RoadKill
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From The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR):
"Where do stem cells come from? Embryonic stem cells are derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst: the fertilized egg, called the zygote, divides and forms two cells; each of these cells divides again, and so on. Soon there is a hollow ball of about 150 cells called the blastocyst that contains two types of cells, the trophoblast and the inner cell mass. Embryonic stem cells are obtained from the inner cell mass."
glfredrick,
I don't understand, if you believe that it is up to God to end life, how can you oppose the use of a blastocyte to develop life-saving medicine yet support state-sanctioned murder?
G o o g l e : innocence project
"The Death Penalty Information Center has identified 129 inmates who have been released from death row since 1977 owing to new evidence. Nine were exonerated and freed last year after serving a combined 121 years behind bars" (Salt Lake City Tribune, April 17, 2010).
"...In Matthew 25, Jesus, himself a victim of capital punishment, teaches that what we do to one of his 'least brothers,' we do to him—which certainly should give us pause when we contemplate an execution. Sister Helen reminds us that he taught us 'not to return hate with hate, violence with violence.' She urges us to 'reflect on what capital punishment is doing to us as a society'" (McBride, American Catholic dot org).
But you oppose the use of cells are not yet differentiated that may save countless lives?
"Where do stem cells come from? Embryonic stem cells are derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst: the fertilized egg, called the zygote, divides and forms two cells; each of these cells divides again, and so on. Soon there is a hollow ball of about 150 cells called the blastocyst that contains two types of cells, the trophoblast and the inner cell mass. Embryonic stem cells are obtained from the inner cell mass."
glfredrick,
I don't understand, if you believe that it is up to God to end life, how can you oppose the use of a blastocyte to develop life-saving medicine yet support state-sanctioned murder?
G o o g l e : innocence project
"The Death Penalty Information Center has identified 129 inmates who have been released from death row since 1977 owing to new evidence. Nine were exonerated and freed last year after serving a combined 121 years behind bars" (Salt Lake City Tribune, April 17, 2010).
"...In Matthew 25, Jesus, himself a victim of capital punishment, teaches that what we do to one of his 'least brothers,' we do to him—which certainly should give us pause when we contemplate an execution. Sister Helen reminds us that he taught us 'not to return hate with hate, violence with violence.' She urges us to 'reflect on what capital punishment is doing to us as a society'" (McBride, American Catholic dot org).
But you oppose the use of cells are not yet differentiated that may save countless lives?
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