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Somehow I find it difficult to accept that leaving unused embryos left over after invitro fertilization procedures frozen in liquid nitrogen is not any different from...

Last time I checked, being frozen in liquid nitrogen does not "directly benefit the embryo." Moreover, if I was a frozen embryo stuck in liquid nitrogen never to be used again or just destroyed, then I would most certainly want to donate myself to science and give up my stem cells. But then, an embryo is just an undifferentiated ball of cells and there is no potential for human life unless the embryo is implanted in a woman's uterus. Sometimes I really wish that people who make statements like the one quoted above would spend some time taking a few biology courses before they go off on their crusades. Certainly, using the cells to potenitially help someone is more ethical than simply destroying these left over embroys. But then, enough ranting for now.

NHE

When I was in college I took a whole mess of biology courses. It was kind of required as my major was Health Science. One thing I did learn, is that embroys DO spontaneously abort on their own. Heck, there isn't even a guarantee that a fetus won't miscarry.

OK. Now I have made this far too politically charged for such an otherwise amiable forum.

Yes, enough ranting for now.