They are just going to throw those unused blastocysts away only
because someone is making the choice to do so. After they are created
they remain frozen indefinitely until a decision is made by someone
to remove them from their frozen state.
I've seen the argument be made that they are going to die anyway so
why not use them to help others, such as organ donation. I started
thing about that reasoning a few years ago. As someone who is only
being kept alive by a ventilator breathing for me I began thinking
that "someone" could decide that if I was taken off the ventilator I
would die anyway so why not use my organs to better someone else's
life. Someone might decide that my heart, my liver, my lungs would be
better used by someone else who might be more important or more
productive, less of a burden cost wise, to society. I am not an organ donor.
Remember the Terri Schiavo case in 2005? It was a big topic on the
vent-users list. Her husband claimed she was in a Persistent
vegetative state, her family said she was not. The media kept saying
they want to remove her from "life support". She was not on life
support, she had a feeding tube. Big difference. A ventilator is life
support. Her feeding tube was removed and she was starved to death
because nutrition was withheld. It was very scary to everyone who is
on life support they way people were fighting to get her feeding tube
removed. If people felt so strongly about her being removed what about us?
I believe that human life begins at conception and that those
blastocytes should be protected until natural death. Use them what
they were created for or keep them frozen (i.e. on life support). I
don't think these blastocytes should have been created in the first
place, if a couple can't have a baby without intervention then it's
not meant to be. That's just what I believe. Obviously it's legal so
the world doesn't operate the way I believe.
Jim
At 10:24 AM 3/26/2009, Westgold wrote:
They just throw those unused blastocytes in the garbage, they end up
in some medical waste dump somewhere. Would you rather than that,
than see those cells being used to help cure a lot of horrible
diseases? You say that you support organ donation -- isn't giving
these blastocytes a chance to help save somoene's life similar to
organ donation? Don't you think they would rather do some good with
whatever life they have, rather than just be thrown in a dump?
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