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They use 5 embryos per person to make sure they have success so why is it ok to destroy these embryos trying to have a successful pregnancy but if you use them for other scientific research and remember they destroyed many researching invitro fertilization before it was perfected but nobody said a word about it but now because they want to use them for stem cell research it's unethical.
Something stinks here!
Mark
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Date: Monday, October 11, 2004 12:55:13 PM
Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] human embryos
At 09:00 PM 10/10/2004, Mark Felling wrote:
I believe it would be immoral to create more embryos for the research. In fact, if you want to attack the morality of the situation you must attack the practices of the fertility clinics. Focus on the problem at its source not the results.
Actually I don't agree with in-vitro fertilization either. If a couple cannot have a baby naturally they can adopt a unwanted baby that otherwise would have been aborted.
If you have a leaky pipe, you don't just keep mopping up the puddle but a patch the leak. And it is too bad that this excess of embryos were created in the first place, but they do exist now. They have already been created, and if society is not going to use them for research since they are considered the beginning of human life, then would not be murder simply to destroy them all?
yes
So the only moral solution along these lines would be to grow all these embryos to full term human babies and on into adults. Of course, now you have a problem of the parents all these embryos in the fertility clinics came from...
yes, that's why many of the existing frozen embryos have been given to other couples to use for IVF. Like you said, it is the only moral solution. Throwing them away or destroying them in experimental research (however noble the potential outcome may be) are not the only options for embryos that have already been created.
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