Is it ethical to use aborted fetuses for scientific research?

I think it is for a good cause.

Why not?

I'm against abortion, but once the deed is done, some good should be made of it.

If a woman has an abortion then she loses right to her fetus. It should be used for science and to help research cancer and other illnesses that would help humans. I would never encourage abortions, but the fetuses are going to be thrown away into the hazardous waste anyway. Why not let the babies do something for the good of humanity? They were already unwanted by their crappy creators.

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Oh and..
If an abortion is murder then masturbation is genocide, and having sex for pleasure rather than reproduction would be a sin as well (:

So the question of ethics can be interpreted in so many ways...

I think people are and should be free to do with their own bodies as they please.

Oh and your logic is very flawed. Masturbation doesn't include fertilization.

What contributions do you think that doctor Mengele really made to medicine? Name a few? A few that we're independently verified and scientifically controlled.

For the love of.. There, there, no need to get defensive :)) That was clearly a deliberately trivialised exe.

Anywho, I am really not here to exchange harsh words hun, sry.

I simply don't see a point in condemning someone else's choice.

Google is your best friend...
it was inhumane but it has had an impact on medicine, whether we like it or not

There were no harsh words. I asked you to name some of Dr. Mengele's contributions to medicine. I see you cannot. Dismissed.

L O L.. Go wiki..

but i also don't feel its ethical to abort a fetus in the first place.

Why not?

Taking it upon myself to find the answer to "what happens to all the fetuses that are aborted?" I wish I hadn't! I can't in good conscience say that using an aborted fetus or any part of that fetus for scientific research is right or ethical. The baby didn't ask to be conceived for one thing. For another, I found out there are massive dollars paid for aborted fetuses and so I wondered who was the recipient of all that money. Care to guess? Taxpayer money funds them as well!

Of course I believe that there needs to be strict over-sight and rules when doing so but I think there is a benefit. It's just a smaller version of adult cadavers that are used by the scientific community.

I'm anti-abortion, but if it's being aborted anyway, using its sacrifice to possibly save or improve lives makes more sense than burying it in dirt or thowing it in the medical waste bin. I mean, at this point, they're already dead. It's like the common practice of some hunters to use every part of an animal they kill so that it doesn't die in vain.

I'm also very pro-donating-organs-to-people... And my friends know that if we're stranded somewhere and I die, they have my blessing to eat me. Not like it would affect me at that point, right?

The biggest concern I would have is if research companies start paying for aborted fetuses. Then, doctors and pregnant women would have a financial incentive for having abortions, and there's the slight possibility of (very stupid) women intentionally getting pregnant so that they could sell their fetus.

Only with consent.

With given consent.

If the fetus has been donated and that because of the research peoples lives will be saved or given a high standard of life, then I believe that it is quite likely to be ruled ethical.

Even for the conservatives out there (I think it's just a tissue sample) a human body, once donated to science, can be used however the scientist wishes.

I disagree with it.

Let the poor babies rest in peace

Can't see any harm in that.

If these fetuses are going to be aborted anyway then why not use them to better the future? Make their lives worth something

While I DO NOT support abortion, if they are going to do it anyway, why not study it and see if future things can be avoided for unborn babies who have a chance at life. Again I am not supporting abortion in any way shape or form.

Said it better than I.

One should never get pregnant to use the fetus for scientific research...

I don't think that is the issue. Anyone who does something like that deserves to be put to death themselves.

Let you tell it ....

Why not?

NO!!!

Even Michael J. Fox knows that it just DOESN'T WORK!!!

Since the only reason abortion is legal is that the fetus is not "human".
If that's the case, then how could it help?

If you look at it that way, then that would be a GOOD question. But, if it has a heartbeat, its a human being.

Worms have five heart beats, are they extra human?

Really? That's just stupid. There is a HUGE difference and you know it.

Just like I know there is a huge difference between a fetus, and self functioning human being.

Yes, Ma'am.

Save us from stupidity. No one is going to argue that fetuses are human. what they will aurgue is that fetuses are people. Besides, chimpanzees aren't human, but they've been a great help in furthering medical understandings.

Save yourself from stupidity. (I'll be more than happy to stop with the insults if you will)
Fetuses are human life. And unless stopped, they will turn into a fully developed human.

There's a lot of folks on this earth with less activity than a 20-week devolping human.

Brain activity, that is.