At 05:50 PM 4/8/2007, Dan wrote:
At 05:29 PM 4/8/2007 -0700, Jim Lubin said something that elicited
my response:
Risking a life and taking a chance is not the same as willfully
terminating a life. I wasn't happy that she was doing IVF because I
don't agree with it. I also wasn't paying the thousands of dollars
the treatments cost. She and her husband had decided that if the
first implantation had been successful they were going to keep the
rest frozen because they considered the embryos their unborn children.
Do you mean indefinitely!?!
Yes indefinitely. They had no intention of ever donating any extra
embryos to research, had there been any left.
I'll pretend for the moment I didn't consider an embryo a life. Why
after spending tens of thousands of dollars of their own money to
create these embryos would they want to donate the embryos and
receive no financial or other inducements. (the wording of S.5). They
don't even get a tax break? Someone else benefits financial by being
able to use them and can get government money to boot! And if
anything does develop from the research, the proceeds from patents!
Then we will all be complain that we can't get the treatment because
Medicare won't cover the high cost. The able-bodied population won't
want to increase spending to Medicare pay for these treatments for
those poor people in wheelchairs, sure it will make them better but
why should I be taxed more to pay for it. It's all just false hope.
I'm just going to enjoy the life I have while I can without thinking
of some miracle treatment that may come available but I can never
afford to receive. I've already lived 18 years longer than I would
have if I had gotten sick in some other part of the world.
