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To: Lane3 who wrote (115193)	5/21/2005 2:35:21 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793911

I just don't think I could stomach receiving a heart, liver, bone graft what have you.....from a living human being that will be destroyed in the process.

To: Lane3 who wrote (115193)	5/22/2005 4:12:10 PM
From: kech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793911

They are producing embryos that are intended to be used for fertility. In response, you said: "I don't buy that. They know full well up front that some "life" will be destroyed. It's still creating life to destroy life." Actually it is more complicated than that. They are starting the fertility knowing that there may be some blastocysts they don't want to use. At that point they have the choice of giving them to others for their use (which would save the "adopters" about $20k). Or they can give the blastocysts to the doctor for experimentation with the process of freezing. Or they can give the blastocysts to researchers for stem cell use. Or they can thaw them. The only issue that is being debated is whether the federal government will give federal money to researchers who are using these blastocysts for research on stem cells. I.e. researchers with private money can do research on these blastocysts. It may be that one would like to draw the line at a different place and allow researchers to use federal money for research on the embryos donated by couples with the intent to get pregnant. The problem with this, and it has already happened, is that some researchers have engaged in embryo farming, getting eggs and sperm and creating blastocysts solely for the purpose of killing them to get the stem cells. Where would you draw the line, if presumably you would be against research funding being used for blastocyst farming? If you have no problem with blastocyst farming, would you be opposed to embryo cloning? How would you draw the line between these two? And if not opposed to embryo cloning, would you be opposed to embryo cloning and growing of organs? How would you draw the line between this and simply embryo cloning? And if we are growing embryos for their organs, the next step would be raising people for organs...