It is fine to seek profits, and a company has a duty to do so, but that duty must be sought by moral means, and creating/killing fetuses for profit is not moral.
From post #14 above, how do you reconcile?
"If a parent could save their child's life but the only medical procedure that would save the child's life was in part derived from embryonic stem cells, should the parents save their child's life? What if the child was yours?"
From post #14 above, how do you reconcile?It is fine to seek profits, and a company has a duty to do so, but that duty must be sought by moral means, and creating/killing fetuses for profit is not moral.
"If a parent could save their child's life but the only medical procedure that would save the child's life was in part derived from embryonic stem cells, should the parents save their child's life? What if the child was yours?"The question of whether to use the fruits of murder is far different than the question of whether to murder in the first place, which is what I was addressing above. Is it moral to murder for increased profit? No.
As to whether to utilize the fruits of that murder after the fact, that question is frequently debated, at least in the circles I run in, regarding certain vaccines. IMHO it’s a factual situation. In other words, you need to consider the facts of each situation, the potential harm to the child (high in your scenario) the moral evil that you are benefiting from, whether your actions will tend to encourage future moral evils, etc. In the case of the vaccines, we have rejected some of them.
In order to answer your question I would need to know more. I would probably not use the procedure if they actually had to kill more embroyos for my child’s procedure. I might if the embryos were killed some time ago, and the treatment was derived from that but no longer depended from more killing. It just depends, but I’ve tried to give you an outline.
Now that I’ve done that, a question back to you:
"If a parent could save their child's life but the only medical procedure that would save the child's life was in part derived from sacrificing a child from some group society no longer cared for, say a Christian, a Jew, or a black person in Hillary Clinton’s ideal world, should the parents save their child's life? What if the child was yours?"Thanks,
patent +AMDG