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I don't think people connect this issue (morally) so much with cloning as they do with abortion. I'm not so up to speed on this issue, but I believe some of the supposedly more valuable stem cells have to come from aborted embryos. At minimum you could say its unpleasant to need to create a human embryo for the purpose of aborting it. So I can see the objection: If you're anti-abortion, this is way worse in that you're intentionally concieving for the purpose of aborting. I just googled it and found this. Aparently they can produce some types of stem cells now without killing the embryo they take them from. Unfortunately it doesn't end the debate because the church and many folks in congress equate this to creating, then killing a twin.If it were up to me, this cell extracting is happening at such an early stage in the development of an embryo (it only has 8 cells at the time that it's done) that I can't really see a big problem with it other than deciding how far the embryo has to mature before it inhereits human rights. (and thus couldn't be harvested) How far down that hill its appropriate to go is very unclear to me.
I don't think people connect this issue (morally) so much with cloning as they do with abortion. I'm not so up to speed on this issue, but I believe some of the supposedly more valuable stem cells have to come from aborted embryos. At minimum you could say its unpleasant to need to create a human embryo for the purpose of aborting it. So I can see the objection: If you're anti-abortion, this is way worse in that you're intentionally concieving for the purpose of aborting.
I just googled it and found this. Aparently they can produce some types of stem cells now without killing the embryo they take them from. Unfortunately it doesn't end the debate because the church and many folks in congress equate this to creating, then killing a twin.
If it were up to me, this cell extracting is happening at such an early stage in the development of an embryo (it only has 8 cells at the time that it's done) that I can't really see a big problem with it other than deciding how far the embryo has to mature before it inhereits human rights. (and thus couldn't be harvested) How far down that hill its appropriate to go is very unclear to me.
