Do you think stem cell research on human embroyo's is Evil ? I think it is!

United States
March 10, 2008 4:36pm CST
Why do I feel it is wrong you say? Because one it's murder. This human life does not get a chance to live and breath and grow up to have kids someday. This human life does not get a chance to enjoy pizza someday or watch a movie. This human life does not get a chance to see a sunset or take a swim in the ocean. This human life. This baby embryo will be used and thrown away. Human life should not be treated like this! They all should be allowed to grow up and have a life like you and I. They don't have a voice. I will be their voice. "Let babies live,they don't want to die" What are you thoughts on stem cell research? Are you for it or against it?
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@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
11 Mar 08
I can appreciate that you are pro-life. I am a pro-choicer but, that is neither here nor there. As far as stem cell research, consider the possibility that that same embryo that you are fighting for may be useful in saving the life of a child that was born. That might be given the chances that you listed. He or she might enjoy pizza, watch a movie, have kids, live, breath, grow, see a sunset and take a swim in the ocean...but only because the research done with the stem cells on that embryo that you wanted to save, provided a cure for what would have robbed that child who was already born, of his life and all of those experiences. So, if you rob the world of the chance to use a being that wasn't, no matter what the reason, or how the means, aren't you also possibly robbing those that were given a chance to have those experiences but won't because the cures for what will kill them couldn't be found due to lack of means?
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• Anderson, Indiana
11 Mar 08
What you've just said reminds me of one of the songs done in this video called Braid My Hair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb98-PgZVdI It will really touch you. This little girl is one of the kids who would benefit from stem-cell research. My dad (Parkinson's) and his roomie at the nursing home (ALS) would have too. And I find it ironic that the biggest opposition to this due to the "sacredness of life" seems to come from the same President who, as Governor of Texas, put this state on the map when it came to the quantity of executions--and who is now (while our brave men and women are fighting and dying in a neverending war with Iraq) looking towards Iran as the next (but not last) country to invade as part of this war on terrorism! My special guy thinks that our President is an idiot. While I don't go that far, I do think that he has made several decisions that haven't gotten the best results.
@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
11 Mar 08
I will have to check that link out later! Thank you for introducing it to me! I agree with your special guy and will keep your dad and his roomie in my thoughts.
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@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
12 Mar 08
I'm sorry for the loss of your father and his roomie.
• India
11 Mar 08
even i think so, well its not good to ply with nature that the lesson man should learn befor its too late
@AJ1952Chats (2332)
• Anderson, Indiana
11 Mar 08
The only problem I have with stem-cell research on embryos is the slippery slope. That is, where the next step might be growing a fetus--or even a live birth baby--for the purpose of harvesting organs and, then, discarding. Safeguards need to be put in place to keep the above from happening. A door might be left open for those who know their baby is going to die if taken to term but they go ahead and have a complete pregnancy for the purpose of donating the baby's organs. But not growing a healthy baby for the purpose of doing this. However, there's no way that stem-cell research on embryos is murder, and I'll explain why. Yes, some of the embryos might come from women who have chosen to terminate their pregnancies, but most of them are either the result of the body's rejecting the embryo (spontaneous abortion/miscarriage) or else they're embryos grown to help a couple to become pregnant, but they're the leftovers from the batch. Now, imagine when a dozen of these embryos are implanted in a woman's womb to try to get her pregnant, but none of them take. That is, when she takes a pregnancy test, it will not only show that she isn't currently pregnant but never was. Since putting embryos inside of a woman won't automatically make her pregnant, how can they be babies? Being pregnant means that you're expecting one or more babies--and this woman wouldn't even be expecting a single one. You can't murder a baby if there's no baby to be murdered. However, these embryo implants that successfully make a woman pregnant will end up creating children that, otherwise, wouldn't be created! And why should unused embryos end up being destroyed when they could end up helping born people with health problems? No, I'm all for stem-cell research. As for the matter of "playing God" when doing this, aren't we also playing God when we give people medicine or perform surgery? Modern medicine--even with all of its faults--isn't the same as building The Tower of Babel.
@klaudyou (501)
10 Mar 08
That body (or body part) won't be given a soul...it would be incomplete ... it cannot be thought of as a human being. The purpose is to help us live better, and it's the same as if we are growing bacteria or any other organism. It's an important step in our existence if such a thing would happen... morality is not an issue here since these are things for soul...
@cortney09 (1345)
• United States
11 Mar 08
My whole thought on this is that stem cell research is like playing God. Which nobody should be doing.
• United States
10 Mar 08
you see, the more people are born, the shorter humanity would last. the resource we have right now will not last forever. so rather than having war in the future in which those kids will have to suffer, why not make a better life now in which there wouldnt be war because we would have less people? cold and inhumane, but that's the truth.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Mar 08
I was under the impression that they used stem cells from the placentia after a woman gives birth and that would be perfectly moral. But using human embryos is something else which is wrong But to go on with the damage was already done when a woman aborted so again I do not really know stem cell research could save a lot of lives and if the life of a child was already done anyway I just do not really know. I do not like abortion but that again is my own view