Re: Human Stem Cell Research

July 13, 2001

I just read 's comments on scientists creating human embryos for the

sole purpose of killing these human embryos strictly to harvest stem

cells. I agree with , I do not want to be " saved " because someone

deliberately created life just to take it in the name of a scientific

break through. The difference is THEY CREATED THEM FOR SCIENTIFIC

RESEARCH ONLY! Not to create a life to help less fortunate couples have a

child and start a family. If you have " left over " embryos that the

" parents " don't want to donate to other couples that's different. I also

refuse to believe people deliberately get pregnant JUST to get an

abortion. So to me NOT using those stem cells is a waste, they should be

used for research. Lets not create life, a cell that can divide itself is

a life, so that it can just be destroyed.

Later,

JD, feeling the need for God's wisdom, in AZ

PS What would we think about creating an embryo for stem cell research,

but then took it one step further? Say bring it to the second trimester?

or the third trimester? That is the next logical step isn't it?

I too am in favour of any research that may help control the ravages of

NF2 in ourselves or more probably in our children, but for me the researchers

in Virginia crossed the line. They went out and recruited and then paid

donors for their eggs and sperm for the sole purpose of creating human

organisms that were subsequently killed to yield stem cells.

You can rationalize it anyway you want and you can gloss it over with

nice words like"harvest", but the bottom line is that these researchers

killed potential humans. Since we have developed the technology to intercede

at all stages of our reproductory process it seems only fair, in my humble

opinion, that our wing of protection be similarly extended.

This is the start of the slippery slope and I think that we need to

see what is really happening here. Human selective breeding and population

control programmes of the last century were reviled and here it is again

in another form.

Why should one human life be expended to improve the longevity of another?

Extending the life of one individual through the death of another

is not logical and is morally totally wrong.

July 13, 2001

BUZZ : ! humans are SO arrogant to think they are the only worthy spices

on this planet

Marcus : No no no, I believe SALT and PEPPER are worthy spices also, go

great with a 2 inch slice of COW.

Marcus almost home from 5 years of seeking out strange new life forms .

hahahahahhaa time to put the JB away Marcus.. Night all, heading into

Saturday here signing off from your tomorrow .( am I really ? No wonder i'm

so confused .... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

July 13, 2001

The question really comes down to a point. is a one cell with DNA in it a

human ? and is being a human any more special than being a monkey, horse, or

Fish. why do we have the right to destroy amoeba but not a one celled fetus

? Because it is ALL LIFE! humans are SO arrogant to think they are the

only worthy spices on this planet, EVERYTHING that has DNA is part of YOU!

One day human kind will be able to create life. We are coming close

already. Artificial Intelligence is Life. It is different than DNA but is

a life form in itself.

And as far as creating life . NO WAY that life was there. it has been

there since the beginning of time and will be there till the end of

existence. We as humans don't have the knowledge to create life, All that

we are doing is copying a procedure that has gone on for billions of years.