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Originally Posted by Xantar
It's kind of funny watching the news article railing against the immorality of creating an embryo just to destroy it later and harvest stem cells, especially considering that nobody was proposing that we do that in the first place. All anybody wanted to do, in case you didn't know, was use stem cells from embryos in fertility clinics that were going to destroy the embryos anyway.
I wonder if the Associated Press really put in all that stuff about forcing taxpayers to fund the destruction of embryos.
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I have never had a problem with science using existing stem cells from fertility clinics and other means as long as long as the embryos were intended to create life. To simply let them go to waste would be silly and would not let something good happen from a noble intention that never came to pass. I am very much against the creation of embyos for the intention of destruction, though, as that would be abhorrent in my eyes. Life has already lost too much value in modern times.
Now on face value I am all for use of these embryos, but then again is everything as it seems on face value? Are these discarded embryos donated or do the clinics charge the research companies for them? If the fertility clinics are charging for them, that is a whole different ethical ball of wax and the whole system could be corrupt and rife with abuses.
Example: A fertility clinic charges for each embryo sent to a fertility clinic. So to make more of a profit, the clinic creates far more embryos than it could ever use for creation of life so it can sell the excess to the research companies for a profit. So there you have what is essentially a black market based on the creation of embryos for the intent of destruction.
Once again, I don't know whether or not this is happening, but it is a subject that should be examined. I'm all for the use of these embryos as long as no form of moneys are exchanged in the process.