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Harvesting stem cells from aborted fetuses

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  • Fair warning; I go completely off track, into a rant about the state of medical ethics.

    In theory, the problem is 'but then, people will get abortions just to sell the cells to dastardly cell buyers.'

    This, of course, pre-supposes that women shouldn't have the right to surgically remove bits of themselves.

    Is the foetus a person in the first trimester? Maybe, maybe not. Me, I say no; as far as I'm concerned, until it's capable of surviving relatively well outside of the womb, it's not a separate and di

    • It's good to see another nerd with like thinking then. I just tossed it out before I got deep into it because I wanted to test the waters.

      I definetly do not have a problem with it. In fact, I believe that for the short run, collecting fetus's is a good thing because it will lead to not having to collect them.

      Collecting them will lead to research into how to keep fetuses alive outside the womb, which will lead to techniques that can save lives! Isn't that what the pro-choicers want to do in the long run?
      • [quote] Collecting them will lead to research into how to keep fetuses alive outside the womb, which will lead to techniques that can save lives! Isn't that what the pro-choicers want to do in the long run?[/quote]

        Me thinks you mean pro life, not pro choice. But it's long been my experience that the vast majority of 'pro life' people are actually 'anti-women having any say in anything, now get in the damn kitchen and bake me a pie.'

        Stem cells will save lives? Immaterial; they *might*. That alone, in m

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