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To: SoothingDave
I think it is horrible for folks to use IVF to make embryos

Do you really mean this in principle, or do you mean that it's horrible that embryos get discarded in the process as it is currently practiced?

Frankly, anyone who is opposed in principle to IVF cannot be called pro-life.

23 posted on 11/28/2001 10:38:33 AM PST by Physicist
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To: Physicist
Do you really mean this in principle, or do you mean that it's horrible that embryos get discarded in the process as it is currently practiced?

I mean what I said.

Frankly, anyone who is opposed in principle to IVF cannot be called pro-life.

Even is IVF would be used without "surplus" embryos in freezers and without "selective reduction" of surplus implanted embryos, it is still wrong. That is what I said.

Playing God by artificially making babies in test tubes is wrong. We have plenty of actually existing children in this world without people having to tickle their vanity by having one of their own genetic material. We have plenty of young girls aborting their offspring. When we have learned to respect existing life better, perhaps we can then go about creating life to satisfy our own whims.

SD

24 posted on 11/28/2001 10:46:46 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Physicist
Frankly, anyone who is opposed in principle to IVF cannot be called pro-life.

It is clear from your comments on this thread that you have a very poor understanding of the pro-life movement. Therefore one can't take your pronouncements as to who can or can't be called pro-life very seriously.

For one thing you ignore the fact that the objection to cloning and the oppositon to abortion or killing of embryos come from different principles, both of them pro life. The objection to abortion is that it is homicide. The objection to cloning and the other activities involving the creation of human life varies depending on the religious or ethical background of the pro life person, but all find this practise to be unwholesome, and devaluing of the human person.

29 posted on 11/28/2001 11:05:16 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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