Yale Daily News

Drs. Redmond, Vaccarino et al.:

I cannot believe that human living embryos will be sacrificed on your altars in the name of research when you recognize the incontrovertible saying that "the end can never justify the means," which suggests in your case that you are so eager to help mankind that you discard the lives of human beings, knowing full well that these lives were not created for your experimentation but for the Almighty, whom you will some day face.

Dr. Robert N. Schwartz
Director
Stem-cell Research Group
Houston, Texas

is this a joke? have you seen an embryo? it is clearly not a person, and certainly not created for your "almighty" p.s. how many people are being killed each day in iraq to please your "almighty?" and how much of the environment is being burned down in "his name?" get real

DEAR SIR,
The lab specimen test tube human embryos you are refering to have been used in medical science and are recycled and reused as stem cells instead of being totally wasted and tossed in the trash(rubbish) at fertility clinics when they are not used by the woman in treatment. For more than twenty or thirty years since the first, then called infertility clinics, opened for women, millions of surplus, left over or inferior lab specimens of human embryos have been simply discarded as medical waste. No one objected or considered that immoral. Or called those doctors or woman or researchers murderers, until medical science found a way to study and reuse them to discover more about how these tiny building blocks of human cells really work. Medical doctors studying human anatomy using dead bodies were criticized by religious and legal authorities years ago too. This is the same type of rediculous historical trumped up personal objection to advancing science and our medical knowledge, so help me GOD. Please give our dedicated doctors the power to overrule the blind scientific ignorance of some arrogant know it all people who assume some men are like Gods and have actually created human life in a lab test tube. Without the natural sexual union of a man and a woman or any womb to place it in for its future growth and survival, it absolutely is not a real person yet. It has potential as a human by-product that is still being wasted, if we were better Christian sheperds and stewards of the vast number of these unwanted human cell resources, all surplus lab specimens from fertility clinics would be legally donated to medical science instead of bought and sold privately now like any other human commodity for a profit. There ought to be a simple law just like we have for donating human body parts after death on our drivers license. That would solve most of the human ethical issues for most reasonably well educated people, then we could focus on more important diplomatic lifesaving issues like the unjust death and total destruction of innocent lives in Iraq or from domestic violence and drunk driving in our own communities. I am quite sure "The Almighty" wants us save more real ordinary women and children's lives in our world today, not listen to quibbling for years (by powerful male elite who have nothing better to do) over their personal beliefs about two tiny pin size human cells artificially placed together in a test tube by a man. It wasn't the Almighty who did that, although some idiots today might think...the woman or her doctor might even be committing multiple murders if, after about two weeks in the lab it divides itself and turns into potential triplets LOL
IT still has no neural brain cells, so thought or self reflection is impossible. AND, isn't the old religious standard doctrine about the natural "moment of conception" being the moment of "ensoulment"? How on earth can you imagine any personhood or ensoulment without any ability for human thought or self-reflection? The "I think, therefore I am" is the definition of what being human means to most people and theologians. If preachers would give up some imagined powers they think they have and stick to preaching what they know about people from "the womb to the tomb" instead of trying to control everyone else and all women's bodies we certainly would all appreciate their appropriate human counsel and guidance much more. Several major religions believe that their God is the only GOD, Does anyone know who's side he is currently on for sure? LOL What if they all have the same GOD and men just don't realize it because of cultural man made differences in the way they practice their religion?
OK enough of my rambling thoughts and questions Ta ta for now GBYAY Anne