Read More About Stem Cells

Sometimes I wonder if people even know anything about the subjects they see in the news. If anyone bothered to do a little fact finding there would be no debate about stem cell research. In order to harvest embryonic stem cells it is necessary to destroy the embryos. This bothers many people because they happen to believe that doing so is killing a human being. This belief is irrelevant to whether or not we should conduct embryonic stem cell research. Many embryos are created as byproducts of invetro fertilization. These embryos are frozen and eventually will be thrown out when they are no longer viable. They will never be implanted into a womb to grow into children. Since not one of these embryos will ever achieve any usefulness or a long and healthy life they are going to waste. Using these embryos for research that could help people is far better than treating them as junk to be thrown out. People who argue against the use of these embryos are not advocating saving a life but are condemning the embryos to death in a trash heap. They argue not to allow them to contribute what little they can to the world in the form of useful research. If these people argued for the end of invetro fertilization, which creates these wasted embryos, I might agree with them but their position is illogical. It would be a far better position for them to ask doctors to end the practice of invetro fertilization and for the women who hold this position to volunteer themselves for implantation with these embryos so that they can grow into healthy children.