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Is it ethical to use aborted fetuses for scientific research?

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  • Brosia 2012/07/01 02:27:38
    Yes
    Brosia
    They are not anything other than trash once they have been aborted, so why not? They could do some wonderful things.
  • stevie.luplow 2012/06/11 23:11:30
    Yes
    stevie.luplow
    The parent obviously didn't want them, so why not let the poor babies help in science research?
  • Charles E 2012/06/11 07:33:49
    No
    Charles E
    +1
    After aborted fetuses are used, they will start growing fetuses specifically for research.
    Eventually the age cutoff will be raised to 3, 5, 9, 30, then 99.
    Get ready for the return of Dr Mengele.
  • NoHandlebarsAttached 2012/06/10 08:09:35
    Yes
    NoHandlebarsAttached
    +1
    I'm hoping that we'll be regrowing lost limbs and organs from stem cells some time before I die, so I'm okay with anything that creates progress.
  • Jim 2012/06/10 05:13:23
    No
    Jim
    Why not every dead body be given to science?
  • greg 2012/06/09 12:56:55
    No
    greg
    +2
    would you use the body of any other murder victim
  • gvc 2012/06/09 02:54:39
    No
    gvc
    +2
    It amounts to harvesting unborn children for experiments. These are human beings, not lab projects.
  • DFA 2012/06/09 02:24:34
    Yes
    DFA
    +1
    Might as well use the fetus to improve lives.
  • TheDeadAreLiving 2012/06/09 02:09:43
    Yes
    TheDeadAreLiving
    +1
    Well if they're already aborted...why not?
  • Iamfree 2012/06/08 19:32:34
    No
    Iamfree
    +3
    I am of the opinion that a person is a person, no matter how small. I have no problem with a grown person making the decision to donate their body to science. But I think experimenting using aborted fetuses adds insult to injury. It seems barbaric.
  • Anarchico Anthony 2012/06/08 17:04:41
    No
    Anarchico Anthony
    +4
    You can do stem cell research, without using fetus's. You can get it from people's bone marrow as well. No reason to bring dead children into peoples scientific experiments
  • Jim Anarchi... 2012/06/10 05:15:26
    Jim
    +2
    Placenta and umbilical cords contain stem cells. Abortion is murder.
  • Anarchi... Jim 2012/06/10 10:56:46
    Anarchico Anthony
    +1
    I agree
  • I don't like Obama in office 2012/06/08 15:50:18 (edited)
    No
    I don't like Obama in office
    +2
    Not if it incentivizes abortion., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The Doctors' Trial (officially United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al.) was the first of 12 trials for war crimes that the United States authorities held in their occupation zone in Nuremberg, Germany after the end of World War II. These trials were held before U.S. military courts, not before the International Military Tribunal, but took place in the same rooms at the Palace of Justice. The trials are collectively known as the "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials", formally the "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" (NMT).

    Twenty of the 23 defendants were medical doctors (Viktor Brack, Rudolf Brandt, and Wolfram Sievers being Nazi officials instead) and were accused of having been involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia. Josef Mengele, one of the leading Nazi doctors, had evaded capture.

    The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal I, were Walter B. Beals (presiding judge) from Washington, Harold L. Sebring from Florida, and Johnson T. Crawford from Oklahoma, with Victor C. Swearingen, a former special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, as an alternate judge. The Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution was ...
    Not if it incentivizes abortion., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The Doctors' Trial (officially United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al.) was the first of 12 trials for war crimes that the United States authorities held in their occupation zone in Nuremberg, Germany after the end of World War II. These trials were held before U.S. military courts, not before the International Military Tribunal, but took place in the same rooms at the Palace of Justice. The trials are collectively known as the "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials", formally the "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" (NMT).

    Twenty of the 23 defendants were medical doctors (Viktor Brack, Rudolf Brandt, and Wolfram Sievers being Nazi officials instead) and were accused of having been involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia. Josef Mengele, one of the leading Nazi doctors, had evaded capture.

