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Originally posted by windword
reply to post by Khaleesi
How about I equate a fertilized egg with an apple seed? Either it's sacred from fertilization or it isn't sacred until birth.
Why not choose to be responsible and not have sex? Isn't that just choosing self gratification over responsibility?
Why are we comparing apples to babies? I do not understand the logic.
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by Khaleesi
Why not choose to be responsible and not have sex? Isn't that just choosing self gratification over responsibility?
Because sex is healthy, fun, entertaining and very important for intimacy and bonding.
Over 50% of abortions are due to birth control failure. That has nothing to do with "not being responsible."
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by Khaleesi
Why not choose to be responsible and not have sex? Isn't that just choosing self gratification over responsibility?
Because sex is healthy, fun, entertaining and very important for intimacy and bonding.
Over 50% of abortions are due to birth control failure. That has nothing to do with "not being responsible."
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by UnifiedSerenity
Do you have a problem with harvesting organs from the dead? I have no problem with the medical community making healing byproducts from something that's already dead.
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by Khaleesi
Fetal donation is granted by the woman having the abortion. She can choose not to.
Originally posted by Khaleesi
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by Khaleesi
Fetal donation is granted by the woman having the abortion. She can choose not to.
And those donations create money for businesses. Businesses making money off of death. You don't find that disturbing?
The three types of cells cultured from those fetal tissues - known to scientists as HEK293, WI-38 and MRC-5 - have revolutionized the prevention and treatment of human disease.
They are used to create the vaccines we inoculate our children with to prevent rubella, mumps, measles, chicken pox, polio, rabies and hepatitis.
Before these vaccines, just one rubella epidemic killed 2,100 newborns, caused 30,000 birth defects and triggered miscarriages in 6,250 women. Polio infected 57,000 and killed 3,000 every year.
HEK293 cells have been used to synthesize human proteins such as insulin and blood-clotting factors. They allow researchers to coax adult human stem cells into becoming nerve, heart, liver and pancreatic cells. Most recently, HEK293 cells have been used to produce gene-delivery viruses that could help generate the cells that many believe hold the cures to Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's and Huntington's disease - diseases for which there are no cures and very little offered in the way of treatment. There is also great hope to develop treatments for diseases that affect millions of people, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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Originally posted by windword
Nope. Medical research cost money.
And that brings us back to the most basic question.
Come down off you high horse. Doctors, judges, police and legislators play God everyday. If a woman doesn't have sovereignty over her own body, then she's a slave to it. Slavery was outlawed many years ago.
Fetal donation is granted by the woman having the abortion. She can choose not to.