Re: [QUAD-L] Re: Bush plays the game of being Christian

[David K. Kelmer]

Hi Smurf,

 

Regardless of who is elected President next month, here is an issue that needs to be examined.  If, as the American Life League, Inc. believes, an egg collected from a woman's body and then combined with a man's sperm and frozen is human life, or, as others believe, that the resulting frozen embryos are simply the seed that when inserted into the woman's body grows into a human life, the issue needs to be debated.  The voices now raised on all sides in the stem-cell research issue cannot ignore the useless destruction of hundreds of thousands of frozen cells each year while so much attention gets paid to some 60 cell lines.  Life, or potential life, either way these cells deserve a better ending than what they're getting now. 

 

 

 

"In vitro fertilization undermines human dignity

 

What is in vitro fertilization?

"In vitro" literally means "in glass." In vitro fertilization is a process whereby human life is generated in a laboratory environment like a glass petri dish.

How is in vitro fertilization carried out?

In vitro fertilization begins when fertility technicians administer hormone treatments to a woman. The hormones hyper-stimulate the woman's ovaries to produce a number of eggs at one time. The eggs are collected from the woman's body and then combined with sperm. The resulting embryos are nourished in laboratory cultures and inserted into the woman's body with the hope that one embryo will successfully implant in the lining of the womb and develop. The process is very controlled and involves numerous trips to the in vitro fertilization center.

How does in vitro fertilization cause the death of human embryos?

The Jones Institute, one of the pioneers of in vitro fertilization, reports that only 10 to 20% of the human embryos produced by in vitro fertilization ever result in a normal pregnancy. The Centers for Disease Control estimated that in 1998, 28,000 babies were born through in vitro fertilization in the United States. This means that 140,000 - 280,000 human embryos are missing from the equation for that year alone.

What happens to the rest of the embryos?

• Many embryos die in the transfer process since they are fragile.
• Some embryos are unwanted and eliminated because they are considered genetically inadequate.
• Some embryos are stored alive in freezers.
• Some embryos are simply killed as they are washed down the sink."

http://www.all.org/issues/ivf.htm 

 

 

This is happening now.  This is an issue that must be addressed now.  The continued creation of my frozen cell will only make this issue bigger and harder to deal with.  Either way the loss of this many embryos needs to be a part of the debate.

 

With Love,

CtrlAltDel aka Dave
C4/5 Complete - 28 Years Post
Texas, USA    

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

In a message dated 10/10/2004 00:44:23 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

The reason Bush is anti-abortion is all political, People are brain washed into thinking he is a Christian. I am a Christian and I learned from the bible that Jesus loved us enough to give us freedom of choice. It is between a woman and God to have an abortion. The government needs to but out!! Don't get me started with all of the other issues that I and hopefully most of America have with Bush.

Meredith

I have to admit I have very strong views when it comes to abortion, which I believe are not to be based upon religion, more what's morally right and wrong.  I personally believe that abortion is an act of murder, unless the women has been r*ped (*=a), or unless the child will be severely disabled to the point that it would have a poor quality of life.  Other than that I think that if a women want's to have sex without taking the right percausions, then she should accept the result of pregnancy.  We all know about the birds and the bees, and we also know how to prevent such things.....

 

That's just my personal opinion

 

Love Smurf xxx