If I could die to save an embryo - guaranteed - I may well do it. Is that an inflammatory statement? Why then, do we talk so casually about killing embryos for ourselves?
The ones demanding other people die for them are, imho, those least worth dying for. The very fact they demand death for their lives nullifies their own worthiness.
I WILL NEVER, EVER ACCEPT TREATMENT THAT HAS RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. PERIOD. EVEN IF IT MEANS MY OWN LIFE. If others feel this way, we need to start a national "Stop the killing" registry. I'm sick and tired to the point of rage of hearing the left-wing ads here in WA state about "The Republican wants to scale back embryonic stem cell research", as though that were a BAD thing. NO!!! That's a GOOD THING! Life is a good thing.
Sorry, I feel passionately about this matter, enough to die for it.
My prayer is that embryo research continues to fail.
If embryo research breaks through, political restraint will collapse; other research lines will be dropped; and the industrial prodcution process will ramp up. Many thousands of embyros will then be consumed for the sake of treating the few. Cloning will probably be needed to meet the manufacturing requirements.
Having lost the political battle over embryonic cells, I'll then have the happy prospect of keeping my son on painful and only modestly effective old therapies while all around us other young diabetics receive their "miracle cures" and return to normal life. This is my personal nightmare scenario!