Embryology: Inconvenient Facts

[Scott1]

In the ongoing debate about cloning human embryos for research, and about destroying them in order to harvest their stem cells, it is important to keep some basic facts in mind. Our moral analysis must be built upon fundamental scientific truths. If we obscure the facts, then we will not think clearly or act responsibly about these issues.

FULL ARTICLE HERE.

 

[painted wolf]

have you heard about the scientist in England that have found a way to make an unfertilized egg start to devide like a fertilized egg. They trick the egg with a special protien, making it think it is fertilized. This may be a way to produce 'moral' stem cells as the egg could never deveolp into a baby, being unfertalized.

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[Pah]

In the ongoing debate about cloning human embryos for research, and about destroying them in order to harvest their stem cells, it is important to keep some basic facts in mind. Our moral analysis must be built upon fundamental scientific truths. If we obscure the facts, then we will not think clearly or act responsibly about these issues.

FULL ARTICLE HERE.

The question of morality has been settled both in law and science.

There are some that hold the view of conception as a starting point of "humaness" from a faith based point of view and some that agree with that from a humanistic point of view. What both groups seem to ignore is that humaness begins long before conception in the poruduction of sperm and ova. We do not seem to hold as immoral the trapping of sperm by physical devices or chemicals to prevent conception in ova. The arguement for pushing back "humaness" from birth to contraception fails when it does not recognize the living agents of conception. The Catholic Church is the only organization I know that goes the "extra mile" in this regard.

Bob