when sperm meets egg, that means life started for sometimes a dozen or more children, all but one of which will be thrown out (or, legislation willing, used to save lives).
Edit:
Epidavros: Current research only proves that 60-80% of fertilized eggs are lost prior to implimentation in mammalian species, with humans being closer to 80%, not 95. Unless you've seen a journal later than the one I read 8 months ago, which is entirely possible.
2007-06-28 07:47:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your first answer more or less sums it up. They have no concept of what life is or where it begins, and so base it on emotive hubris and vague interpretation of a 2000 year old book.
On the basis of "all loss of an embryo is murder", then most fertilisation leads to murder. Around 95% or more of fertilised embryos are killed naturally before they implant in the womb.
On the basis that the loss of every egg is murder, we could overpopulate the planet with just one or two women!
And if life does not begin at the egg or embryo, where does it begin? If they seriously cannot tell the difference between killing a doctor (which they have done) and killing a bunch of a few hundred cells then they are clearly following a less than worthless religion.
2007-06-28 07:53:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is the same concept as not using methods of birth control. I feel that (in a marriage) birth control is necessary. God tells us that a husband and a wife are to enjoy each other's bodies. But I don't think that we are supposed to have 20+ kids. There must be an allowance for it.
2007-06-28 07:46:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I guess it would be the nature of the treatments. That would be like birth control. The method, such as preventing conception, verses aborting a baby.
2007-06-28 07:51:38 · answer #5 · answered by RB 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they believe only God can bless you with children and if he doesnt the natural way, then you are not in his scheme of plans with regards to procreation...and so you must not take matters into your own hands.*rolls eyes*
2007-06-28 07:51:51 · answer #6 · answered by chryshal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they think it is not "natural".
2007-06-28 07:48:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