Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
First they are using adult stem cells.
Second. From what I understand the frozen embryos they use are leftover from in vitro-fertilization attempts that are probably going to be destroyed.
I can thnk of a lot of things I wish the feds were not funding too. Medical research is not one of them.
What are embryonic stem cells? [Stem Cell Information]
So, we should just add more spending to the federal government's budget? When to we cry "STOP YOU SONS OF BITCHES"? Seems to me that everyone wants to keep adding their projects but no one wants to say "STOP YOU SONS OF BITCHES". IMHO we have to cut spending. But tragically rather than cut spending we just keep adding to it.
I understand what they claim they are using. Whether that is the case (and some I am sure were going to be destroyed) or not is debatable. I have lost faith in people. The fact that they are justifying themselves by claiming these would have been destroyed anyway, makes me skeptical.
And even if they were to be destroyed, I object to the federal government participating in the destruction of innocent human life. If this is so valuable, let the research organizations fund the damned research.
Immie
There is no question as to whether they would otherwise be destroyed. They ARE otherwise destroyed.
That happens every day in hospitals and fertility clinics through the country thousands of times. If they are not used for an IVF implantation, the embryos are sanitized and are discarded as biological waste.
Which is the choice of the parents, not anyone else.