Originally posted by EviscerationX
Exactly. This topic is very scary. What if an egg that has the potential to become human was instead turned into a friggin\' hand or muscle tissue for somebody who lost a body part in a car accident. Body part, or living human being? Who\'s side are you on?
If you want hypothetical situations I\'ll pose one for you;
What if your 16 year old daughter is driving in her car and a drunk driver runs a red light and smashes into her car leaving her a quadrapelegic, in a wheelchair for the rest of her life, and dependent upon others for the rest of her life. 16 years old.
Would you be willing to put an arm around her and say;
"Honey, I\'d love for you to be able to walk again, to be able to use your arms again, to lead a normal human life, but I feel that this:
that doesn\'t have a name, doesn\'t have a brain, doesn\'t have a heart, doesn\'t have a nervous system, and has been cloned millions of times in a lab from identical ones, is more important than you."
If you can say that then I respect your opinion (honestly), but for me that\'s the bottom line. Last summer I volunteered in the Alzheimer\'s ward of the nursing home where my mother works. Alzheimers is a f ucking evil sickness - I saw one guy there who fought in WWII, protected this country and he couldn\'t even tie his shoelaces. Every day he would get up, brush his teeth, get dressed slowly and then just sit at the side of his bed staring at his shoes until I came and tied them for him, and every ****ING DAY he would ask me what my name was and say that I looked familiar. He died last fall. To me, that guy is was important than a bunch of cells, and that\'s just one disease that could be cured. My mother wanted me to go back to volunteer this summer but I couldn\'t - it\'s too depressing and I still don\'t know how my mother does it day in and day out.
I\'m sorry if I\'m getting sensationalist with my post but this is something I feel strongly about - yet I understand and respect others\' opinions. However we in the western world spend so much money on **** like weapons, and our research dollars go to sh!t like Viagra, while millions of starving die every day. And then when we have a chance to cure diseases, to do good everyone says that life is sacred - yes it is, but what about the children that are dying of starvation while I write this tirade? I care about the people that are HERE and NOW, not a microscopic bunch of cells cloned in a lab.
