Angie,
I do respect your opinion, even if I don't agree with it. You at
least state that you define "a life" as having a consciousness. I am
not aware if an 8 month old fetus has a consciousness or not but I
would consider that stage of development a life. That is why I define
a human life from the point of conception, joining of a egg and sperm.
You wonder why you shouldn't have the option to use embryos for
research just because you don't consider it a life? You don't see a
problem with the premise of your question? You don't consider it a
life so why should anyone prevent you from taking it to better your life.
At 11:07 AM 4/8/2007, Angie Novak wrote:
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course. But look at some
of the people around, can we really say that all human life is
precious? I can't. There are just some people living their lives
out there walking around and breathing that don't deserve to
be. However, these are people, not just 50-150 cells that don't
have a consciousness, what I consider life. And these 50-150 cells
are just going to be destroyed anyway. Why not let them serve a purpose.
Shouldn't those of us who want a cure to be found, including using
embryonic stem cell research, be able to have that option? If you
don't want to be treated, potentially cured and able-bodied again
someday from what this research finds, just don't accept that
treatment. Stay trapped in your body if you'd like. But don't take
that chance for living again, really living, away from those of us
who want a shot at it. I would gladly donate my eggs to be
fertilized via in vitro, solely for the purpose of being used for
embryonic stem cell research.
CURE not care-
Angie Novak
Dan T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Human life is sacred and an embryo is the initial stage of life. I
would like to be up and around and Independent but not at the
sacrifice of another human life. Dan T.
Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, yes, yes! We must not destroy all those useless fertilized
eggs. We should let them perish on their own and then we should have
an elaborate funeral and bury them in a tiny little plot of earth.
AND we must not allow abortion at ANY cost. Thank you Jesus! Hallelujah!
Dan, who always gives great credence to anything authored by a reverend.
At 06:15 PM 4/7/2007 -0700, Jim Lubin said something that elicited
my response:
SIX STEM CELL FACTS
The public discussion of human embryo research has too often lacked
intellectual honesty, which has only compounded the confusion of an
issue of great scientific and moral complexity, say Robert P.
George professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University and a
member of the President's Council on Bioethics and Rev. Thomas V.
Berg, executive director of the Westchester Institute for Ethics
and the Human Person.
Consequently, there are certain facts on which people on either
side of the moral debate should be able to agree, say George and
Berg. For example:
There is no "ban" on human embryonic stem cell (ESC) research in
the United States; the federal government has funded such research
to the tune of $130 million dollars since 2001, and the United
States continues to be the international leader in the field.
We are a long way away from therapies derived from embryonic stem
cells; many leading stem cell researchers have echoed the fact that
there may be no breakthrough any time soon.
Standard embryology texts insist that from the zygote (single-cell
embryo) stage forward there exists a new living member of the
species homo sapiens that has the active potential to develop by an
internally directed process towards maturity.
Also:
There are non-controversial alternatives worth exploring; such as
the reprogramming of ordinary somatic (body) cells, the derivation
of stem cells from amniotic fluid, and (assuming that it can be
shown that the product is not an embryo), altered nuclear transfer.
Concerns about embryo destruction are not only religious; but
merely a healthy respect for the human capacity for doing evil in
pursuit of the good.
The search for cures is not the only motive behind ESC research,;
many scientists are interested only in enhancing basic scientific
knowledge of such things as cell signaling, tissue growth and early
human development.
Source: Robert P. George and Thomas V. Berg, "Six Stem Cell Facts,"
Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2007.
For text:
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