I am assuming that he believe harvesting embryonic stem cells would be fine. In fact why not take any unused fertilized eggs in storage at fertility clinics and donate them to science. How about private businesses buying sperm and eggs and making their own production of embryonic stem cells. The beginnings of a "Brave New World".
Is his position really a Pro-Life position?
Are you Pro-Life?
Do you believe we should be taking measures to make sure that all conceptions become implantations? If not, that’s a loss of life, yes?
Yes, I was there once myself.
The biblical logic is the verse that says, “The life is in the blood thereof.” and the fact that there is no blood until implantation.
It also deals with the countless numbers of fertilized eggs that never implant.
Now, I don’t know to what extent Gingrich has thought of this biblically or only in terms of the fertilized eggs that are sloughed off rather than implanted.
It is not an irrational position.
What made me change?
Honestly, I think it was spiritual prodding by the Catholics on this website. They were the first to suggest to me the line, “if it weren’t alive, we wouldn’t have to kill it.”
So, it is a spiritual response rather than a biological response.
Preserving embryos in a freeze, waiting before their inevitable death is to me a moral horror. Because it is to beg the question of their humanity, just as the Spanish on Hispanyola did about the question of the humanity of the Indians.
Preserving embryos in a freeze, waiting before their inevitable death is to me a moral horror. Because it is to beg the question of their humanity, just as the Spanish on Hispanyola did about the question of the humanity of the Indians.