> Why not kill them ...
We are not, so far as I know, talking about creating embryos in order to kill them and harvest their cells. We are talking about embryos that have already been killed. So your analogy does not hold, any more than someone opposed to kidney transplants would have a valid arguement about Americans murdering people for their organs.
We aren't?
I thought what we were talking about was using embryos that were created as part on an in vitro fertilization process.
You know, the process where a couple want one or perhaps two of their own biological children. So they create seven or eight "just in case".
Suppose, though, that the couple only needs two embryos. What to do with those other "excess" ones??
I know!
Let's kill them and harvest their cells!
Old, useless embryos. Not "really" human. Gonna die anyway.
Besides, the couple is probably paying the IVF facility a fee to keep the useless gonna-die-anyway embryos alive.
And no doubt, the IVF needs bedspace more room to store the additional "just-in-case embryos.
That's the solution -- kill the useless and the unwanted who are gonna die anyway. Who needs them?
As far as I know,people who are organ donors (and I am one) do not have to be worried about someone deciding that they are useless, Organ donors are not killed or euthanized.
Embryos are.