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To: Ilaine who wrote (110159)	4/19/2005 10:15:52 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

<<Is it ethical to kill, say, prisoners or retarded people in order to harvest their organs? No.>> It's an industry in China.

To: Ilaine who wrote (110159)	4/19/2005 10:23:16 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 793917

CB, Is the harvesting of an embryo different for folks who believe life begins at conception if the embryo harvested has no brain? I remember reading somewhere that this could be done for body parts, organs or stem cells. This is just a question not my view but i could see where folks might object to this more on "playing God" grounds than on pro-life grounds. Mike

To: Ilaine who wrote (110159)	4/19/2005 10:45:00 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

Not sure what he means but he sounds rather patronizing. Yes, he did sound patronizing to my ear. There was a tone of "it's all a silly little mistake." Now, you may not agree that destroying an embryo is killing a child, but that doesn't make the people who do believe that stupid. I posted the report because he seemed to promise to reconcile this matter. Maybe the show can and maybe it can't. I thought it might be interesting to watch it and see rather than prejudge. He did not share during the interview what that "silly little mistake" was, but I'm prepared to listen to see if he has some new insight. P.S. It was a very brief interview, but in the course of it he mentioned the research on blastocysts. I suppose you consider a blastocyst also a "child"?