Right off hand I'd say you have a very smart Grandson.
Must be a chip off the old block?









At 12:08 AM 11/20/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Attention: PIEN chat room readers:
>The following speech was made by a fifteen year old discussing the ethical
>dilemma of stem cells from an embryo. It sums it up, in simple terms, better
>than most summation articles I've seen!
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>Â  Â Â Â Â Â Scenario: A woman really wants to have a child but because of
>her
>genes and chemistry she isn't allowed to by nature. Â  So she seeks
>scientific
>help. Â  They take her through a process called in-vitro fertilization, which
>is when she has dozens of her eggs removed and fertilized inside a petrii
>dish and then reinserted into her womb, and she is able to have a child. But
>what is to be done with the left over fertilized eggs since she couldn't
>possibly have used them all? Throw them away or experiment on them so that
>scientists can find cures for diseases that never had a cure? This is a major
>controversy that pro-life people argue with scientists about When it comes
>down to it, what is the ethical thing to do? Â  What is the right decision?
>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Scientists experiment using certain cells called stem
>cells by
>removing them from the fertilized eggs. Â  The special type of stem cells
>that
>are extracted are called pluripotent cells. They are cells that can be
>directed to become any type of body cell though they can never be created
>into life if inserted into the womb. Â  After they placed in a designated
>area, they multiply and become the cells that they are told to be and
>potentially cure a certain disease.
>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Some of the advantages of doing this research are as
>follow. Â  The
>cells theater used are ones that will potentially be incinerated or destroyed
>in one ay or another. Â  If these cells are used, then its a high percentage
>potential for a cure for certain diseases and could potentially vivify the
>sick. Â  It can also lead to potential cures for other diseases. Â  Pro-life
>should be called pro-stem cell research!  Instead of creating only one life,
>if the unused eggs were experimented on, they would allow for the aid in
>saving many lives. Studies have shown that more than 10% of the population
>would benefit if the research proves successful. Example: You are diagnosed
>with severe congestive heart failure. Your doctor admits you to the hospital.
>During an operation later that day, she injects some stem cells into your
>heart forming new heart cells, and after an integration period of a few days,
>your heart is substantially healed. You integration and lead a healthy life.
>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  But on the other hand, rather than killing the possible
>life, we
>should consider saving it to create one later if the woman wants another
>child or if it should be donated to couples unable to have children. It could
>be considered a type of abortion if they use it for experimentation. (The
>woman has the eggs fertilized and capable of having a child born from them
>and then killing the cells by experimenting on them.)Â In some minds, it
>seems
>more humane to incinerate them rather than make them “guinea pigs� in
>labs.
>  People find the experimentation completely atrocious. So there's more
>reason for debate and it does seem more ethical to not do the research. Â
>Either way, one should look at the large picture instead of the small one.
>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  The benefits from the experimentationseem to greatly
>outweigh the
>cons of it. It has proven more beneficial than saving the egg just to create
>one single life. Â  It could also fuel future research and give other
>ideas to
>find different approaches such as creating a stem cell, which would end the
>debate completely. Â  But that takes research. Â
>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  But whether it be ethical or not, their search is
>probably better
>for our future by helping to save hundreds of lives from disease that may be
>because of this research. Â
>
>What does his Grandfather say?
>Grandpa says:
>"Research is a blind date with knowledge.
>Come, let us welcome the bride with flowers."
>Sid LevinO

just me,
Marjorie
68/58/55

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