Syndaryl wrote:
--- "Chris J. Whitcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Susan Koziel wrote:
Somehow it's not a suprize about China getting the
brightest minds in the field of stem cells... you
could see that coming as soon as they passed the
massively restrictive laws about stem cell research in
Canada and the US. Eventually Canada/US/Europe will be
the 3rd world in terms of new biomedical procedures if
they keep passing laws telling people what they can
and can't research. Alas.
It's generally called ethics. I'd rather our government not support
turning women into baby factories just so they can make money selling
the aborted fetuses. Sure there may be some wonderful discoveries
just around the corner, but at what price are we willing to make
those discoveries.
At the risk of starting a bit of a political side-thread here, you've
created a horrific strawman to knock down here.
1) Quibble - AFAIK a fetus is useless for stem-cell research, it's
differentiated too far. If you're going to use a technical term in
your emotional argument, use the right one. Otherwise, just call them
"babies" and be done with it.
Granted, the topic is somewhat of a pet-peeve for me.
2) The major plan to source research was, as far as I know, to use the
discarded embreos from currently used and fully legal fertility
treatments. You know, the ones where they generate ~10 embreos in
vitro, implant the healthiest looking 2 or 3 and hope that one takes,
and then INCINERATE the left overs? Sometimes repeat 3 or 4 times
before the couple actually gets pregnant.
Quibble - the term is 'embryo' not 'embreo'... ;)
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