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I keep seeing people post that a fertilized egg is "life" and I'm wondering if they feel that frozen embryos are "life".
I see posts talking about how we should stop abortion, but I don't see anyone trying to limit fertility clinics from purging their stock of embryos. Why is this?
It's a conundrum of religious dogma. In vitro fertilization as a practice has the effect of creating life where none would have otherwise existed. This eventually serves to increase the number of souls in Heaven capable of glorifying God, and this is an ultimate good. The fact that, as a side effect, hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos may end up the the receptacle marked 'Medical Waste' is of course troubling. But how can one call for a stop to that without also issuing a call to reduce and deny recognition of the glory of God?
I keep seeing people post that a fertilized egg is "life" and I'm wondering if they feel that frozen embryos are "life".
I see posts talking about how we should stop abortion, but I don't see anyone trying to limit fertility clinics from purging their stock of embryos. Why is this?
No, they're not baby's, they're frozen embryos. Baby's are the pink things that blink, smile, coo, and fill their drawers quite often. Baby's breath. Baby's move. Embryos dont. That's why they call the embryos.
If we define death (or killing) as the stopping of a beating human heart, then the first heartbeat would define the start of a "life" at which time "life" should have all rights and privileges of any other US citizen. While I abhor abortion, I can't see taking "life" back to when there is not yet a heartbeat. It is my opinion that IVF "egg planting" isn't "life" until it's successfully planted in the womb and a heart starts beating. But I'm open to other logical approaches to this view....
I have a very hard time believing that God is pleased with our attempts to create life. It certainly isn't normal.
They must be alive or so many people wouldn't have such a hizzy fit about them being "killed" for stem cell research.
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