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 Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:05 pm
So.. What's your opinion?
What have you heard?
Do you know anyone that could benefit from it?
Do you think that it is immoral?
Do you think that we are trying to play god?
I for one, wasn't to into it. But you know what, I have one of those so called "Incurable Illnesses" I would say disease, but its really not. Now, I would push for it, I'd donate, h*** I'd even do speeches for it.
My first point. Is it moral? Some may think it isn't, but how could you possibly choose for someone else if you yourself aren't on the beneficiary side of it. How could you tell a little child, "No you will never be able to live a normal life, cause this science is an 'Act Against GOD', I'm sorry." Sorry, for what? Not letting them have their own choice in accepting if THEY themselves want to possibly have a better life. Suddenly we are not a Democracy but more of a Dictatorship, or Oligarchy. One little group controls the fates of many lives, just because they feel it is "Immoral."
What's immoral about that when pharmaceutical companies are testing on animals. They have lives too, it may not be as glamorous as a human's, but the are still LIVING CREATURES. Playing god is only a choice, a simple choice to save someones life or let them die. It's their right to choose, their option, and definitely NOT someone else's.
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:25 pm
There is no moral guidance provided by merely hoping that a good final consequence will result. Medical research should be governed by moral concerns, and specifically the duty owed by every human being towards another. However much sympathy we feel for sufferers of terminal diseases, we cannot tolerate the use of human embryos as means to the end of The stem cell research project is inherently contradictory ; lives would be created and then destroyed, in order to save another life. There is no overall good consequence when life must always be destroyed.
The loss of embryos in IVF (in vitro fertilization) is a ground for condemning IVF treatment. It is not a reason for allowing another procedure that will sacrifice much more potential life. Moreover, IVF is already a technology that is the number of embryos that are ‘wasted’ annually by IVF is far in excess of the number predicted by scientists when the practice was made legal. The value of scientists regulating other scientists is highly questionable. There is a significant risk that research projects will destroy thousands of embryos with little monitoring and with even less scientific gain. The embryonic human should have the same moral status as the foetus or the child or the adult.
The primitive streak was chosen as a purely arbitrary point after which experimentation on human embryos would become unlawful.There is no accepted physiological point at which the embryo suddenly becomes more ‘human’ than before.The fact that the embryo looks different from the foetus and from the adult is not enough to prove that the embryo is not a human being. It would be remarkable to predicate humanity on physical appearance. The status of a human being does not depend upon whether he is physically familiar or attractive. The proper test of humanity should concern whether the embryo has the potential to organize itself into a ‘living human whole’. Every embryo has this capacity. The sperm and the ovum do not have the potential of self-organization. Together these gametes have the slight potential of achieving fertilization.
The fact that embryos are lost naturally does not imply that is morally appropriate for scientists to destroy embryos. As Paul Ramsey has stated, man has no right per-se to mimic the actions of nature. For example, the possibility that a rock might fall naturally and hit my friend, does not mean I have a right to throw a rock and hit my friend. There is no necessity of utilizing embryo stem cells. Research has continued for many years into the use of adult stem cells. These cells are replaceable and could be used for the purposes of treatment and research without the destruction of embryos.
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