Where is the GOP outrage? I actually went through four IVF attempts and countless IUIs before becoming pregnant. I am very aware of how eggs are harvested and "bad looking" embryos discarded.
It is interesting that this has not come up yet.....
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President Bush and other Americans who oppose embryonic stem cell research say they believe that the destruction of a human embryo, even in the process of research to reduce human suffering, is immoral. It is immoral, they say, because human life begins at conception, therefore destruction of a human embryo equals the taking of life.
Curiously, opponents of embryonic stem cell research raise no serious objection to fertility clinics, the source of the embryos used in embryonic stem cell research. At fertility clinics, many human eggs are routinely removed from women and fertilized in the hope that one of the resulting embryos can be implanted in the uterus and produce a baby. Some of the unused embryos are frozen for possible use later, but most are discarded.
If scientists performing research on cells derived from the early cell division of human embryos are taking life, the fertility clinics are guilty of repeated massacres. However, no one has introduced legislation to ban the technique used by fertility clinics because the clinics' services appeal to the many couples who have difficulty having children.
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President Bush, who cannot explain why it's OK for popular fertility clinics to destroy unused human embryos but immoral to use those unneeded cells to reduce the pain and prolong the lives of millions of sufferers, should resist his temptation to veto the bill and, instead, sign it into law.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/4053084.html