Blue Skies said:
I resent that many insurance companies pay thousands for infertility treatments. Infertility by itself results in zero deaths a year, while cancer patients have to fight for payment for bone marrow transplants and other treatments need to save their lives... if people want to maintain it's wrong to use embryos for stem cell research because it might lead to the creation of embryos just for research, then it should be wrong to intentionally create more embryos than you can birth and parent.
I just can't tell you how many times I say this--to anyone who'll listen. There is no way someone can call themself Pro-life and be pro-IVF at the same time. ANd then to turn around and not let the stemcells be used to help people seems like an awful waste. Better to "kill" them, I guess.
Duane said:
Babies are killed naturally every day, and people do not know about it! What happens to the successful conceptions that don't hook up with the walls of the uterus? That fetus doesn't get mourned. What about the spontaneous natural abortions that happen? Is there active research on drugs that will be given to a woman to suppress the tendency to reject "malformed babies" in the womb when she is found to be pregnant so that spontaneous abortions won't happen?
I find this line of thought very, very disturbing.
As do I. And another thing, why is Viagra covered on so many insurance plans and Birth control pills not? This is senseless and sexist. Lord knows every man should be able to have sex for free, but women should have to pay to protect herself. The religious right is making sure there will never be a lack of children.
Blue Skies and Duane,
You can speak for me any day of the week. I agree with 100% of both your fabulous posts. Bravo!
Kim
