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Re: Good News!!
I think the bigger minefield is what you do with stem cell research/ cloning, not the use of stem cells themselves.
According to Darwin, one of life's main motivations is to procreate. That doesn't mean to foster, specifically it means to pass on ones genepool. IVF offers a means of a child with that genetic transference. There is nothing viable about an embryo, it is just potential. It needs a womb, and a little luck. IVF never connects embryo to womb, there is thus no potential. In Vitro an embryo is no more viable than egg or sperm, and few would consider them sacred. If they were a woman would have to have one baby per menstrual cycle! Not even Africa does that!
Personally I think its right not to be flippant with embryos, but I don't see them as having rights. We respect them, but that's because they are none the less special.
I would like to see a lot more adoption and fostering, but to force or coerce a couple to adopt instead of propergate their genes also doesn't show respect.
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