    The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal I, were Walter B. Beals (presiding judge) from Washington, Harold L. Sebring from Florida, and Johnson T. Crawford from Oklahoma, with Victor C. Swearingen, a former special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, as an alternate judge. The Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution was Telford Taylor and the chief prosecutor James M. McHaney. The indictment was filed on October 25, 1946; the trial lasted from December 9 that year until August 20, 1947. Of the 23 defendants, seven were acquitted and seven received death sentences; the remainder received prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment.
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  • shansera 2012/06/08 15:21:28
    Yes
    shansera
    +1
    There really isn't any difference between this and organ donation. With the great possibility of this research someday curing diseases and disabling injuries ( like spinal cord injuries) it would be an even bigger waste. Women are going to get abortions-period. I don't believe this would, in anyway, Encourage abortions. Of course the donor shouldn't be paid. Just like organ donation. May your or your loved ones death give life to someone else. What greater gift could you give?
  • I don't... shansera 2012/06/08 16:17:38 (edited)
    I don't like Obama in office
    Lady you should really go hunting some time , I really do not think you have clue what Killing means the complete other Side of What Murder is as a Male I find this most un becoming of such a Woman, you have very clearly not been shown what Love is other wise you would never agree with such things in the mannor that you write...This is the same views that becaome Hitler's sick Doctors play ground of Death..http://en.wikipedia.or... The Doctors' Trial (officially United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al.) was the first of 12 trials for war crimes that the United States authorities held in their occupation zone in Nuremberg, Germany after the end of World War II. These trials were held before U.S. military courts, not before the International Military Tribunal, but took place in the same rooms at the Palace of Justice. The trials are collectively known as the "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials", formally the "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" (NMT).

    Twenty of the 23 defendants were medical doctors (Viktor Brack, Rudolf Brandt, and Wolfram Sievers being Nazi officials instead) and were accused of having been involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia. Josef Mengele, one of the leading Nazi doctors, had eva...

    Lady you should really go hunting some time , I really do not think you have clue what Killing means the complete other Side of What Murder is as a Male I find this most un becoming of such a Woman, you have very clearly not been shown what Love is other wise you would never agree with such things in the mannor that you write...This is the same views that becaome Hitler's sick Doctors play ground of Death..http://en.wikipedia.or... The Doctors' Trial (officially United States of America v. Karl Brandt, et al.) was the first of 12 trials for war crimes that the United States authorities held in their occupation zone in Nuremberg, Germany after the end of World War II. These trials were held before U.S. military courts, not before the International Military Tribunal, but took place in the same rooms at the Palace of Justice. The trials are collectively known as the "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials", formally the "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" (NMT).

    Twenty of the 23 defendants were medical doctors (Viktor Brack, Rudolf Brandt, and Wolfram Sievers being Nazi officials instead) and were accused of having been involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia. Josef Mengele, one of the leading Nazi doctors, had evaded capture. Look it up,

