I'm sure I never mentioned fetus'. I'n fact, I'm sure I didn't.
If you feel organ donation is wrong, then we aren't even on the same page.
It isn't hoping someone will die. It is hoping that a person who dies will
donate an organ that you need. This is another area that stem cell research may
end since it may be possible to repair the damaged organ.
Stem cell research will happen. America will be far behind other nations.
Mr. Bush's friends will all be wealthy.
I'M SORRY TO HEAR YOU ARE ON A MACHINE.
john
In a message dated 8/11/2005 2:40:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes this something we will have to agree to disagree on. Since you said
have tried to stay open minded and not jump to conclusions
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.
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