yukoncpa
02-13-2006, 03:44 AM
Did anyone see “60 minutes,” tonight? The topic was; what was to be done with unused, frozen embryo’s? Fertility clinics give infertile females medication to stimulate the production of eggs, these eggs are removed and fertilized invitrio and then placed one at a time back into the female. If the fertilized eggs take, that’s the end of the process, otherwise it is repeated. Most often there is an excess of fertilized eggs that remain frozen. The president won’t let them be used for stem cell research because that involves destroying the embryo.
These frozen embryo’s are allowed to be put up for adoption, but as it turns out, few people want to adopt in this manner.
Enter Robert George, a person on Bush’s council of bioethics. He says that people need more encouragement to adopt these embryos. He also says that these embryo’s have human dignity and ought to be given a decent burial or cremation rather than what is currently being done, which is throwing them in the trash. George claims that his opinions are those of the President’s.
A scientist explained that these eggs will die regardless. Couples must spend up to $2000 a year to keep the eggs frozen and perpetual freezing over the long run kills the eggs eventually anyway. There’s something like 400,000 current frozen embryo’s ( 1000 per day are being trashed) and only 100 people have adopted these embryos - which involves impregnating an woman with an embryo that will in no way be physically related to her.
My questions: Wouldn’t it be better to use these embryo’s to cure cancer, etc, and wouldn’t it be better for couples to adopt babies that already exist? What’s up with the President’s policy?
These frozen embryo’s are allowed to be put up for adoption, but as it turns out, few people want to adopt in this manner.
Enter Robert George, a person on Bush’s council of bioethics. He says that people need more encouragement to adopt these embryos. He also says that these embryo’s have human dignity and ought to be given a decent burial or cremation rather than what is currently being done, which is throwing them in the trash. George claims that his opinions are those of the President’s.
A scientist explained that these eggs will die regardless. Couples must spend up to $2000 a year to keep the eggs frozen and perpetual freezing over the long run kills the eggs eventually anyway. There’s something like 400,000 current frozen embryo’s ( 1000 per day are being trashed) and only 100 people have adopted these embryos - which involves impregnating an woman with an embryo that will in no way be physically related to her.
My questions: Wouldn’t it be better to use these embryo’s to cure cancer, etc, and wouldn’t it be better for couples to adopt babies that already exist? What’s up with the President’s policy?