    http://www.educationnews.org/... Autistic Student ‘Electric Shock Treatment’ Case In Court , So let me guess you would agree with this next clip to be Ok in light of say http://youtu.be/2h6QX-7EW2Y .
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  • I don't... I don't... 2012/06/08 17:59:06 (edited)
    I don't like Obama in office
    Posted in respect of D-day that just pasted , If people only understood the hell of what it even took to given the world Abortion Pills''
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?... ,
  • shansera I don't... 2012/06/08 19:33:11
    shansera
    No, I'm not crazy sir, you can take your Nazi crap and shove it! I'm an ICU RN that cares for people who are dying a slow painful death due to all kinds of illness that we have no cure for and just maybe stem cell research could help these children and adults. You tell me I need to go hunting sometime? Why don't you go sit at the bedside of one of these children and tell them and their parents, desperate for a cure, they and their doctors would have to be Nazi's before they hope to see 18 years old.
  • I don't... shansera 2012/06/10 23:10:28 (edited)
    I don't like Obama in office
    It would be nice to be able to pass a law to keep people like you from working as a RN. Lady your sick in the head you don't ,murder a Defense-less Unborn baby to cure or find..desperate cures, Somethings are not meant to be , and your views show me the medical review board should find a way to fire you ass
  • shansera I don't... 2012/06/11 15:03:53
    shansera
    Your not that bright are you? The question was should aborted fetus be used for scientific research. The fetuses ARE ALREADY DEAD!!! the question was never should we abort babies to do scientific research! U have your head so stuck in the sand you can't even read the question correctly! U talked about hunting before, when you go hunting do you leave the animals body dead on the ground or do you pick it up, take it home, say grace to God and thank that animal for its sacrifice so YOU and your family may be nourished and live on? Or because its dead its no use to you now?
  • I don't... shansera 2012/06/14 05:42:34 (edited)
    I don't like Obama in office
    Note I was answering the views you wrote seaming;y backing A Woman being helped To have a Abortion either the use of a morning after or late term etc...oxymoron ...Women are going to get abortions-period. I don't believe this would, in anyway, Encourage abortions..your joking right. Such implying its Ok to use the Body for science, That would be wrong unethical and if such was backed by law backed by congress the elected power of the league of common defense when as such the place for such by such was for the defense of life making such Direct criminal Congressional constitutional contempt,,

    Encourage abortions...If the Act is supported by law those that seek will find it , The Woman would be backing the Action to help the doctors refine the action by seeking to let them kill the child , Lady your sick
  • shansera I don't... 2012/06/14 14:12:43
    shansera
    +1
    I'm sick?! You applaud a man who shot and killed someone in cold blood, with many people around who could have been killed also, and I'm the one who is sick! You talk all high and mighty how "murder is murder" but this is not?! YOU are without a doubt the sick and evil one. I can respect your opinion (without getting verbally abusive, like you have done to me) but that is too much. I could never respect someone who thinks a killer is in some way a hero. I won't waste anymore of my time debating morality with someone who is as disgusting as you!
  • I don't... shansera 2012/06/14 16:10:29 (edited)
    I don't like Obama in office
    Have nice A day. Thanks... . I see I was able to make my point!...Game theory works, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
  • shansera I don't... 2012/06/08 20:44:18
    shansera
    These fetuses are ALREADY dead!!!! I never said that fetuses should be killed for research. So you think that the fetuses would be better off in a garbage can?!
  • I don't... shansera 2012/06/14 06:30:30 (edited)
    I don't like Obama in office
    No "Not if it incentivizes abortion" No
    The doctor's oath is 1st do no harm

    As we know many states still let such abortions happen
    To Answer the views

    , If the life was ended by the Act of abortion if it was of no harm to the mother life ,no... babies can be taken from the mother at about 5 mouths from what have heard and or been told...again No if it was just because the mother did not want it and she sought out to kill the child with the help of the doctors and the doctors are so going to give the childs body to a research lab , None of witch I agree with I would say no, give the child a grave or respectful cremation,

    it should have never happen and should be out law-d

    Personally I think this fellow answered the prayers of the crys of the ones that could not fight back.for the Leadership of the league of common defense in place to protect life and or the well being where they failed he step in....Goood Shootten Fellow He will never Do it again, I think this man should be freed, George Tiller Killed: Abortion Doctor Shot At Church
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com...

    The view of organ donation. as I am on the list for such or was. is not set up to take life to help life,== to point out the view of this matter of the use of aborted babies for science as if like the mother and chil...
    No "Not if it incentivizes abortion" No
    The doctor's oath is 1st do no harm

    As we know many states still let such abortions happen
    To Answer the views

    , If the life was ended by the Act of abortion if it was of no harm to the mother life ,no... babies can be taken from the mother at about 5 mouths from what have heard and or been told...again No if it was just because the mother did not want it and she sought out to kill the child with the help of the doctors and the doctors are so going to give the childs body to a research lab , None of witch I agree with I would say no, give the child a grave or respectful cremation,

    it should have never happen and should be out law-d

    Personally I think this fellow answered the prayers of the crys of the ones that could not fight back.for the Leadership of the league of common defense in place to protect life and or the well being where they failed he step in....Goood Shootten Fellow He will never Do it again, I think this man should be freed, George Tiller Killed: Abortion Doctor Shot At Church
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com...

