Now They Want To Take Embryos From Dying Children And Mentally Incapacitated Adults Without Consent...?

how long before they start marching the unemployed and the elderly off to have their organs removed .... where will it end?

I believe that everyone has the right to give or refuse consent and if, as in this case, a child is unable to (or a mentally incapacitated adult) then the procedure should not go ahead. Whilst I deeply sympathise with the need for research to be done, our rights as human beings should not be ignored. This is just another step towards dictatorship.

i am sure that many of the things that we take for granted in medical science today were viewed in the same light 30 years ago in the same way that jehovas witnesses think that blood transfusions are against gods will, but do we see these things as abominations.

if most people knew the ins and outs of medical research, they probably would not be happy about ethically questionable procedures such as vivesection etc ... but this does not mean it is not legitimate, but it depends on your moral standing - i personally value humans above animals, and i value the living above the dead.

of course - this is the conundrum, because some people could argue that logic would condone treating the able bodied over the disabled, the young in favour of the strong and then you are entering into Nazi territory with the aryans vs the degenerates

I honestly think you have misunderstood what is proposed. The article talks about taking some skin cells from children dying of inherited diseases.

You cannot remove an embryo from a child, there is no embryo to remove. Only an adult female who has conceived will have an embryo inside her.

It is not done without the consent of a competent patient. Hopefully it will go along way towards helping us understand more about genetic diseases and how some people are born mentally handicapped. It is not some science fiction film where it is done to create a super race of human beings without the consent of the patient. It is done so that we have more medical understanding.

Some of the last posters have echoed my sentiments exactly. You can't extract an embryo from a dying child unless that child is female and pregnant. Pregnant females are the only ones carrying embryos.

Few hundred years ago 'scientists' would have been burnt at the stakes for carrying out an autopsy. Luckily there are some forward thinking people who don't see it as some form of frankenstein's sci-fi thing. It is called advancment in the medical science. Just think about it: we wouldn't be able to treat some life-threatening conditions so easily now if it hadn't been for those few daring people who did do some illegal autopsy back in those days...

This new thing might seem frightening to you now just as it was so frightening for those people back in the dark days when autopsy was the latest evil.

Huh???

No, you're not the only one concerned. I think a lot of us would have concern if we found out there was an epidemic of pregnant children or mentally incapacitated adults.

Whatever you've read, I think you have misunderstood.

i think that if this could potentially offer a cure to hundreds of people who suffer from diseases that are at the moment uncurable then it may be a good idea. I think that they should get consent though

Embryos are fertilised eggs, dying children are not pregnant, and neither are mentally incapacitated adults, as a rule.

You have twisted this article.

Reading this has made me feel sick to my stomach. I am a mother of an adult daughter with sever learning disabilities. I would fight tooth and nail for my daughter. Just because she is mentally incapacitated it should not effect her basic human rights.