re: #787 NukeAtomrod

I have made no such assertion. But I do believe embryos have some value, because they are human. How much value is the question. You appear to believe they have zero value.

Since I believe they have some value, then I have to consider the difference between that value and the value of the potential of the results of the scientific research. How many embryos equal one adult human life? How many embryos are we willing to sacrifice in the pursuit of knowledge? Is the research valuable enough that we are willing to take the embryos by force? Is the research valuable enough that we are willing to pay for it with taxpayer money? To raise taxes for it?

I am still considering all the questions above.

But the biology is clear. Life begins at fertilization. And that life is human.

Those are cold, hard facts.

Alright, we are moving off the absolutes a little bit. I do not deny that this area has plenty of ethical implications, but I have to say that if you trully mean what you say, that a fertilized ovum is a human, then you should be lobbying for all in vitrio fertilization to be banned because most result in the death of a human.

There is a time for emotion and there is a time for clinical detachment. The potential benefits to the living of this kind of research far outweighs the emotional distress to some from using some undifferentiated cells in experiments to cure diseases.