    The view of organ donation. as I am on the list for such or was. is not set up to take life to help life,== to point out the view of this matter of the use of aborted babies for science as if like the mother and child say died in a car reck and she was on the list that does not give right to use the body unless the Father or say family gives the rights then the use of the body for science has not caused the harm to end the life.. or if the Child died at birth the families decide to give the child's body up for science again the Doctors did not cause the end or harm
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  • I don't... shansera 2012/06/14 19:09:15 (edited)
    I don't like Obama in office
    Gruesome photos put spotlight on China's one-child policy , You could always move to china you seam like you would fit right in... http://behindthewall.msnbc.ms...
  • janice.... shansera 2012/06/16 13:08:43
    janice.ridge3
    So then should we have "farms" for creating and harvesting human body parts? Should somebody start a business where young women go to be continually impregnated for the one purpose of harvesting the unborn child? The thought makes me sick! A fetus is a human life, with a soul and spirit and a physical form, not a thing! No where have I ever seen or heard that this type of thing is ok, ever.
  • Solomonster 2012/06/08 15:09:34
    No
    Solomonster
    +1
    Probably not. But a lot of scientific break throughs are made through unethical practices.
  • darlenedoskas1969 2012/06/08 13:49:00
    Yes
    darlenedoskas1969
    +1
    ... provided the donor gets no compensation
  • Flowers 2012/06/08 13:25:37
    Yes
    Flowers
    +2
    But there should be no monetary reward for participation whatsoever. The option should not even be given to a pregnant mother until after all the necessary paperwork for the abortion procedure is completed (I'm assuming the mother has to sign papers accepting the procedure and acknowledging the risks and alternative options)

    I see nothing wrong with using the aborted fetus for research if it's done carefully. There is a thin line between research and unethical practices which I feel many ignore when it comes to animal testing. So many are all for testing on animals, but hypocritically don't want humans to be tested on.
  • Ira 2012/06/08 12:18:29
    Yes
    Ira
    +1
    You mean sanctity over science? Science and knowledge rules.
  • jennifer.wales.104 2012/06/08 12:05:52
    Yes
    jennifer.wales.104
    +2
    Alot of good can come from such research like stem cell research and such but I would have to say for me it depends on how big the fetus is.
  • Anonymouse BN-0 ~bibbityboo~ 2012/06/08 09:59:22
    Yes
    Anonymouse BN-0 ~bibbityboo~
    +2
    As long as the parents consent. If you can harvest organs and conduct medical research on a dead person, who not a dead foetus?
  • Lonely girl 2012/06/08 09:25:11
    No
    Lonely girl
    +1
    I'm not so sure on this one. I kind of torn between wanting to find cures for diseases and not really wanting to encourage abortions for the sole purpose of experimentation.
  • whateverbabynevermind 2012/06/08 09:02:47
    Yes
    whateverbabynevermind
    I don't know if I'm biased though, as I want to donate my remains to science when I die, I just don't see the reason to have to be buried.
  • diana.dianapopescu 2012/06/08 08:48:41
    No
    diana.dianapopescu
    No!No! No!
    when something is dead ,must remain so!
  • Assassi... diana.d... 2012/06/08 12:09:24
    Assassin~ Badass Buzz Guru
    +1
    Trust me, it would still be dead.
  • Willie 2012/06/08 06:51:22
    Yes
    Willie
    +1
    I'd rather see medical waste being used for a constructive purpose than see it wash up on the beaches of New Jersey.
  • polkastria 2012/06/08 06:27:29
    Yes
    polkastria
    +1
    If the person who had the abortion says yes.. then yes it's fine.
  • Katte_bellaqva 2012/06/08 05:53:55
    No
    Katte_bellaqva
    +1
    Or maybe it is but the real thing here is that the shouldn´t be abortions because it´s murder!!! unless it´s for a natural cause! And with the parents consent

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