Posted by alexandra_k on June 9, 2005, at 18:44:47
In reply to Re: Whats wrong with stem cell research, posted by Camille Dumont on June 9, 2005, at 17:35:45
> When people go to a fertility clinic, severa eggs are fertilized, frozen and eventually destroyed when they are no longer needed, why not use those?
That was what I was thinking too. I think that they aren't being destroyed anymore though. They have stopped destroying them for the same reasons they are saying it isn't ok to kill them by using them for stem cell research - because they are genetically human beings and thus we shouldn't kill them.
>How about when people get an abortion, those also get destroyed.
Yeah. But that isn't going persuade people who think abortion is not okay to believe that stem cell research is ok.
> Again, it is where you draw the line between a simple living organism and a human being with rights. A fuzzy and complex legal issue for sure.Preembryos are genetically human beings.
You could say 'killing human beings is wrong'.
But then capital punishment would have to go.
Most people want to say that it is ok to kill another human being in self defence.
You could say 'killing innocent human beings is wrong'. But if you accidentally kill someone and you did take due care most of us want to say that you didn't do anything wrong.
You could say 'deliberate killing of innocent human beings is wrong'. But then that would rule out euthenasia too...
But... Some people don't think euthenasia is ok.
I don't know that it is useful to cite euthenasia as a case where it is okay to kill an innocent human being and say that maybe stem cell research is another case like this. Maybe people who don't like stem cell research would have similar issues with euthenasia...
Also... A pre-embryo can't make an 'informed decision'.
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