I'm wondering how you would feel if the embryos in question were not destroyed but were also not implanted.
Some people on this thread believe that the 8 celled embryos have a soul and therefore cannot not be destroyed without moral consequence. But not destroying them does not require that they also be implanted.
Suppose the parents in this case simply chose to allow the seven remaining cells in the blastospheres with severe genetic problems to live until they died a natural death over a period of days, weeks, years, decades, or whatever time period that might be. In this scenario the parents take no active steps to harm these seven cells.
When the last of the seven cells dies naturally, the soul would presumably move on the same as any other soul departing a fully grown person, correct? And the parents and medical establishment will have avoided the murder of an innocent unborn, correct?
Or does the mere creation of a blastosphere morally require implantation to avoid being deemed a murderer?
jas3
> Some people on this thread believe that the 8 celled embryos have a soul and therefore cannot not be destroyed without moral consequence.
Yet I don't see them lining up for implantation.
That fertilized egg is a separate, distinct human being from all the rest on the planet. It has the full set of human chromosomes in a unique combination. Whether or not it implants does not change that.
How does implantation determine humanness if genetics don't? If they implanted a fertilized sheep egg in a cow, you still have a sheep. It doesn't become a cow upon implantation. What is is is due to it's genetic makeup not whether it makes it past a certain stage of growth.
I'm wondering how you would feel if the embryos in question were not destroyed but were also not implanted.
The same way I would feel about someone who saw someone else dying and walked away to let them die instead of doing something to help them. I'd consider that murder. It may not be considered that in a court of law but that still makes it wrong. Why deliberately create life knowing you intend to end some of it? And how is it dofferent if you cctively destroy it or let it go through callous neglect?