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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Are you going to volunteer to have one of them implanted in you? If you feel so strongly about this I must assume the answer is yes. That is the only way to "save" them after all.
You don't seem to be getting this. These bundles of cells are not going to become human beings unless they are implanted into a woman. They will go into the garbage or stay in a freezer forever. Is that straightforward enough for you?
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If I didn't "get this" I wouldn't be talking about it. Please stop de-valueing my opinion because it is not the same as your own. These "bundles of cells" have the potential to become human beings... why don't you seem to be getting this? Because our opinions differ, not because you don't seem to get it. I personally have a problem with these cells being used as science experiments and being tossed into the garbage. Is that straightforward enough for you?
Look at it like this: Energy. Potential and kinetic energy. As a blastocyst, it has the potential (potential energy) to become a human (kinetic energy). So, while a stone at the top of the hill isn't moving, it has the potential to move greatly if pushed down that hill... Just like in this situation... Geeky, I know...
As I've said twice already, I would not have any problem with aborted fetused, or blastocysts that were scraped out of a woman's uterus at the doctor's office to be used in stem-cell research, just like I have no problem with people donating their bodies to research once they die, but I do have a problem with harvesting cells in a test-tube that will be discarded after being tested on. It just seems wrong to me.
I don't know if I am going to volunteer to have one of "them" (if it isn't a human, don't you think you should be considering it as an it, istead of a them?), I don't think there should even be a situation where they look for a woman to implant the cells into in the first place.