Comments on: On the Michigan Ballot: Should Human Embryos be Used in Medical Research? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/11/03/on-the-michigan-ballot-should-human-embryos-be-used-in-medical-research/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:18:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Heero http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/11/03/on-the-michigan-ballot-should-human-embryos-be-used-in-medical-research/comment-page-1/#comment-17912 Heero Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:16:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/11/03/on-the-michigan-ballot-should-human-embryos-be-used-in-medical-research/#comment-17912 I personally believe that the first thing that should be freed up are embryos that are going to be destroyed anyway. I mean, fertility clinics throw them away every day. If I was an embryo (assuming I could even think, which I couldn't), I'd much rather be used to save a life than to be thrown away in the trash. I personally believe that the first thing that should be freed up are embryos that are going to be destroyed anyway. I mean, fertility clinics throw them away every day. If I was an embryo (assuming I could even think, which I couldn’t), I’d much rather be used to save a life than to be thrown away in the trash.

]]> By: Denitsa http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/11/03/on-the-michigan-ballot-should-human-embryos-be-used-in-medical-research/comment-page-1/#comment-13603 Denitsa Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:17:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/11/03/on-the-michigan-ballot-should-human-embryos-be-used-in-medical-research/#comment-13603 If embryo is a person, I wonder what a human egg or sperm is-half person? That's nonsense. If we accept it, then every month, I'm killing one person due to my monthly cycle. Because that egg could provide perfectly good base for life (or at least I hope it would). And continuing this line of thought, am I supposed to do all my best to make that half person a whole one? Because obviously that means massive and random sex. I agree that it sounds disgusting to think of embryos as a tool or as an object, but in the end, we're all just that-body hosting a soul, matter that is alive for a while and then dies again. As long as those embryos are not allowed to live for more than few weeks, it should be all right to use them for a scientific purpose-you don't really believe that our soul can be hosted in 1 to 100 cells, right? If embryo is a person, I wonder what a human egg or sperm is-half person? That’s nonsense. If we accept it, then every month, I’m killing one person due to my monthly cycle. Because that egg could provide perfectly good base for life (or at least I hope it would). And continuing this line of thought, am I supposed to do all my best to make that half person a whole one? Because obviously that means massive and random sex.

I agree that it sounds disgusting to think of embryos as a tool or as an object, but in the end, we’re all just that-body hosting a soul, matter that is alive for a while and then dies again.

As long as those embryos are not allowed to live for more than few weeks, it should be all right to use them for a scientific purpose-you don’t really believe that our soul can be hosted in 1 to 100 cells, right?

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