volfan2024
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(GAVol @ Jul 18 said:I'm on the fence on this one.
(GAVol @ Jul 18 said:I'm for stem cell research. It's just a matter of where to get the new stem cells that makes me pause.
(volinbham @ Jul 18 said:Agreed - that's my view. I believe it's worth a debate on the ethical and scientific issues. I don't necessarily believe an embryo is human life but I'm certainly not sure about that nor if it's not, where it starts. I not yet comfortable with creating embryos to be destroyed.
Some of the promise of stem cell research is theoretical and unknown. Likewise is the notion of when it's okay to destroy life (or the precursor) to help another. Tough issue.
(volmanjr @ Jul 18 said:If you were to take donated eggs and donated sperm cells and use them to create embryos that would never have been created except for this research is that a bad thing?
Also in attempts to help people with problems having children many embryos are lost in vitro is that technology wrong?
Lastly, in the natural course of reproduction there are embryos that for what ever reason do not mature , those "lost" embryos might have held the key to curing cancer.
(volmanjr @ Jul 18 said:That's a big stretch.
Lastly, in the natural course of reproduction there are embryos that for what ever reason do not mature , those "lost" embryos might have held the key to curing cancer.
(volmanjr @ Jul 18 said:This technology is just like any other, take the internet for example: wonderful , powerful tool for business , education and information (and Vol message boards) that can be used for evil, vile things (terrorist networking, child porn and predators). So do we scrap it because of that? No. Same goes for gun control, guns don't kill, husbands that come home early do. Take away guns and only the outlaws have guns. If I recall the 1st murder happened with a rock. Before you say it this is no farther a stretch than the killing of homeless for organ donations.
and if we had ways to keep that from happening would it be wrong to not stop it if we could? How about this? We have a military mission to perform and we know that if we proceed soldiers will die. We can control that situation by not engaging the enemy, is it wrong to not fight?Everyday thousands of people die from causes out of our control, does that make it right to kill thousands of people a day from something we can control?