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If in the process of fertility treatments we had leftover embryos, which would otherwise be destroyed, I would want to donate them so that discoveries could be made which might eventually save millions of lives.
Careful use of embryonic stem cells is very much pro-life.
(Yes I know there is the option of the embryos being adopted, and I'm all for that. But a very very small percentage of them are adopted. The rest, that would otherwise be destroyed, should go to save lives.)
Using these forms of stem cells takes the ethical questions away from the table.
Firstly the science has shown that adult stem cells and cord blood stem cells are much more useful in actually assisting in treatments. There is more promise there and no human being dies.
Secondly, I don't buy the donated organ comparison. The organ is a part of life, not the entire life. They also don't transplant organs like the brain for instance. They don't take both kidneys. The arguement is that they are going to be destroyed or killed anyway was used by the Nazi's when they experimented on people in the concentration camps.
The embryo is a life. Conception until natural death. No life is more valuable than another. You don't kill one to save another. This is the same thing as harvesting a born person's parts to the point that they die from the process.
for life:6:07am has some very good points to have research legal. I still don't like tax money being used for something that many find against their beliefs, whether I agree or not.
This is all about what is important to society
Not personal preferance
Cause that doesn't further the abortion agenda like using embryonic stem cells. They are trying to use an embyronic stem cell breaththrough to point to abortion being a positive.
Just think how much cord blood is thrown away. It's costly to freeze for your own potential useful use. Just think what donations of cord blood could do!
However, when one of these proposed "changes" from the past administration turns out to be good, the only politically oriented comment is "God bless Senator Hatch"?
You all are a bunch of politically hypocritical ingrates.
PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA: THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS POLICY CHANGE FROM THE PAST INEPT ADMINISTRATION! IT IS TIME THAT THIS CHANGE HAPPENED! EVEN THOUGH I DON'T AGREE WITH YOU ON OTHER ISSUES, AND I WILL DISAGREE WITH YOU WHEN I NEED TO, I AM A BIG ENOUGH PERSON TO RECOGNIZE THAT YOUR CHANGE IN POLICY WILL BE THE REASON FOR THIS CHANGE, AND I WANT TO PUBLICLY THANK YOU FOR IT!!
Grow up, Utah, and give Obama credit when it is due.
If Obama would stay with some of the more moderate things on his website, we might have a chance of getting some good things out of him.
If he goes with some of the things some of the nuts he has hired to transition, not only will be worse off, you will see a GOP majority in both House and Senate in two years.