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Originally posted by bilmore
I know little of this topic, but my impression is that what he's blocking involves fetal stem cells, that those cells are only available from dead feti, and that he believes that, if one opposes abortion, one must also oppose the use of those aborted feti, from where, I presume, most such cells come.
So, in the anti-abortion crowd's minds, and, obviously, in Bush's mind, you are choosing your life over the lives of others.
Obviously, if you are not among that anti-abortion crowd, this argument resonates not at all. But, to make the statements that you made without even acknowledging the basis for their anti-stem-cell position is sort of simplistic, I think, and pretty much guarantees that there will never be productive discussion.
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Actually, what he has banned is federal funding for any program which uses a method of implanting a cell nucleus with dna into ovum which are already existing in a frozen state in fertility clinics throughout the country. These ovum will, if not used for stem cell production, be disposed of. In other words, the eggs will die. Period.
I don't know that they use aborted feti for stem cell reproduction, but if in fact they do, then my respeonse is that abortion is currently legal, and these aborted eggs will be destroyed if not used for stem cell production.
In either case, someone, either Bush or me, is making a choice of one life over another. Except that we already know I'm a living breathing human being, and these eggs will never be a living breathing human.
It's not a matter of me selfishly choosing my life over another's any more than the decsion not to allow stem cell production is a choice to sacrifice my life to prevent the loss of a cystoblast which might under other circumstances become a person. Either way, people are choosing who will live and who will die. Nobody can claim the moral ground on that question.
