Stem Cell Research Rules Laid Out
Here is the article, with the following caveat:
They must use cells culled from fertility clinic embryos that otherwise would be thrown away.
Is that supposed to make me feel better?
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Because they might go to “waste” otherwise?
Disgusting.
“The guidelines also demand that the woman or couple who donate the original embryo give proper informed consent.”
So how many parents have given this consent? How many will give this consent?
And if it the embryo is just a “clump of cells,” as some people argue, why is consent for its destruction that important?
Younger — here’s what may make you feel better about this…
Since they aren’t allowed to create new embryonic humans to destroy through research, Big Science won’t be paying disadvantaged women (with your tax dollars, at any rate) to undergo the painful and dangerous super-ovulation procedure to extract eggs. And that’s good for poor women. For now.
Still…not so good for the “throw away” people…
As for the consent bit — this is all about children being made, not begotten (as Leon Kass says). The embryonic humans aren’t seen as separate, unique individuals, but rather as extensions of the “progenitors” (if plural — don’t get me started on cloning). Possessions if you will, or perhaps physical extensions of their parents’ will. Consequently, the progenitors must provide their informed consent as to what happens with “their” P.O.C. (product of conception).
Interestingly, there’s no complaint from the party of death about how the throw away people are insufficient in number for their research purposes. Hmmph.
God Bless,
Ryan
Regarding my statements regarding disadvantaged women, the following video may help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyw3YYejMLg
Of course it should make you feel better. The same way it should make you feel better that the Nazis only experimented on Jews that were going to be gassed anyway.
It is better than I expected, at least from the description. The questions are (1) how airtight are they so that people can’t be paid to produce “extra” embryos (conflict of interest provisions would be vital), and (2) how well will they hold up under the forthcoming lobbying assault.