A Little Known Fact

Think you know about those "frozen" embryos? Might wanna think again. These little things could be curing people.

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News & Politics

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• stem
• cells
• sex
• fertility
• clinic
• embryo
• death
• cure
• massacre

[gregcb]

Umm, what's the point? What else are you supposed to do with medical waist? Maybe Focus on the Family should use their millions to buy up all these expired cells and pay for christian funerals for all of them. Wouldn't that be the rigth thing to do?

[9fp]

Nobody in the national debate referred to them as "medical waste". As a matter of fact, nobody referred to trashed embryos at all. All you heard about was some drivel about 400,000 "currently in frozen storage that would otherwise be discarded". Well, aside from them, here are another 350,000 embryos being trashed every day - 1,000 embryos every day into the biohazard waste bin.

So that's the point. Get itf?

[Lucyisfive]

@McCanneFAM

There is a HUGE difference between an established pregnancy that your mother had (you), and an EMBRYO that has not implanted in a womb. Your mother likely lost at least a couple "embryos" whilst trying to get pregnant (statistically anyway) because the vast majority of all human conceived embryos are simply not viable no matter how they are created or nurtured. Yes, embryos are "life", but they are not babies, but rather embryos that are potential babies.

[Lucyisfive]

@McCanneFAM

Embryos are not babies, they have the amazing potential of living human cells to become babies if everything goes right. But embryos are not just "small babies", they are embryos with the potential to grow into a baby.

[Lucyisfive]

@AFactADay

Being a "living cell" doesn't make an embryo a "baby". Yes, live cells, are "alive". Sperm cells are "alive" too...but they are not babies either. The miraculous combination of living sperm cells and living egg cells become living embryos...but they are still, not a "baby" yet...not until they impant into a womb, continue to thrive. Think about it.

[ProcrastiBrowser]

no guys, jumping forward in the field of medicine substantially is no where near importing as keeping the %#@$ pro-lifers quiet for a few minutes.

[Lucyisfive]

No, sadly, an embryo is NOT a "little baby", if they were all those infertile couples using IVF would be dancing with joy since they would have "babies" then if they had any embryos.

[Lucyisfive]

400,000 embryos frozen across the US are not being thown out every year. There are that many frozen in total, yes, but they are being stored and almost 90% of them are being saved for future family building attempts by those who created them. I agree that those families who decide they are not going to use them for their own family should be able to decide if they wish to donate them for sem cell research, and that should be allowed (or to donate to another family, or to discard if they wish).

[AFactADay]

Thankyou, McCanneFAM. You make a good point.

[AFactADay]

An embryo is not a baby? Ohh really, sherlock!

An embryo is a human life. It is living. It's a LIVE cell.

Stopping something from living is the SAME as killing.

Think about it.

[McCanneFAM]

Even though I was an embryo conceived inside of my mother's womb instead of a petri dish, my life.... yes LIFE..... was precious to my mother. She fought to keep me safe andd healthy both prenatal and postnatal -to me, there is no difference. It's tragic to me that there aren't more people fighting for the rights of these little ones who cannot fight for themselves. They are life at it's earliest stage.

[anachroeden]

An embryo is not a baby. A baby is a postnatal stage of human development. An embryo at this stage has none of the vital systems necessary for determining human life on any clinical level. Anyone with the vitals of an ex-utero embryo is clinically dead. Any parent of a dead child may donate their progeny to medical science, including, thankfully, IVF ova donors.

Of the hundreds of thousands of discarded waste embryos annually, only 100 or so have ever been adopted. What a waste of potential.