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Originally Posted by AnthonyCook
Please do not try and twist the situation to one of baby killing. It's misleading and just wrong. You are turning this into an abortion issue, which is far off base of this discussion.
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Right, but my opinion was asked, and I gave it. That's how I feel about it. IF someone else wants to make and kill a cluster of cells to have a baby, that doesn't affect me, better? It's not how I feel though.
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This is just my curiosity, but why do you think simply throwing them out without using them to help others is better?
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Because I feel like it is making and taking life and I don't want to be a part of it, or benefit from it when there are other ways for scientists to get their cells that don't involve making or taking life. (Dead things don't replicate, and those are human cells, therefore a human.) I would also be against using an aborted fetus for similar purposes for similar reasons.
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This is an excellent point. But to suggest that scientists aren't spending time to figure out how to extract stem cells in a way that wont result in the destruction of the embryo just shows you haven't done any research into the topic.
There are several separate studies currently into this aspect of stem cell research. One such, is extracting single cells from 8-10-cell early human embryos.
However, when single cells are extracted, they are seveley less likely to be able to replicate and culture. One specific research into this found that, only 2 cell lines out of 91 single cells cultured. So research and advancements are slow to ccur.
But there certainly are advancements being made into extracting stem cells without destroying the embryo.
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I'm not suggesting they aren't doing research into the area, as a matter of fact, I've stated previously in this thread that that's where they need to focus. If they would concentrate their efforts in this area, making it an easier, more reliable, more viable method of extracting cells instead of wasting time complaining because a lot of people think it's unethical to use cells the other way, then it would likely already be easier, more reliable, and more viable. And we wouldn't be having this discussion.