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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (14692)	11/14/2006 1:59:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

So, do you believe that 'spilling the seed' is killing life? That question is a non-sequitur. Peter was talking about embryos, no sperm.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (14692)	11/15/2006 2:09:23 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

If you can show where seeds in the context you refer to is motile, I will consider the questions. Otherwise it is specious. Killing a living organism is just that. Killing is killing. If you kill a baby because it was not enough cells to warrant some arbitrary number it is not significantly different than halfway delivering a baby and then sucking its brains out through a tube. The facts remain that there is no evidence that dead baby stem cells will yield any significant medical breakthrough. If there was people would be quitting their day jobs to get into the field. We would have a stem cell bubble. The movement has been most supported by people who support a woman's desire to kill her baby at any time for any reason. When people can argue for it with medical evidence instead of fraudulent emotional half truths, then it might be worth debate. Trading a life for a chance to create cancer is not a good trade off. "should a majority of a population decide to spend their tax money on promising research that will benefit all?" A mars base would benefit all of mankind. It is a better bet.