Thanks, they don't say where they get the embryo's from so I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say that they come from abortions, no? I'm not for banning abortions, but I find them morally appauling! There are very few cases where I would find them morally acceptable, and I am not of a mind to say "Well people are doing it so we might as well use them for research.". At what point is it that abortion clinics exist to perform abortions for the benefit of the expectant mother or to "harvest" stem cells from aborted embryos?

 

I find abortion unethical, but to each thier own. Constalletion, the visual you described was uncalled for in my humble opinion.

 

They use eggs that would be thrown away. They don't take them from mothers. I don't know where your getting this from. Abortions are not a easy thing for woman to have, I wish we had a woman in here she could explain it better than I could ever wish too. Simply put its a very emotional and physical ordeal. No one in there right mind would have a partial birth abortion. Don't fall for that gemic that the religious right is spewing.

Link

http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/faqs.asp#wherefrom

 

The egg must be fertilizes before it can become an embryo so they do get them from mothers. If not you are telling me that they are from envitro ferilization? I highly doubt that since the success rate for envitro is so small.

 

When do you think life starts?

Better question: Are you a catholic?

 

If death is the when the heart and brainwaves cease, I'd logically say that life starts when they start.

 

Nope not a catholic. I'm not attending any church right now.

 

I'd say logically that being alive is when your not dead, and being dead is when you can no longer be kept alive. Clear as mud.

 

Everyone who opposes stem cell research really needs to do some research on the topic before they talk about it.

The stem cells come from embryos that would be discarded after a couple has been successfully (or unsuccessfully) fertilized through in utero fertilization. They are just going to be thrown away. We might as well use them to do some living humans some good.

Go here and read about it before you develop your opinion.

http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp

 

Your sperm is a potential human heing. Stop nutting in a towel. The "life" is leftovers from invitro fertilization that would otherwise be thrown away. Do you propose we do away with I.F.?

-Chris

 

Almost all of the embryos they use are from fertility clinics. In other words, they are 'spares' that people make in case the embryo they have implanted doesn't work. So these embryos would either A) be thrown away or B) used for stem cell research. Which option is better mother f***er?!?!


As you can see I take it very personally that people are so damn ignorant they think we are creating life just to kill it for the sake of research.

 

Well stem cell research is wrong but killing over 100,000 iraqi's to get rid of (ghost) WMD's is morally "right". (pun intended)

 

eerk. Dude, there is an almost infinite span between "potential life" and "life". Taken from that stance, every time you masterbate, you are killing literally MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of "potential" human beings. Its a damn near genocide every time you log into your favorite **** site. If we started looking at objects for only their potential, then we would be too afraid to create or destroy anthing, and we'd lay on our backs until we died. That approach doesnt work, and to claim you know how the procedure works, then to say "they create life, then destroy it for the purpose of reasearch" is laughably rediculous. Everyone i've talked to who is against it either does not understand the procedure, or is too hellbent on the catholic definition of "life".