Posted on 06/21/2007 4:31:25 PM PDT by wagglebee
Baltimore, MD (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll conducted by researchers at Duke University Medical Center and John Hopkins University has real concerns for the pro-life community. It found that 60 percent of Americans who are fertility patients would subject their human embryos to scientific research if they weren't going to birth them.
The poll asked patients what they would do with so-called "leftover" human embryos they had no desire to implant and give birth to in a full-term pregnancy.
The poll found that 22 percent would be interested in donating their embryos to couples who are looking for children to adopt. Pro-life advocates say that more should be done to promote the avenue.
Anne Drapkin Lyerly at Duke, talked about the study in a statement and indicated that it was published in the Science Express publication.
She appeared excited by the results and claimed that using so many of the frozen human embryos in existence would be a scientific boon.
"Previous research indicates that there are approximately 400,000 frozen embryos stored in the United States," she said. "If half of those belong to people who are willing to donate embryos for research, and only half that number were in fact donated, there could still be 100,000 embryos available for research."
Ultimately if that many human lives are taken, they would produce 2,000 to 3,000 usable stem cell lines, the researchers said -- which is 100 times the number currently allowed to receive federal funding.
In the study, some 1,020 people were questions who had human embryos frozen at fertility clinics in California, Colorado, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania.
She appeared excited by the results and claimed that using so many of the frozen human embryos in existence would be a scientific boon.
I'm sure Dr. Mengele felt the same way.
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I can’t help but wonder if this attitude is exactly why they need fertility treatment in the first place.
Ugh! I don’t know why I read articles like this. Her giddiness just makes me sick to my stomach. :o(
Me too!
I don’t know about all of these places where individuals were polled, but I do know that California, Oregon and Washington DC are extremely “blue state” areas and have a suspicion that the others may be as well.
The other piece is I suspect they polled folks in metro areas, more likely to have access to the technology, and notably more liberal.
Gosh, d’ya think they might have picked those places to poll for a reason?
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That's no surprise. After all, these are the same narcissists who would rather spend tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars perpetuating their own faulty DNA rather than adopt a needy child. These sociopaths have no moral inhibitions against destructive research or abortion. Children aren't real people to them, they are merely objects of achievement.
“Leftover” human beings.
Beyond sick and disgusting.
(Feeling a bit better, may be back on the job tomorrow)
It’s like the Nazi doctors rejoicing over the extra Jews they could kill. This is horrible. All these people killed for what has been unsuccessful research. I pray it stays that way for the sake of the children.
Once a couple/person accepts the commoditization of embryo aged humans, there is no longer a person until the parents say there is ... in their utilitarian minds. Just ask any person who has had in vitro fert to bring a child into the world ... they will twist their mind into pretzels to justify the commoditization of their embryonic children.
Liberal? I dunno, look at Orrin Hatch who favors the utility of cannibalizing these very young humans who he doesn’t believe are human beings until implanted in a womb.
"Eugenics", I think, is the correct term. Is Mum's "choice" going to be strained through future scientific collanders?
The Brave New World is cowardice - not to mention ghoulish.
Well, I don't need to, since I am one.
It's not like that at all.
If this is too personal, please forgive the prying and just disregard the question: having used in vitro fert, would you ‘donate’ any ‘extra embryos’ leftover from the process, or would you allow only a snowflake adoption process for these embryos (if there are any left from your procedures)?
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