Hi Jim,
This is my point. There are embryonic cells that
are being destroyed
now, and more are being made and frozen as I
write this. They will never all be
"donated" to other couples, those couples what their own, and theirs will be
added to the cells already frozen. If saying that these cells
are being destroyed now, which they are, without
looking at other options, sounds to you like the medical experiments
performed on the Jews by the Nazis', then why does our government continue
to license the IVF clinics? Why are the voices expressing
outrage at cell "research" not speaking out against IVF clinics "freezing"
cells? How can the Science that helps infertile couples have
children be called good, if the same Science when used to do "research"
is called bad?
Bush Administration NIH Guidelines for Embryonic Stem Cell
FundinG
Taken from the website of the National Institutes of Health on September
26, 2003
The text follows.
NOTICE OF CRITERIA FOR FEDERAL FUNDING OF RESEARCH ON EXISTING HUMAN
EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS AND ESTABLISHMENT OF NIH HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL
REGISTRY
Release Date: November 7, 2001
NOTICE: NOT-OD-02-005
Office of the Director, NIH
On August 9, 2001, at 9:00 p.m. EDT, the President announced his decision
to allow Federal funds to be used for research on existing human embryonic
stem cell lines as long as prior to his announcement (1) the derivation
process (which commences with the removal of the inner cell mass from the
blastocyst) had already been initiated and (2) the embryo from which the stem
cell line was derived no longer had the possibility of development as a human
being.
http://bioethics.gov/reports/stemcell/index.html
This is what is happening NOW! I just did a Google search on, "U.S.
In vitro fertilization clinics," and got 73,400 hits. How does one
put the genie back in the bottle? All I can do is raise my voice and
ask hard questions, and vote my conscience, but to deny the Science is
happening right now, would be naive on my part!
With Love,
CtrlAltDel aka Dave
C4/5 Complete - 28 Years Post
Texas, USA
Jim Lubin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 02:50 PM 11/1/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 29/10/04 22:21:48 GMT Standard
Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm just saying
that frozen embryos from an IVF clinic should be treated with
respect. If I "owned" frozen embryos, I would rather see some good
come from them than knowing they were just destroyed.
IMHO
I totally agree with you (I've been a bit blonde lately!
hehe) Embryos are to precious to let go to
waste!
Then shouldn't they be donated to other couple
to use for IVF? They get destroyed in the therapeutic cloning process, that
is the whole reason for the controversy of using them.
If you think
human embryos are precious and should be treated with respect then why is
everyone so eager to destroy them in experiments to create stem cells?
I just don't understand the reasoning that "they will be destroyed anyway"
so they might as well be experimented on for the "greater good". To me that
sounds lik! e the reasoning the Nazis used when conducting medical
experiments on the Jews they were going to kill anyway.
I'm just
curious, those of you who do favor embryonic stem cell research right now,
when do YOU feel a human life begins? The frozen embryos has the same 46
chromosomes as a human fetus. When a nervous system is detected? When a
heart has developed? Some women say they can tell the instant they become
pregnant, which would be before the embryo reaches the blastocyst stage, 5
to 7 days into development. Have you even thought about
it?
Jim
