At 11:13 AM 1/12/2007, Kevin Wolfthal wrote:
Hey Bobberino,
I agree with you. The embryos in question would otherwise be thrown
away as medical waste.
They would only be used for research with the consent of the
families they belong to.
Seems to me, that perhaps the Lord would rather they be used to
hopefully prolong
or even save lives rather than be discarded as trash. But what do i know, I'm
just a heathen with TM. :)
Kevin
In a situation where a person can't decide for themselves (such a
brain dead person), the organ donor's body is kept alive when the
person legally responsible for making medical decisions decided to
donate the persons organs, artificial life support is removed,
doctors declare the person dead, organs are removed.
The legal owners of an embryo decide they will not use it and decide
to donate it for medical research. It's not dead or even declared
dead by a doctor. If the embryo is removed from refrigeration it will
eventual die but then would be useless to use at that point. So
removing stem cells from a living embryo is what causes the death of
the embryo. That's where I see a difference.
Back in the 1996, remains of a single celled organism was discovered
in a meteorite from Mars and the world acknowledge that as proof of
life once existed on Mars. Jump forward a few years and a
multi-celled human embryo, something we all began life as, is not
considered a life? I don't see how people can so easily dismiss a
human embryo as being a human life. It's not a religious issue as
much as people keep trying to make it one. I can understand the
people who are in favor of abortions at any stage before birth not
wanting to consider an embryo as a life, it would go against their agenda.
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Jim Lubin
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