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And what about all the genetically defective embryos, such as the ones which Reproductive Genetics Institute announced yesterday that it had used to establish stem cell lines carrying specific serious genetic defects, for use in research on those diseases? Do you really think those embryos are going to be adopted? Are you going to adopt and carry to term an embryo which you know has muscular dystrophy or Fanconi's anemia, when there is a huge supply of genetically normal embryos? And in the case of these new defect-carrying stem cell lines, the biological parents WANTED the embryos used for research (likely because most of these parents already had a child afflicted with one of these horrible disease, and hope to spare others from it). Should the government really be able to force these parents to leave these embryos languishing in a freezer with no realistic chance of adoption?

Okay, imagine this:

Parents have several children, and they all have a genetic disease. Turns out the parents are carriers, and the odds have been against them. So, with their fourth child, when they realize that he has this disease, they decide to donate him to science so that they can research the disease. The parents WANT him to be used for research, you know. In fact, they went through genetic testing before he was born, just to be sure they were providing a child with the disease. They give him up just after birth, so that there is no real attachment to him.

If this is horrifying, then GOOD. It ought to be! But, my real question to you is, why is it NOT horrifying to have the parents do this with their child before he is born? You are the same entity you were when you were conceived (zygote, blastocyst, embryo, fetus) as you are today. The only difference is that you are more developed. Creating a human life just for the purposes of research on that human is deplorable, and fit for Nazis. ESCR is just that: creating a life in order to kill him/her.