If Bush hadn't stood his ground, would unethical scientists still be harvesting human embryos for stem cells

Question

"If human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough."

-- James A. Thomson

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Answer 1

Yes, certainly, Bush has done a good thing for human society. Hats off to him.

Answer 2

The "unethical" scientists are still harvesting human embryos... it's the good doctors that are getting screwed by not being able to Ginzu a fetus...

Answer 3

Embryonic stem cell research is still going on, Bush only made it so that the Government would not hold the patents to the research. Private stem cell research is being done globally. You should check your facts before elevating Bush's "accomplishments".

Answer 4

Ethical scientists might well be asking couples with stored embryos whether they could be donated for research instead of being destroyed with no benefit to anyone.

Instead, federally funded researchers are blocked from that, so the unwanted embryos at fertility clinics just go down the drain.

I am profoundly saddened by America's march into theocracy and superstition, and away from world leadership in knowledge and medicine.

Answer 5

Oh yes. It is so evil to help millions of people with brain and nerve damage by harvesting embryos that the mother was going to abort anyway.

Answer 6

The key word is "surmountable."

Eventually? In the meantime human embryos are flushed down the toilet and human beings await cures.

Why don't we extract all unfertilized eggs from every woman on the planet, just in case they might someday consider an abortion?

Answer 7

Unethical? You think that is a word that Bushie know the meaning of? You still do not want to accept the fact that stem cells are always being destroyed, but not it is no longer an issue.

Answer 8

They harvest Baby parts now for experiments
As you read this, it gets very clear why Planned Parenthood is so adamant about protecting the Dilation and Extraction (D&E) procedure (also know as partial- birth abortion). If it is to remove all these organs and get them packaged up for shipment, it wants to keep circulation going in the baby for as long as possible. With D&E, it can kill the baby at the last minute and then rush him into a tissue- recovery room to harvest whatever has been ordered.

Again, there is no indication on the order form as to how much Planned Parenthood will be paid for all this harvesting. However, the Opening Lines price list says it charges its customers the following prices for each of these baby body parts ordered: one thymus ($75); one liver ($125); one spleen ($50); both the leg and arm bone from the same baby ($150); and mesentery ($100).

Most of the baby parts are "needed" for some type of research. Be aware that all kinds of baby parts are ordered, including brains and lungs and hearts and just about every other baby body part. One order actually asked simply for an "embryo." The order specified an embryo with a "gestational age of 4–7 weeks with spinal column intact." The instruction for this particular order was to "remove specimen and prepare within 15 minutes after circulation has ceased." It further stated that the embryo was to be "shipped within 2–3 hours after preparation."

According to the Opening Lines price list to its customers, this "intact embryonic cadaver" will sell for $400.

Remember, technically, they do not charge for the baby itself. The $400 fee is for the "services" of preparing the baby for shipment in the manner specified by the customer. I know this seems like a ridiculous distinction, but it allows them to get around the laws that prohibit the selling of human bodies or body parts.

If you are wondering how these baby parts make their way from the Planned Parenthood abortion facility to the people ordering the parts, the answer is Federal Express. The majority of orders included instructions to use Federal Express

Answer 9

yes...but the ones that were going to be destroyed anyway, now the 4 celled embryos that would have been used are gone, which helped no one. no one is going to take your wife and remove your child as you scream in handcuffs between 2 security officers

Answer 10

Embryonic Stem Cell research is not illegal. We just won't pay for it.

Answer 11

Wow if we were allow think of the diseases we could have cured. Aloo the folks that might still be alive.