I just can't see how if this cloning process we're discussing can't possible ever have a heart, brain, lungs, etc., how can it be thought of as a human being? Ever? How is taking a human life an issue here? This is not growing a human being. This is simply growing tissue that can help human beings. We have to be rational here. I fear often Christian conservatives go to a fanatical extreme. Certainly, conservatives, at least, factor God into their thinking. Hence, they have that spiritual aid to lead them in their thinking. When God is not part of your thinking, then you go way out of whack to the right. You don't factor the God quotient into your thinking, and therefore, you have no spiritual guidance. Now you have no rudder, whatsoever! So it seems we should use both our common sense along that spiritual rudder to guide us. Right? Common sense tells me if there's no person involved, and no potential for there to be one, there's no sin involved, especially when this is being done to help living human beings.
Any sane human being would be totally against partial birth abortions. That's a horror story in itself.
Any sane human being would be totally against partial birth abortions. That's a horror story in itself.
Not intended to be life forms? By whom, the scientists who take an egg and a sperm (fertilized egg=life form, IMO) and place them in a test tube to grow until it suits their purposes? Max is right...we have no proper ethical, much less moral, framework for this. So the slide begins.
We're not talking about SCNT here...(somatic cell nuclear transfer). We're talking about human embryos. The little ones placed in women's wombs for the purpose of giving that woman a child. They 'clone' (which may not be the right word) the cells from human embryos.
And you're right...I don't have to have any procedure involving this. But as a Christian, I do feel a responsibility to speak and act against what I believe is wrong in God's view.
Just as you speak and act against what you feel is wrong, yes?
We're not talking about SCNT here...(somatic cell nuclear transfer). We're talking about human embryos. The little ones placed in women's wombs for the purpose of giving that woman a child. They 'clone' (which may not be the right word) the cells from human embryos.
And you're right...I don't have to have any procedure involving this. But as a Christian, I do feel a responsibility to speak and act against what I believe is wrong in God's view.
Just as you speak and act against what you feel is wrong, yes?