Stem Cell Research and Abortion
OOOH.. two hot button topics in one subject line.
One of my coworkers fancies himself a Christian and a scientist. He believes that life begins at conception. He is against abortion. He is now unhappy with his sister. She had IVF and has leftover embryos and she is upset because she doesn't know what to do with the extras. Unless some agency spits out some women to carry these embryos they are probably going into the trash. He thinks that she should have had counseling about the results of IVF before she did it and that she was mentally messed up with the overwhelming desire to have a kid regardless of the consequences.
He is a wuss. If he was actually a hardcore Christian he would rally to ban IVF. His sister is inadvertently promoting abortion (if you apply life at conception rule) because those embryos will probably be tossed in the trash. Obviously he wants good Christian families to have babies regardless if they are unable to naturally. What a total hypocrite! You never hear about these right-to-lifers protesting IVF even though it ALWAYS results in extra embryos.
The genetic imperative to breed obvious overrides their weak "morals" based on religion regarding dead babies.
For the record, I think that IVF is perfectly fine, stem cell research should be done (but not by using women as body farms to deliberately produce embryos solely for research consumption), and abortion is fine (provided it is not used a form of birth control).
One of my coworkers fancies himself a Christian and a scientist. He believes that life begins at conception. He is against abortion. He is now unhappy with his sister. She had IVF and has leftover embryos and she is upset because she doesn't know what to do with the extras. Unless some agency spits out some women to carry these embryos they are probably going into the trash. He thinks that she should have had counseling about the results of IVF before she did it and that she was mentally messed up with the overwhelming desire to have a kid regardless of the consequences.
He is a wuss. If he was actually a hardcore Christian he would rally to ban IVF. His sister is inadvertently promoting abortion (if you apply life at conception rule) because those embryos will probably be tossed in the trash. Obviously he wants good Christian families to have babies regardless if they are unable to naturally. What a total hypocrite! You never hear about these right-to-lifers protesting IVF even though it ALWAYS results in extra embryos.
The genetic imperative to breed obvious overrides their weak "morals" based on religion regarding dead babies.
For the record, I think that IVF is perfectly fine, stem cell research should be done (but not by using women as body farms to deliberately produce embryos solely for research consumption), and abortion is fine (provided it is not used a form of birth control).