Which is worse: to throw away unused embryos from fertility clinics or use them for stem cell rese? Best answer on the web

Posted in: darrelrussell.com edit
07 Jan 2009
  • I could make the argument that throwing them away is destroying life. Would God approve that or prefer they are used to try to heal the sick?


  • well what is a laboratory made embryo??

    some cells fused together like any other laboratory study we do with any other animal cells ,

    they are just cells,put together

    there is not a baby talking to us that the clinic is going to kill

    ,so they made those embryos from women and man donated cells

    and they should do with it what ever they need to do

    god has nothing to do with the medical science ,i think there is nothing in common between science and religion


  • It sounds to me like you trying to make your mind on this issue by what people think god would think. If that's the case, you're never going to have an answer.



    According to your first question it's picking between the lesser of 2 evils. You think both of them are wrong and nothing short of God personally speaking to you and telling you that one of them is good is going to change your mind. Think about it and if you feel one of them is good then stick by that otherwise neither of them are ever going to be acceptable for you.


  • so 2 wrongs make a right now? destroying them in the first place will make it right?



    the question should also be posed: which is worse, to kill homeless/vagrants? or to not donate their body to medical schools after?



    and besides the point..... stem cell research has not really proven to be very effective, far from the future of all research and the savior of humanity that it is made out to be. the research that is being done on 'adult' stem cells has proven far more prospective and has results, not promises.


  • Why is God even in this equation? If you want to make an argument about morality fine but don't include God because we shouldn't be making decisions about research based on what we think...God thinks.



    It's stupid to throw away embryos that could be usefull in research. Stem cells may not be the wave of the future...but it's certainly worth exploring. Research cures and ignorance kills.


  • Well, if this was a straight ethics question, then the answer would depend on your views of life itself -- is an embryo to be considered potential life or actual life? Unused embryos might, in one view, be considered no different to all the spontaneously aborted embryos that die every day without the mother even knowing that fertilization had occurred (happens all the time; by one estimate I've heard, nearly 20% of all pregnancies spontaneously abort themselves within the first few weeks of pregnancy, and the mothers know nothing had happened), whereas stem cell research consciously and deliberately utilizes the embryos for scientific purposes. Using them to save another person's life when they would otherwise be allowed to die and flushed down the drain (so to speak) could be considered the best use, at least by some people; their existence served a purpose other than just to play understudy to the child that was actually brought to term. Others think it's like abortion, killing babies for science, even though as unused embryos, they would never be brought to term anyway.



    However, since you did bring the G-man into the discussion, now you have to consider how an omnipotent being would regard our use of His creation, and that is not for us to say. Let's be blunt about this: we kill things. We kill animals for meat, we kill plants for vegetables, we kill each other because they have something we want... and so does everything else in nature. If you believe in God, then you have to believe that God made us this way. If using stem cells from unused embryos goes against God's plan, if it uses human tissue in a way that perverts His creation, then organ transplants are just as perverse, as are skin grafts, donor bone implants, blood donation, or about half of modern medicine, because it tinkers around with human tissues that would otherwise naturally die and return to the earth.


  • Research baby. Stem cells are just that... cells.

    If they were human they would be called stem humans.

    Stem cells are not human.. they are nothing. Just genetic material that can HELP US FIND CURES NOW.

    Important research that can help us find cures for diabetes, heart disease, parkinsons, cancer... can I keep listing.

    What would we do with these stem cells anyway.. we cant throw them away.. because those abortion people will come after us!

    By the way, since these abortion protestors are so adamant about preserving life and a cluster of cells, can we have them raise these children... just wondering... it would make decisions easier