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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (271592)	2/3/2006 11:13:13 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575583

"as opposed to those harvested from an abort fetus or South Korean lab technician." This is a big part of the problem. There are those that promote the idea they use aborted embryos for stem cell lines. They don't. For one, they would only know about the genetics of one of the parents. No, stem cell lines derive from the results of in vitro fertilization. That way they know the genetics of both parents. And there are all those embryos, frozen in liquid nitrogen and due to be flushed down the sink at some point. So the parents have a choice, donate them or have them flushed. Why it is more moral to flush them is a concept that totally escapes me.