Embryos and babies for spare parts?

I can't believe I am the first person to respond to such a high quality discussion :S ?!? CRAZY! But to the point, I disagree with creating life to use for scientific purposes (whether that be human, or animal) and destroying it because it doesn't suit your needs. For the record, my views on abortion are quite open minded. I dont deny any woman the right to make an individual choice to have one based on her circumstances and views, but I would never have on personally. I also don't believe that a family should have a child just to try and cure the child tehy have. That is NOT a reason for bringing a human being into teh world, in my opinion. Whats your opinion?

They are going to discard the embryos anyway.Just like abortions.If you have an abortion you can't change your mind when they are done and ask them to reinsert the child.But I have an unpopular opinion about things like this and animal testing as well.My mother went in a coma when I was 12 years old from Lupus.It hit her brain and she now suffers from psychosis and demintia and has never been able to be a mother to me since then.So my opinions on things are different because of her.I don't think they should create test tube babies for this mere purpose,but if you already have them why not use them.They might be able to save someone's mother one day.

I think it is amoral to conceive a human being and genetically screen, throwing away the mismatched embryo(s). An embryo is a person. You were an embryo. I was an embryo. I see nothing wrong with donating the mismatched embryo to an infertile couple for adoption. But I don't care for the concept of spare part people.

hai read this moments age Bush made statement at Whiite house, an embryo is not a boy or a girl. its a clueter of about 150 cells smaller than the period. they were created for the purpose of vitro fertilization which are spare or in excess of clinical need and in every single case are slated for medical waste,........ each of these human embryo is a human life..............

I have mixed reactions to this. To create to save another as long as both shall live long happy lives I would probably consider on same level. If this was done naturally but I wouldn't consider it done in a tube if only 1 gender was appropriate i.e you need a male only.

I believe that medical science is finding new ways everyday to save lives. I don't see anything wrong with creating embryos for this purpose. These embryos are not created by God do not have "souls". So how could pro-lifers think of this as abortion the labs that make these embryos are creating not aborting.

Life was given to be enjoyed to be blessed and not just for the sake of some wierd experiments this is really sickening i mean where is the world going? They say they are advancing but are they advancing by sacrificing the lifeforms? What do they want and the results will be horrible

hmm i not agree their for use only spare part..

I think this decision should be left to the parents who face such situations. I personally beleive nothing is wrong with such procedures.

If one is going to argue a cell cluster is a human being, then one has to take that arguement one step farther and lay claim to sperm cells and ovum are human also. Millions of sperm are 'waste' each day, thousands of ovum are also. Yet each has the potential to divide create a cluster, a zygote etc and eventually an infant. We can sit here an put forth our opinions on this matter, but how many of us know what the parents of these children experience. What agonies do they go through in making the decision to do this thing? I can remember a time when there was concern over population growth. I could never reconcile this concern with the concept that every cell cluster had rights for life in the fullest sense of the term. Can any one of you tell me exactly what you would do if presented with such a problem? A living child, one you have loved and raise, worried over, who has held your hand...knowing this child may die if you do not make a decision...that it is possible to save this child by doing this one thing. There was a time when invitro fertilization was frown upon, that such children thought by some to be soulless. Now we have controversy over whether or not a cell cluster is human. Define human for me...does it have to be viable? Able to live outside it's host's body? A fetus is a parasite in the purest sense of the word. It lives off the host. Without the host there is no hope of survival. There is a point where it begins to develop lungs, a digestive system, a heart, and brain...but prior to that point it is just cells grouped together. For so long man has been changing the natural order of things that there is no longer an order. What happens if we stop now? What happens if we do not continue to push the envelope? Going back to my question, what if it was your child? And this was that child's only hope of life? I know what my answer is...I wonder if you do.

I think that its ok for a really basic reason. These emryos do not feel pain the way we do or even the way a third trimester fetus does. They do not have a sense of self. Embryos are created and lost all the time. If you object to it based on sancity of life then you may as well be vegatarian, otherwise your argument is useless.

I am very pro-choice, however with all due respect, that has little to nothing to do with this topic. I support a woman right to a legal and safe abortion if that so be her choice. No one has a right to force an unwanted pregnancy on any one. Now as for this topic, I do NOT agree with manufacturing of any species for the sole purpose of sceintific studies. Whether it be a human or animal I do not agree with it. I do not agree with either creating it in a test tube or through a pregnancy, having a baby to use as "spare parts" for a sibling. It's going to far. Find cures, find treaments stop using humans as products.

I fully support this effort. I know it seems really un-human to do that kind of thing. But has anyone ever imagine how many disaseses, how many people we can save by doing that? I think it is worth a try. Back then, when they would like to try a new medicine; they will experiment it to a living human. like penicilin for example. I dont hear anyone complain about penicilin today? why? because it could save you!!

I think the test tube embryos is done to give someone the chance for a child.I dont believe its the same as abortion and I think someone voluntering to be a donor to give someone else the chance to a have a baby.Is a very wonderful thing.

It’s an excellent prospect for the child with a disease that effects their life seriously, though the new born is being engineered to be something that it can’t be, something that it shouldn’t ever have to be. Relations give kidneys because they love and care for one another, you could seriously bring the child up to have many issues surrounding trust and it’s role in life, the only purpose it exists is to serve the sibling, and through some cases I believe it can be a ‘life-time’ intrusion of giving blood, and other things which is bound to bring resentment. Medically it’s fantastic, of course it is, for the emotional wellbeing of the child it could be a disaster. I could see pro-choice having a problem with this, as it’s completely different from abortion, and not even under the same umbrella and ‘really’ effects a newborn.

Creating a new life with scientific help is not good , as this is against the nature. Anything which is done against the law of nature will perish after a sometime.

I've heard of this before and I still disagree with the practice. And yeah, I'm pro-life. The idea of harvesting babies is horrible to me. The fact that they are embroys doesn't change that. We may draw the line at embroys now, but what about in the future? Will we be harvesting parts from children that are not "quality" children. To have a child to become a donor for another is even more horrifying. Can you imagine being the second child? Feeling like you were only born because your parents loved the first so much that they had you only to save him? That your worth is only in reference to how much the first child needs from you? And to throw out embroys just becasue they aren't needed is selfish also. There are many people out there that would love to have a child but cannot.

this is awful and very disturbing...these are humans were talking about and not just embryos...

i don't think so this should be done

as a parent i understand the need to do almost anything to save a child but i could not have a baby unless it was the right reason,it's not right to have a baby as a medical treatment for another child and the chances of a match are not that much higher than any other relative