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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Ustwo....can you source that please....wtih a credible medical source?
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Sure hes my source:
Ustwo, B.S. D.D.S. M.S., worked in a genetics lab for two years as well. Now taking out the pure dentistry stuff, that’s 11 years of biology study after high school. Its also something anyone who was a basic biology major should be able to figure out on their own without any advanced work. What they are talking about is a fertilized egg, or at most a blastocyst. There isn't much we are going to learn from a human fertilized egg beyond what we know in other mammals because the initial stages of development are all almost identical. The only real use I can see of it is to perfect human cloning.
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Originally Posted by hiredgun
Ustwo: I refer you to the post right above yours. If we're willing to sacrifice the lives of Iraqis, I don't understand the unwillingness to use these embryos.
The comparison is a huge stretch, imo; on the one hand you have discarded embryos that have never been born or lived, and on the other you have adult humans who have lives, memories, and families.
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Ok this is quite funny really. Instead of Iraqi's you could use someone who died in a police hostage standoff, or maybe the 40k a year who die in car crashes in the US every year.
Lets try it on for size....
If you are willing to sacrifice 40,000 people a year in traffic accidents I don't understand the unwillingness to use those embryos.
Or maybe this one.....
If you are willing to eat apples I don't understand your unwillingness to eat oranges.
Ok now that I got that silliness aside, I am IN favor of using those dead babies but I can respect those who view it as murder. The difference is I don't play philosophical games to sooth my conscious over it. I think abortion is murder, I just don't care that much since I view it as genetic selection removing undesirable traits from humanity. If people want to step out of the gene pool in such a selfish and brutal manner I don't want those genes in the next generation, and we might as well get some good from their irresponsibility.