My belief is that life begins when it can be sustained outside the womb, even with heroic measures. I don't support abortion as birth control. I support educating people (including teenagers) in birth control, and the results of not being careful.
That being said, IMO an embryo is a potential human, as much as it is a potential source of stem cells. Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer/Administrator GlobalNet Services, Inc. www.gnsi.com 301-770-9610 x358 (Voice) 301-770-9611 (Fax) The information contained in this message may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or any employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 5:15 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: somebody help me on this? My grandfather had his leg cut off due to diabities before he died. If that could be cured by a few embryos that may or may not even develop into life, then I'm all for it. We're talking cells, not people. And if this is a religious issue it show pure lack of faith in God. If you have faith that God has a plan and will provide for specific people to be born, then you have no control over it and can use as many embrios as you want. God will make sure the right ones become people and the wrong ones become stem cells. > No. The fear is scientist will create life in vitro for the purpose of > destroying it to get the cells. They say there are 400,000 frozen > embryos, already fertilized, in storage. Bush wants to let people > adopt them. So far, under the snowflake program, 81 children have been > adopted and are now alive. That's such a tiny fraction of the 400k > that it's not realistic. The problem is the frozen discarded embryos > might not suffice, so they might need to create fresh ones. They might > also want to create embryos with known genetic defects so they can > understand it better and cure that defect. I'm not even sure if I have > a problem with that but it does sound creepy and I can understand why > people think it's morally wrong. > > On 7/21/06, Dana Tierney wrote: >> I have not said anything about stem cells because I've been busy and >> because, to be honest, I did not exect any kind of legislation to ever >> pass to get to the veto stage. >> >> But here we are, andmy question is -- the opposition to stem cell >> research comes from some secret conviction that if it is allowed women >> will deliberately conceive so they can sell the fetuses? Is that it? >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:5/messageid:211634 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
