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To: DoughtyOne
Thanks for your thoughtful response.

Let me address the second part of your answer, since I am not an expert on Heaven and Hell;
2. Is there self-awareness of the human embryo at one week along?  No.
3. Is there a sensation of pain associated with termination at that stage?  No.
3. Would I approve of these human embryos advancing beyond one week outside the human female body?  No.
4. Do I think God would damn those who were trying to help others by manipulating very young human embryos?  I don't that's a given at all.
5. Should I approve of limited scientific research on the less than week old human embryo?  I believe so.
6. Should we use this research to try to cure Parkinsons and other diseases in adults and children?  I believe so.

If you will bear with a qualification of my previous thought experiment; suppose you were there in 1953, sometime around Christmas, when I began to exist. If the technology had been available, and I had begun my existence 7 days previously, would you approve if some scientist, knowing that it would kill me, removed me from my mother and used my body cells for scientific research? Further, do you believe that such an action would not only have been permissible, but should have been considered a moral obligation for those contemplating the act because they had a duty to try to cure Parkinsons and other diseases in adults and [other] children?

Cordially,

263 posted on 06/20/2003 7:56:19 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: Diamond
On the subject of termination of fetus inside the womb and outside

LINK Thoughts on womb v outside the womb
LINK Thoughts on womb v outside the womb
LINK Thoughts on womb v outside the womb, specific reference to disagreeing with termination of life within the womb
LINK More comments on abortion and a reference to the termination of a 40 week old fetus outside the womb

I think this should help
270 posted on 06/20/2003 9:14:47 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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