Comments on: Do we have to kill them? http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2007/01/11/do-we-have-to-kill-them.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:49:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Karen http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2007/01/11/do-we-have-to-kill-them.html#comment-1954 Karen Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:05:22 +0000 http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2007/01/11/do-we-have-to-kill-them.html#comment-1954 Well said, Matt. For the record, Bob, an embryo is a human being in his/her first stages of development, so it is destroying human life. Not only is embryonic stem cell research unethical, it hasn't even been shown to have any promise. Adult stem cells, on the other hand, DO show promise, and there's no moral problem with it. Why is this alternative being ignored? Well said, Matt.

For the record, Bob, an embryo is a human being in his/her first stages of development, so it is destroying human life.

Not only is embryonic stem cell research unethical, it hasn’t even been shown to have any promise. Adult stem cells, on the other hand, DO show promise, and there’s no moral problem with it. Why is this alternative being ignored?

]]> By: Matt http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2007/01/11/do-we-have-to-kill-them.html#comment-1938 Matt Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:46:12 +0000 http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2007/01/11/do-we-have-to-kill-them.html#comment-1938 First off, how is it pro-life to freeze an embryo? Second, how is it pro-life to create embryos for the sake of destroying them? The fact of the matter is that an embryo, no matter how or why it was created, is a human life. Kill an embryo, kill a child. So, along come those who say ... it's a "frozen embryo ... which will be discarded in any case". Are the objections supposed to dissolve when the dignity due human life is disregarded? I fail to see the logic in <i>that</i>. When we use human beings for parts, we put at risk no less than our own humanity. First off, how is it pro-life to freeze an embryo? Second, how is it pro-life to create embryos for the sake of destroying them?

The fact of the matter is that an embryo, no matter how or why it was created, is a human life.

Kill an embryo, kill a child.

So, along come those who say … it’s a “frozen embryo … which will be discarded in any case”. Are the objections supposed to dissolve when the dignity due human life is disregarded?

I fail to see the logic in that.

When we use human beings for parts, we put at risk no less than our own humanity.

]]> By: Bob Cornwall http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2007/01/11/do-we-have-to-kill-them.html#comment-1937 Bob Cornwall Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:47:02 +0000 http://blog.catholicsphere.com/2007/01/11/do-we-have-to-kill-them.html#comment-1937 How is using frozen embryos, created in a petri-dish, and which will be discarded in any case, killing children. I don't see the logic in this and I certainly don't see the biblical evidence for such a rationale. Isn't it truly pro-life to care for the living over the frozen embryo? How is using frozen embryos, created in a petri-dish, and which will be discarded in any case, killing children. I don’t see the logic in this and I certainly don’t see the biblical evidence for such a rationale. Isn’t it truly pro-life to care for the living over the frozen embryo?

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