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Playing God
libfemme ( 03/04/2004, 03:17:49 )An embryo is not a fetus. In medical terms they both have precise definitions. A human embryo starts from the first division of the zygote (the fused egg and sperm)and therefore can be as small as 2 cells. After the 12th week the embryo becomes a fetus.The stage when stem cells are taken is the first day or so after division starts, the time before an embryo normally would be implanted in the womb if it were artifically inseminated. In nature it takes about 3 to 5 days after conception before a fertilized egg attaches to a womb. Only when an embryo attached to the womb is it medically called a pregnancy. Why? Because about 50% of fertilized embryo's never attach and so end up flushed out of the female's system with the next menstrual cycle. Therefore doctors won't tell a women she is pregnant until at least 2 weeks after her period is overdue because only then is it clear that the embryo is not a dud. Again, this is what happens in natural fertilization. Only about 50% of naturally fertilized eggs develop into a live birth. The other 50% of the time the woman/couple has to wait another cycle to try again.Stem cells are taken from an embryo of about 100 cells, in the first day or two before implantation in the womb is normal or even possible. The cells are unspecialized, and look like a ball, similiar to a colony of microscopic volvox.Who decides who is going to be cloned and who not? Well, who decides who is going to have a baby and who not? Presumably the couple who decide to have sex. If a person wants to clone themselves or anyone else they will have to:a. come up with about $100,000 for lab and doctor fees (this is comparable with what it can cost for invitro fertilization.) b. be prepared to support, raise, educate and take care of a child, just as any parent is obligated to do.To say that God alone decides who has babies is to ignore the moral choices and responsiblities of the parents involved. Teenagers can't say, it's not my having sex that caused this child. It's all God's responsibility.If having a child is Playing God, then every parent on this planet has played God.
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