[trebb]

I don't see the problem with using embryos created in the process of fertility treatments which are due to be destroyed anyway. If the argument is that this encourages abortion, this has zero to do with that. This material is going to be created--artificial insemination and other such fertility treatments are here to stay and are not going anywhere, period. So why NOT use them?

All slippery-slope deals begin with a seemingly benign explanation. The next thing you know, taxpayer money will be spent to entice folks to have these "fertiltiy treatments" with the sole intent of acquiring new stem cell lines. A pinhole in the dam soon starts eroding all around it until the dam breaks.

[XR7]

A pinhole in the dam soon starts eroding all around it until the dam breaks.

Look around you.
Read the newspapers.
The dam is already broken.
The floodgates have burst.