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To: Lane3 who wrote (115158)5/21/2005 1:51:06 PM
From: kech  Read Replies (1) of 793912
 
The first is how they can draw a bright line between producing for fertility purposes embryos that are intended to be destroyed and producing for research or therapeutic purposes embryos that are intended to be destroyed. If the latter is immoral, seems to me, the former is, as well.

On this first one at least the distinction is that they are not "producing for fertility purposes embryos that are intended to be destroyed". They are producing embryos that are intended to be used for fertility. There is no way to know in advance how many will be successful in turning from fertilized eggs to blastocysts which can be successfully implanted. Even then there is no way they can be sure that when successfully implanted they will turn into embryos. Even if embryos they may not result in successful births. On condition that any of those fail, the hopeful parents have a chance of going back and getting some of the frozen blastocysts. Only after the potential parents have been successful, or choose to give up, or even if successful, choose not to use the blastocysts for a second round of birth attempts, can they be said to choose to destroy the blastocysts. I would think destroying blastocysts before implantation would be less of an ethical hurdle than an abortion. I.e. without implantation they would not turn into embryos or children whereas left alone, aborted fetus would become children. In any case, the key for how these can be treated differently than embryos for research purposes is that they are the result of the intent to get pregnant.
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