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Originally Posted by mriff
Wow kathryn. I have to ask, do you also think the scientists that are conducting this research are akin to a bunch of Mengeles? You compare the reseach that is being conducted. Do you also compare the people doing the research?
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Warning: faith-based opinion to follow.
I doubt it. I doubt it will be judged that they are doing wrong, by God or by man, because by and large they don't have a basis for seeing it that way. And I am not permitted to judge/guess what someone else's internal motivations are. ("Judge not, lest ye be judged.") No, I don't see the researchers as willfully evil. I see them as not recognizing that what they are doing is not God's will.
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I were conducting such research, it would be very wrong. Because I accept God's word and live my life as his servant, I will be held to a different standard by everyone. And justly so.
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Originally Posted by mriff
The embryos that are being used in this research are, unfortunately, being discarded anyway. I think that's a terrible thing to do.
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Yes, discarding is just as bad as "researching" to me.
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Originally Posted by mriff
But if they are being destroyed, why shouldn't we make an attempt to learn more about treating some very devastating diseases?
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I'm coming at this from a wildly different angle. To me, "spare" embryos should not exist in the first place. If people are having fertility troubles, generating just enough embryos to implant is one thing... making extras just in case is quite another. (I recognize this is, in part, a financial issue.)
I believe the most responsible thing to do, morally and ecologically, if one cannot conceive naturally is adopt. But that's just me.