I am not intent on anyone being sacrificed. If you have read my posts, you would see that I am for advancement of research that does not depend on the destruction of human life.
Also, how do you know that your spinal nerves don’t have potential to help? Of course I was being sarcastic in asking that.
My point was that there are ethical lines to what type of research should be done. There is no public outcry for research that would require the destruction of already born humans because it is obviously wrong.
If we advance embryonic stem cell research, it is only going to increase the demand for more embryos. There are also many more problems that need to be resolved using embryonic cells with rejection from the patients immune system. This problem does not exist when adult stem cell from the patient are used.
It makes more sense ethically, scientifically and financially to develop adult stem cells instead of embryonic.
Oh? Support this claim, please.
How does that in with the research that is the topic of this thread?
There are thousands of embryos in storage, left over from in-vitro fertilization attempts. Some have been "abandoned" by their parents, who no longer pay the storage fees required by the labs, and who don't want any other children, but don't want to give the embryos away to other couples or destroy them, either. Many of these couples would be willing to give the embryos to research, however (at least according to polls of the couples).