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 Would you save an embryo from a burning building?
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard

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Posted - 04/25/2005 :  14:04:50  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
This came up on a NOVA program segment on stem cell research. If the right-to-lifers consider an embryo to be a person, ask them if they'd go in a burning building to save one.

If you had the choice between saving a child in a burning fertility clinic or the 100+ frozen embryos there, which would you save?

I know not many on this board are the people who need to be asked this question, but in case it comes up in your conversations elsewhere, I thought I'd share it.

Gorgo
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Posted - 04/25/2005 :  15:08:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Gorgo a Private Message
Very nice. I may steal that. Dead fetuses? BRING 'EM ON!!!

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beskeptigal
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Posted - 04/26/2005 :  02:49:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Gorgo

Very nice. I may steal that. Dead fetuses? BRING 'EM ON!!!

I intended it for public use. It pretty much defines the difference between conception and personhood.

Can we please save 'real' lives with those embryonic cells now?
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 04/26/2005 :  08:57:44   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
This is perfect for the Trick questions for the spiritual thread, good one!

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 04/30/2005 :  17:02:35   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
I'd leave the embryos any given day.

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