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The big problem in this issue is that some people , mostly from religious beliefs, want to impose as a fact that a bundle of some still undifferentiated human cells would have the same status of a human being. So these people believe that using these cells would be the same as murdering a human being..... Best, Joao Carvalho FrankandTeri wrote: >Another way to put it would be that human life exists before conception, we >are all alive. A specific individual human life does not. > >Life of a specific individual cannot begin before conception since a >specific sperm must be combined with a specific egg and the DNA combined >before all the building blocks of that specific life is formed. > >Once the DNA is combined and the specific characteristics of that individual >are set by that combination it is hard for me to see where that life began. >There is the potential for many lives at all times based on the number of >eggs and the amount of sperm on earth alive today. Boys that's mind >boggling... > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Joao Carvalho" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:40 AM >Subject: Re: stem cell research/Fink/in vitro clinics > > > > >>Wendy Siegel wrote: >> >> >> >>>Actually, as I have written before, I BELIEVE that life begins at >>>conception as well. I guess I should have written "...we can't all agree >>>on when life begins". >>> >>> >>> >>Well said , >> >>"...we can't all agree >>on when life begins". >> >>One cannot have an embryo if the used spermatozoid is dead, or the if the >> >> >used egg is dead, both cells must be alive and so ones conclusion is that >the life begins before conception. > > >>Best, >>Joao Carvalho >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn