The embryos used in research are not suffering in the slightest, but that doesn't seem to make any difference to the anti-stem cell research extremists.
Here let me fix that for you: The embryos infants used in research are not suffering in the slightest, but that doesn't seem to make any difference to the anti-stem cell research extremists. To change the name to make something more palatable is very common, to desensitize people to what is actually taking place.
You know, you're right.
And I guess, using your logic, it would be OK to take comatose people who are going to die anyway and use them for experiments for new techniques on curing diseases.
Comatose people aren't suffering in the slightest.
What we are against, is the forcable rape of our values and morals by other people who do not share them. You may argue all day and all night for this type of research. I say, go ahead and do it. Just don't take the money out of my wallet to do it! There are no laws which forbid it. Take your argument to other people like Oprah and Ted Turner. They have much more money than I do. Why not yell at them, because they are not financing this "research". They don't have a problem with it. I do. Leave me and my money alone.
I'm sure that if you killed a five-year-old with an overdose of general anesthetic, you could say he suffered not in the least, either, but you still killed him. Likewise, embryonic stem cell research (painlessly) kills a human being at an earlier stage of life.
The problem with doing embryonic stem cell research is that it might encourage people to advocate sacrificing human beings at other stages of life for research.
There is an ethical alternative: adult stem cell research.