Whats your opinion on using aborted fetuses for stem cell research?

Question

Whats so horrible about abortion?

Whats your opinion on it?

Answer 1

It's great, might as well put those dead babies to good use right?

So, companies all want stem cells for medical research, what if the demand is extremely high for them?

Will women start aborting fetuses to make money?

Answer 2

THEY DON'T! You need to get the facts straight before you go and assume things like this. They take a sperm and an egg and culture it into an embryo (clump of unspecialized cells). They use these unspecialized stem cells for stem cell research. Holy c**p, dude.

Answer 3

My personal belief is that all dead bodies should be used for research of some type, and then cremated.

But beyond that, if no one ever researched a dead baby, we would never know any of the things we currently know about fetal development and prenatal care.  No, we dont have to do that now, because we know.  But at one point in time someone had to do medical research on a lot of different fetuses.  Why was it ok for that, but not ok for stem cells?  

Bottom line, abortion is legal and it does happen.  Why is it wrong to research the body?  The rest of the bottom line is that the product of conception legally belongs to the mother.  She can sign it over to the clinic to be thrown away, she can take it to be buried, and she can donate it to research.

ANd personally, on a moral stand point, I think its a slap in the face that they just get thrown in the biowaste.  For whatever reason, no one wanted that small short life, so they got rid of it.  ANd then throw it in the trash? OMG!!  If we use them for research, then that small short life has the chance to mean something, to have a purpose, to help others.

Answer 4

Nothing is horrible about abortion. A fetus doesn't have memories, emotional attachment, experiences or desperate, dying hopes of a sliver of happiness in their future. They are a blob of goo in the process of being animated. It does not have a soul, religion is a completely invalid argument in this.

Yes, it has the potential to be somebody, but so did the teenage meth addict born to a poor family, or a soldier killed in a war. The world is a frightening place with death and misery - others must die so we can prosper, this is the reason behind ANY WAR, EVER; if you want to focus on saving lives why don't you focus on the ones who actually have an emotional attachment to life?

Another thing is if we do not accept abortions, we will get to a point where we cannot support every unwanted child and surplus population - the population must be slowed regardless of your "ethical" objections.

Also, as to "well she shouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place". No; that is a completely irrelevant statement, the fact remains that it is unwanted - and trying to stop creatures who's main psychological motivation is s*x from doing so is just stupid and a waste of everyone's time.

I'm sure you can guess my opinion on using them for stem cell research.

(edit: just to be clear; when I say "you", I'm talking to a general audience, not the asker :P)

Answer 5

Let me say that I doubt very seriously that those who have spoken out against it so far would refuse treatments derived from this research for themselves or their loved ones if it meant saving their lives. It's funny how morality goes out the door in such circumstances.

Answer 6

If I were the abortee...I would be horrified!

Answer 7

Embryonic stem cells is what you are writing about.  

My opinion is if they are willing to allow abortion they may as well allow the use of fetuses for a common good among the citizens.  

If you are not well studied regarding the issue I urge you to get online and go to your local library for information; it is amazing what these cells can do.  They are the closest thing to defining God's power there ever was.  Something from nothing; that is what we are talking about.  The ability for a speck of substance to develop, and know what to develop into, and arm, a leg, a heart, etc.

Simply amazing!

And it seems hypocritical for doctors to perform the killings, if that is what people want to call them, and not allow the greatest good from the bad action.

Answer 8

They use embryos, not fetuses.

I have no problem with it.

Answer 9

as a Christian I find it  wrong as a woman ,  the choice should be ours , so i thought . obamas quote about partial birth adoptions changed my mind/dont punish a man and a woman with a baby cuz they had a lil fun.I saw the clip on partial birth adoption. down right ******* murder.

That right there changed my mind for all abortions. a life is a life is a life

death is death. murder is still murder,

I myself had a lil fun when i was 16 and became pregnant .Too young to raise my  baby. I chose adoption.I am the first cross state lines private adoption for my state,,my child now is a school teacher in New Mexico.I still havent met him yet . i have talked to him a couple of times when he was a teenager.

Answer 10

None of my business I don't give a shlt either way.  The hippies just need to get off the crack pipes and quit criticizing other peoples choices and get a FU_CKIN JOB.  

Answer 11

If a fetus is aborted and just going to chucked in the bin, then why would people worry about it being used for research?

Abortion has happened since the dawn of time it wil l continue

Answer 12

I don't think abortion is so terrible...I hate how people call it murder, when the d**n thing isn't even fully developed.  If someone wants an abortion, then it's no one's business but their own.  I think that if men could get pregnant, then abortion would be more widely excepted.

Using the foetuses for stem cell research (What else are we going to use them for?) sounds good to me.  Why not, we may just save an actual, fully developed, functioning, thinking human being's life.  

Answer 13

DO IT, and do it NOW.

Answer 14

Just the destruction and degradation of human life.

Kind of seems like adding insult to injury.

Answer 15

Abortion is murder plain and simple their are other options if you don't want to be a mother.

And using stem cells from a fetus just makes the practice of murdering babies even more attractive to people who want to keep baby murder legal.

Edit: Loki is rape and DV a factof life then and feminists should "Get over it" no I didn't think so. Both are wrong and so is killing infants so some woman won't be inconvenienced by the reults of her own actions.

Answer 16

Whether you agree with abortion or not - the fact is, once the abortion has taken place, it's a shame to let all those foetuses go to waste.  I mean, what else are you going to do with them?

Answer 17

Fetuses of what?!!

Human?!! they are all suckers if they did that..

Maybe they can use dead fetuses that was meant to be taken out of the mothers womb.

Or they can use animal fetuses if they want to..

As long as they do not use alive fetuses that was aborted for the sake of that freaky research is alright...

Answer 18

If the woman involved gives her permission, then I can't see anything wrong with it.

Cheers :-)

Answer 19

well you figure it's not like they have anything else to do with the fetuses, I mean what are they gonna go  out back and race them?

If it's already done, why not just use the d**n thing to help other people.

And in my opinion, misinformed people make it out to be far more horrible than it actually is, yes it's tragic but it's a fact of life, get over it.

Answer 20

If you use abortion as a form of birth control you should be stabbed.

Answer 21

h**l, if you want to get maximum use from fetuses, why not grind them down into cat food as well?  Fatten up the feministas' furry little darlins.

Answer 22

I think it is unethical, but more importantly it is unnecessary. Stem cells can right now be extracted from adult skin cells, wisdom teeth, even umbilical blood. It is no longer necessary to create life only to snuff it out.

Answer 23

what else are you going to use them for

you are killing innocent life

what else are you going to do with aborted fetuses

options

Throw it away

or

Use it to save lives