For one thing, harvesting of organs is done on people declared brain dead or shortly after declared dead. I would definitely have a problem harvesting organs from the dying. I don't agree with organ donations either. People needing an organ transplant hope that someone else with a matching tissue type will die soon so they can prolong their life a few extra years. How sick is that? People eventually die, no getting around that. I'm not an organ donor and would not be an organ recipient. I'm already being kept alive by a machine anyway.
I see using human embryos to extract stem cells equal to extracting organ from a person in a coma.
You have already said that you do not think a fetus unable to live on it's own is entitled to protection so I'm not sure how you can have an open mind when it comes to people think a human life is entitled to protection at an earlier stage of development.
At 05:35 PM 8/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We will have to disagree on using embryos for research. If you prefer the hundreds of thousands of embryos be destroyed each year at fertility clinics, you should say it that way. Stem cell research holds the potential to change medicine. Diseases like diabetes, kidney failure, heart disease, cancer, traumatic central nervous system injuries become treatable. Stem cell research is the cutting edge of modern medicine.
I have tried to understand the ethical dilemma that some people pop up with but I don't see stem cell research being anymore unethical than harvesting organs from the dying. We are simply harvesting cells from embryos that would otherwise be flushed down the drain.
