[peter12]

So no one sees the ethical and philosophical problems with using human reproductive tissue as a biomedical crop? I can understand a hesitant support of the technology. I don't understand the unequivocal cheer-leading.

The so-called treatments are only hoped for possibilities with very little tangible and hard evidence to support them. To get to a stage where any treatments appear we will have to totalize the human body, utilizing "spare parts" of unused embryos for the fuel to run this particular scientific project with little purpose.

I find that disgusting and wrong. In regards to the sick and dying, this is the everlasting presence of nature in our lives. We are better spent caring and loving for the sick than pursuing utopian pipe dreams that erode our humanity.