Friday, October 19, 2007
Help me!
So I need some help from everyone. I have attempted to remain unbiased in my posts, at least presenting the opposite view point to some degree. However, I just do not understand how our president and thousands of Americans can equate the life of a blastocyst to that of a living human being. This is just mind bottling to me, I mean a blastocyst is only a few cells, it does not feel, think, it has not even begun to take the shape of a human. How can this ball of cells have the same basic human rights as a living breathing human with feelings, emotion, love, and pain. How can these cells come before millions of people suffering worldwide from countless diseases. To me the choice would be obvious but I would really like to understand the other point of view better in order to argue my opinions more effectively, or this information may even change my opinions all together.
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you know, i wish i could offer an effective argument; it's just that i agree with you. However, i believe that the main argument against stem cell research is that people believe that it is the start of life, that those cells are what will become a human. Typically, the argument against stem cell research is derived from the debate against abortion. People that are against abortion are usually against stem cell research.
i agree with you. I believe that an embryo isnt a human being. I believe that in the later trimesters of pregnancy you are killing a human being but just as something so simple as a few cells cant be considered life. Humans are complex beings made up of millions of cells, tissues, organs, organ systems and bones. Till the point that most of this starts developing this should not be considered "life"
Kristy and Angilman, thank you for your opinions. Both of you touch on the idea of when an embryo becomes a human and when it gains its basic human rights. It is also true that abortion is directly linked to a persons opinion on stem cell research ethically because they both deal with the same moral issue of granting human life. So the question becomes, in what stage in life do we gain our inalienable rights?
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